Dear friends and mission-partners,

Let's get right to the point: we have moved to another residence in Tasiilaq and we have started to realize the expansion of the missionhouse.

Let me start with news about the expansion. We finally got the permits this week to start building the extension. This means practically that we are focusing on the expansion of the children's room starting in November. The foundation should be ready by then.

What is needed and what do we already have?

Finance
We now have about 60,000 Euros available and could use another 20,000 for the first part of the extension. That first part is about the children's room and a storage room. The second part we don't want to build until next year, which is about the meeting room, which we will almost double, so that the land is used to the maximum. For support you can use the following account.

Workers
We are in contact with a few people who already want to come. But we would like to welcome more carpenters here. It would also be good if an electrician can come.

Lodging
We have also found a place we can use for the volunteers. This house has a living room and 2 bedrooms. We will take care of the accommodation costs.
If all this appeals to you in some way, please let us know. We would love to hear from you.

Our Focus
Sometimes it's good to get our focus refreshed and straight again. Why do we do this? It's very simple. We do this because we need extra space to facilitate the Gospel. While the Gospel is free, its facilitation is not. It requires sacrifices from many people. And when there is such heart behind the work, the grace of God cannot help but be with us. He builds His church and also leads us in the practical matters of it. The sacrifice Jesus made for us is so out of all proportion, and it is His love that compels us to tell people of the Gospel. That is also why we were also greatly encouraged, that someone wanted to buy us a house in Tasiilaq, when we had to move out of our rented house.

That house is a good stopover, where some things need to be repaired and the kitchen replaced. At the time of writing this has already been ordered in Denmark and will arrive by ship in September. We are planning to build a shed there as well, as there is a little lack of space. Of course, we can use good help with that as well.

The planning for the construction of a completely new house is still in the works at the moment. In September we will also start the services again and we trust in God that we will continue to bear fruit.

Will you pray with us that this village will come to know the power and love of God?
Warm greetings!
Peter and Thinka

We are Peter and Katharina de Graaf, married since 2009. By now, we are the proud parents of three kids. Our son Joël was born in 2013 in Holland and our daughters Cora (2016) and Leni (2018) were born in Greenland.

In 2006, Peter has been in Greenland to do short term missionary work (as part of his DTS with YWAM). The way the Gospel touched the people created a desire in him to return to Greenland in the future. The work had just begun, and further discipleship was very necessary.

Five years later, in 2011, we realized that God called us to work in advancing His kingdom in East Greenland.

In September 2014, we moved to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, where we experienced a little bit of the culture, language and the existing Christian work on the West Coast.

End of January 2015 we arrived to the village of Tasiilaq, on the East Coast, where we are working since. We are thankful that Gods has send us here and enjoy sharing the good news of reconciliation with God through Jesus Christ with the people around us. It is wonderful to see God at work in the lives of a growing number of Greenlanders. We are happy that from the beginning, God has provided someone who is capable of translating our poor Danish into East Greenlandic. But it is important to us to understand the people we live amongst and to be able to reach them in their heart language. Therefor we try to learn East Greenlandic.

We love to join our Greenlandic friends in the hunting and fishing culture and are excited to learn mastering the challenges that come with that.