Don and Sarah Jones

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Prayer Letter/Ministry Update

Dear Friends and Family,

On November 16th we will begin our fifth year ministering here in Berlin. It feels like just yesterday that we arrived! What a great opportunity for us to take to reflect on God’s faithfulness through those years. Many good times, many challenging times and even some hard times but in every time we have noticed God’s hand moving and sustaining us.

Many of you know that our main assignment these last few years has been to help transition Open Door from mission leadership to German leadership. Don had a very encouraging and productive meeting with the Elders and Leadership Team last Friday. They spent time praying and planning about how this transition will happen in the next few months. Please pray for Open Door as they prepare to take the reins of leadership and responsibility of the church. Pray for vision, direction and a heart that longs after God. Pray for the leaders as they deal with apathetic and unengaged members of the church.

The Feinkost ministry has their first event, a women’s tea, on Saturday November 14. Please pray with us for 50 women to attend this event and that connections will be formed with these women.

We recently had our annual Field Forum! It was a great time of spiritual retreat and growing as a team. Please pray for our future plans as a mission team as we work to “push back the darkness” here in East Germany.

Open Door’s Church retreat was also a highlight in the last month. We had a great time of connecting with each other and growing in our relationships. Open Door’s Hallo! Kids Fest went great. We had three families outside of the church visit (two of which had attended last year. Please pray that God will reveal Himself to us as we seek Him together as a church body and that our relationships with one another will grow in the light of His love for us as believers.

We have been very grateful to have a few short-term trips and visitors to the field in the last few months. God has really used teams from Eastern PA District,
our Field Forum Speaker and Wife (Jody and Caryn Bowser) and our field pastoral care couple (Bob and Judy Ether) to encourage and breath God’s love into our lives. We are so thankful for the time that they sacrificed to be here and minister to us and beside us.

Christmas is coming up quickly. Here in Germany that presents many more opportunities to talk about the hope that we have. Pray that we have many opportunities to pray and share with our friends during this season!

The family is all doing well. Dane is preparing himself to play American Football! Jenna is learning to express herself more and more everyday. Sarah spends her time running after two highly energetic kids plus ministering to families in the church and helping with the new women’s ministry! Along with ministry at Open Door, Don is keeping busy as he hands over some of his responsibilities for the mission (English Camp, interns, etc.) for when we are on home assignment next year. Please pray for health and strength for our family as we finish up our first term here in Berlin.

In His Grip,

Don, Sarah, Dane and Jenna

Prayer Requests/Answers to Prayer

In addition to the requests we mentioned above…

Pray for Reno. Continue to pray for Reno. Next week begins his last Chemotherapy session. He continues to do well, but the therapy is taking a toll on his body. Pray that there will be no more cancer and that God will send him daily reminders of His love.

Praise the Lord…Today we received our new visas! Thank you for praying.

With Home Assignment coming sooner than we can imagine here are some specifics to pray for...
*that we will finish well and strong.
*that God will give us wisdom to know whom we should invest in, and what steps need to be taken to help transition Open Door into German leadership.
*that we will find someone to rent our apartment while we are on home assignment
*that we will be able to find a car to use when we are on home assignment
*that God will begin to prepare our hearts as we minister in various churches next year.

Germany

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