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This week saw the beginning of winter on the hills around us. A sudden change from the beautiful autumn sunshine of the earlier part of the month. It has been good to have Geoff and Isobel Carr with us this past week. Geoff has been a Counties Evangelist in Essex for most of his working life. He gave us Bible ministry each evening and with fewer guests than we had expected and once the children were safely in bed all four of us benefited from this. Thank you Geoff. The picture was taken by Isobel during a bus ride up the Feldberg.

With winter looming and the prospect of real snow have you considered a winter skiing holiday, or simply coming to us for Christmas or New Year! Also don't forget you can support us through buying our charity Christmas cards.

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"As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease." Gen 8:22

On Sunday we thanked God afresh for His faithfulness in providing another harvest season and for all the good things has given us throughout the year. A simple colourful table display gave us a visual reminder of some of His provisions. Our sermon developed the theme of God's covenanted faithfulness, thinking particularly of the apostle Paul's firm persuasion that nothing can separate the believer from God's love in Christ Jesus. Rom 8: 38-39

The pumpkin was made into a delicious soup for supper!

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This past week we were introduced to the excitements of 'geocaching' by our grandchildren. The following website will tell you all about it www.geocaching.com but in a nutshell, hidden around the globe including our immediate area of the Black Forest are numerous 'caches', i.e. containers of varying sizes containing a logbook and perhaps other objects. The exact location of each cache is pinpointed using GPS technology through satellites. To play this 'treasure-hunt' game you need a hand-held GPS receiver into which you have down-loaded from the internet the exact location of hidden caches in your area. Your GPS will then lead you to within a few feet of the 'treasure'. Our first find was under rocks in the roots of a tree some yards off a footpath through the forest and took us a least 20 minutes of searching once we had found the location!
The game can provide considerable incentive to youngsters, and perhaps those not so young too, to exercise their legs as well as their minds and experience the joys of finding beauty spots and view points in less accessible places. We hope to to able to provide 'geocaching' as an option for families holidaying with us in the future.

Of course there are spiritual lessons to be learnt from the excercise and Jesus spoke of the Kingdom of heaven being like treasure hidden in a field. Matthew 13.44

At long last we've completed another newsletter. We shall be printing and sending copies by post to many of our friends and past guests but a copy is immediately available as a 4-page pdf document on the internet. To get your copy to read and print for others to read simple click the following:

www.haus-barnabas.com/html/welcome.html

There you will find the opportunity to click on the letter-heading (also given above) and get our Autumn 2010 Haus Barnabas News. We shall be more than happy for you to print copies for others who you think may be interested in the ministry and witness of Haus Barnabas in the Black Forest.

If you are beginning to think about Christmas Cards for 2010 we would invite you to click

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You will find a selection of cards with Bible verses overprinted with our Friends of Haus Barnabas slogan. For every pack of 10 you buy at £3.50 per pack we receive £1.20 for the support of our work.

Thanks for your interest and it's not too late for an autumn holiday with us or how about Christmas or New Year!

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This past Sunday our International service was almost entirely in German. Our two British guests both had a sufficient grasp of the language to follow it well and we had three German visitors. Tanja who often joins us when visiting her mother in Todtnauberg accompanied the singing on her cello together with Phyl on the key-board. The sermon was from Jeremiah 33 1-3, which encourages us to believe that even when things look hopeless we can know that God has everything under control. We are exhorted to call on Him in our bewildering circumstances and He promises to show us great and unimaginable things which we couldn't know through human logical thinking!
Our special rated 'Autumn Uplifts' at £230 per 7 days runs from 19th Sept to 31st October and we still have rooms available! During the week 12th - 18th October Geoff Carr a retired Counties evangelist from Essex will be leading devotions each evening under the theme 'Open my eyes Lord'. Why not come and support us here and find blessing from the Lord for yourself!

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We have just completed a successful 'Reformation Week' in Haus Barnabas. The five participants took part enthusiastically in the evening sessions on our 'local' 16th century reformers, Zwingli, Bullinger, Oecolampadius and Bucer together with Erasmus who through his work on the Greek New Testament text was used by God to give such impetus to the revival of interest and study of the Holy Scriptures. We were privileged to have Canon Peter Cook with us, whose detailed knowledge of John Calvin added greatly to discussions after each evening's presentation. Visits were made to Zwingli's birth place in the Swiss Alps and the cities of Zürich and Basel. The photo above was taken outside the manse of the Swiss Reformed Church in Riehen-Dorf, Basel from where it's minister Pfarrer Daniel Holder gave us helpful information about the reformation in Basel as well as updating us on the situation within the Swiss Reformation Church today.

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Our picture this week shows Steve Morley, evangelist and children's worker in Essex UK, with a group of the children from the village who came to the Bible Week in Haus Barnabas at the end of August. Over 5 mornings he looked at five N.T. characters whose lives were changed by Jesus. The children here are binding themselves up with paper as Lazarus would have been in bound in grave-clothes! We praise the Lord that the week was successful, as far as we can measure success, and that it might be the beginning of a regular children's club.
We, Len & Phyl, have enjoyed a brief holiday break in North Wales and are now back in Utzenfeld and are today expecting the arrival of guests for our Reformation Week here.
If you haven't been to Haus Barnabas this year, or even if you have, why not consider an Autumn Uplift' with us, or even a visit over Christmas or New Year! - for details see www.haus-barnabas.com/html/seasonal_prices.html