After the busy time in October with Julian handing in his PhD thesis and several big assignments in exegesis, ethics and cultural anthropology and hardly any day of rest, we reached the end of our reserves of energy.
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Thank God for His faithful guidance and that He has provided us with so much strength and perseverance.
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Please pray for times of rest in the next weeks and that we really use them to recover and orient ourselves towards Jesus.
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Pray that we use our time wisely, let our plans been made by God and don’t burden ourselves with self-conceived stuff.

This week we had no classes in order to do research for our integrated research papers. God has put very interesting topics on our hearts which will surely be of great significance for our work in Japan.
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Please pray that Jesus gives us good ideas, guides our research and will use it for His work.

Julian’s PhD thesis is currently evaluated by two reviewers. When they finish until the 20th of November and all auditors are available, the defense (oral examination) can happen even before Christmas. Otherwise we have to wait for the carnival break. Julian has a queasy feeling about the examination, because the auditors also are allowed to ask questions about other topics in the field of his thesis and he is not that fluent beyond the topic of his thesis.
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Praise God for His faithfulness that Julian now can rejoice over his handed in thesis.
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Pray that God may guide the reviewers in their work and may set the date of the defense in a way that will glorify Him the most.
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Pray that Julian can stay calm until then having his eyes focused on Jesus and that he can prepare in the right way.

The rough time table for our spring internship in Japan is set. Thank God for this unique opportunity and the affordable flights.
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Pray for all further preparations and that we set ourselves the right goal for this internship.
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Please pray that we are able to improve our Japanese during the internship, that we can make good contacts and that we are of good use in the teams.