Sent: Tuesday, October 20
Prayer Update from
Ted & Diane Holzmann (formerly Neuburg News).
Serving under TEAM Mission in Germany
Last update sent: May 2004.
Dearest
Family and Friends,
We greet you from Columbia, South Carolina!
Many may have wondered if we dropped off the edge of the earth. Not the
case. A far better analogy is Rick Warrens: surfing the waves of Gods
grace. We have never experienced a more pressed and shaken down richness
or business than in these past months since you last heard from us. We
look forward to sharing details over the next weeks about what we
experienced and what we are doing now. At this moment we primarily want to
re-establish contact.
Right
up front: THANK YOU for not forgetting to pray for us, even when you did
not hear from us. Without Gods presence and strength, we dont know how we
would have survived.
This
is our first time in the South East. We are open to weekend visits to
those of you within a 350 mile radius. Get in touch, so we can make a
date!
THUMBNAIL
SKETCH:
Most
significantly, as one woman recently wrote: From the last letter I read I
gathered that you have worked yourself out of a job, à la the apostle
Paul. Fantastic. Yes, on July 4th the congregation in Neuburg
bid us a formal farewell. The new pastor was there for them on August 1st.
And we consider it an unbelievable privilege to have been part of this
church planting adventure over the past eight years.
The
very next week we conducted a joint baptismal service Neuburg and
Ingolstadt in which Ted baptized four from Neuburg. Ted was particularly
excited to baptize the first two teenagers from Neuburg families.
We
had already been slowly moving out of our home during the month of June.
Even while Diane was attending an intensive two-week course, RPI student,
Dan Vissani, was visiting. He got exposed to a LOT of different ministry
experiences during his few weeks in Germany, and was very helpful in
disassembling furniture. On July 3, the day before the Farewell, a team of
helpers packed the remaining furnishings and belongings into a rented
truck, and all was placed in a garage in our future ministry location,
Mainburg. There it will wait our return in July 2005.
From
July 3rd until August 28th we were…
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in Mainburg, getting to know our future team. |
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in Thailand, for a worldwide conference of TEAM Mission leaders,
marking the end of a 10 year long organizational remodeling, and
setting some direction for important issues for the next few years.
We also enjoyed a on week of vacation after the conference. |
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in Mainburg for a few brief days of final goodbyes, counseling and
disposing of our car |
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in Virginia for a week of de-compression with George & Dee
(Thanks again!) at a beautiful timeshare resort, finally to land … |
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in Columbia, SC with two days to set up housekeeping prior to
registering and the start of classes for Diane. |
