Following the blessings of our Easter Conference weekend April has been a month when God has further blessed us with four different voluntary helpers. Eunice, seen here in picture, together with Chris from Huntingdon provided invaluable help during the conference and then stayed on and achieved a considerable amount of spring cleaning both inside and outside the house in preparation for our main 2012 guest season. We are deeply grateful to them.
Then following our first helpers' return to Britain came John with Rita from North Wales. During their 10 days with us they achieved 'miracles'! Rita worked hard and with a steam cleaner on our guest bedroom carpets gave new life to carpets we fearedwould need replacing. She varied this with garden work and armed with a pair of secateurs and a small garden fork prepared the garden for another year's growth. John with all his practical DIY skills repaired several fittings and fixtures and very successfully installed a ceiling digital projector in the lounge for power point presentations and video projections. We celebrated the completion of this new facility by watching together a sermon by John Piper which brought blessing to all of us.
Please praise the Lord with us for providing these willing and capable helpers and pray that He will graciously continue to meet our needs and bless all who come into the house.
Next Thursday sees the beginning of our Reformation Week and amongst others we look forward to welcoming two participants from India. 

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We praise our Lord and Master for His blessing on the ministry and fellowship over the Easter weekend. The number of guests attending required us to accommodate some in rooms in the village (we look forward to being able to fulfill our plans for additional rooms in our roof area), and the picture shows us at breakfast one morning.
The theme of the ministry both from Dr Bernhard Kaiser, our guest speaker, and from Geoff and Len was "Faith in the risen Lord Jesus". Everything was in both German and English and in addition to the more lengthy Bible expositions we had a worship service on Good Friday morning with communion, seminar-type sessions when we looked together at various questions arising out of the Bible teaching, and a further worship service on Easter Sunday morning.

Our next structured programme is a 'Reformation Week' May 3rd - 10th, see details on our website, www.haus-barnabas.com, and it's not too late to book to join us in this.