August 1--- The first Sunday of the month all different diverse culture groups were together, having communion. A great time in church today..
August 6-- Taking our son to a Church youth camp, around 70 km north of where we are living. Great place, great atmosphere and he will certainly have lots of nice memories from this camp..
Later on during evening time, picking our pastor and his wife up a the train station, driving them home and spending some nice time together.
August 7-- Driving to IKEA. Our Pastor needs things to their new apartment. Having a nice time shopping and a good breakfast at IKEA!!!
in the afternoon, fixing song books for a wedding at church.
August 8--Today we had a child dedication. Little William was dedicated to God and his parents, grandmother and friends thank God and gave their testimonies.
Pastor Terry Hoggard spoke about Strategic renewal, from Ephesians 4:17-24
Evaluate - Identify Courageously call
Establish - Intentional Decisively determine
Embrace - Integrate Passionately pursue
Interesting thoughts and a great service, followed up with nice fellowship and refreshments...
After the service we had a meeting with all the leaders from the different diverse culture groups. Great meeting!!
Time for a late lunch, going Chinese...
August 10-- Driving 70 km north of Malmo, picking our son up from youth camp. A great young vibrant service to end it all up with. Nice memories and a good time ...
August 15-- Sunday and time for our service.Peter Abramsgård spoke today, mainly from Mark 10:17-22. Peter talked about how Jesus talks to us, how he connects.
Jesus treats everyone individually: he treats you individually as a person and as an evangelisation perspective. Everyone who approaches Jesus in order to get saved is not asked to sell all their possession and give it to the poor, as it was the case for the rich young man. Likewise he did not give a ready-made answer to the question of salvation: ‘accept me as your personal saviour then you’ll get saved’…
Through Jesus in this story, we can learn that the important thing is not having a ready-made answer to all the questions people might come with, but to tell the simple truth about God and who he is. And let that word of truth convict their heart through the Holy Spirit.
A great service and nice time of fellowship with coffee ...
During the evening I was back in church, attending a big Iranian event. Lots of Iranians from all over our county and even from Denmark came. Great food, great fellowship and a great opportunity to connect..
August 21-- Saturday and we went together with our pastor to a Spanish speaking church, connected to our church for a kick of. Pastor Israel had invited our pastor and another American, Pastor Jesus for this event.It was a great evening, felt like it would never end though*S*. They didn't have a "mingle time, they had a "hugging time". Great service...
August 22-- Sunday and time for service in our church. We were all together today since our Pastor was speaking in the main hall. Speaking mainly from
Ephesians 4:17 - 5:17. Great service and great time of fellowship.. Ended up with a nice Chinese lunch.. At the evening we went to the big festival here in Malmö, visiting "Street church".
August 23-- Monday and our pastor and I did 2 radio programs, "Living hope". The radio program is back again after a summer break. Lovely.
August 29-- Sunday, a nice Sunday with Sunshine! Had a good service and our cafe was open again after the long summer break. Met some new people from The Philippines and had a good chat with Pastor Massud from Iran. In the evening it was time for a nice concert. Jubilance Singers and Orchestra from Toronto CANADA. Nice..
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Prayer Concerns
*Please pray for all the leadership in our church when we are lunching a new model
*Please pray for the International Christian Fellowship, we are soon in a new season and need of support.
*Please pray for our Pastor Terry Hoggard. He is travelling a lot, long though days.
Please pray for our Brother Rune who is in hospital, having a big bad wound on his leg that wont heal that well
*Please pray for our nice friend, Pastor Chris Harrison who is soon going to hospital, checking up.
*Please pray for our son who is in a new International school with tough studies ahead of him.
31 August 2010
1 August 2010
JULY...
July 3-- Watching the world cup with our Pastor. Good time together and a wonderful game
July 4-- Sunday service, Our pastor spoke about "Summer Rhythm/Strategic Renewall" That it is great with summer and to slow down, recharge your batteries, but on the same time open the door to:
*Stir Passion
*Shift Perspective
*Shape Plans
Great service and nice fellowship. In the afternoon we went to a 4th of July celebration arranged by "The American Women's club" here in Malmö. Our Friend and chef, Jeff Brown did a BBQ. Wonderful weather,great food and a nice opportunity to connect!!
July 10-- Wonderful and Hot summer weather. Spending all day at the harbour, with nice cool drinks and interesting conversations. Planning for the future.
July 11-- We where all together in the main hall this hot Sunday morning. A nice time of worship, followed up with a great testimony from a Iraqi guy.
Pastor Terry Hoggard continued to speak about Summer rhythm/Strategic renewal, this Sunday morning focused on Stir passion.
*Passion needs to be provoked
*Passion needs to be protected
*Passion needs to be promoted
A nice Sunday service, with cold drinks and a nice time of fellowship worth waiting for after the service..
July 12-- Monday and another hot and sunny day. During the evening we went 30 km west from our city Malmo, to visit a friend in the hospital. He just had an by-pas operation and everything went just fine. Looking good. Up and running, Thank GOD!
July 15-- Our son is now at home. He has been away up north of Sweden for 10 days. He had a wonderful time with his friend there, fishing, riding bikes, swimming etc..
Today I try to connect with a YWAM team who are here for some weeks on their outreach. Loving the spirit of YWAM.
July 18-- Sunday and time for service.We had visitors from the outreach team at YWAM Sweden this windy Sunday morning.
Sarah prayed over the team and gave us her background from YWAM, and what a blessing it's been to her.
She feels happy and blessed to have different team coming to Malmö, showing us how God is working in and around them.
Steen from Denmark told us the story of how he was saved, how he ended up at YWAM , how wonderful its been for him and how lovely i is to be among God's people.
Miriam from Uganda continued with her story back in her home country, how she was saved but also how hard it was expressing her feelings coming from a Muslim background and family.
Victoria from Ukraine was the last one, just as the others she told us her story, how she left a steady job to go in to missions but also how God provides.
It is amazing to see what God is doing, not only in these three persons lives, but in all of us.
A nice Sunday.....
July 23-25--- At our church there was a big Roma conference. People from different cities and countries attended. We went to see one of the leaders...
--- Please pray for them, for their future missions and for their leaders...
July 25--The outreach team from YWAM was back, speaking, and giving their testimonies ...
All four of them spoke and it is great to see what God is doing, to, in, for and through this people...
They talked about the blood of the lamb, The sacrifice of Jesus and how important it is for us to understand this.
We heard among others a powerful testimony about a healing from an Ukrainian team member: when she claimed her healing by the blood of Jesus after she heard a bad news from the doctor, she experience a miraculous healing.
Nice to have the team once more at our service and now we are looking forward to seeing how God will lead them....-----Please keep all this young women and men in your prayers...
July 27-- Tuesday and another hot and sunny day over here. We went to the hospital to visit a brother from our church who has a problem with his left leg. A big wound that wont heal like it should. Hopefully he will be much better soon. ---- Continue to pray for a complete healing soon...
July 28-- Discussing on gmail about a new flyer for our Fellowship, and later on during the evening chatting with a friend on Facebook. WOW there sure is many new ways to communicate.
TGIF ( Twitter, Gmail, Iphone, Facebook)
July 4-- Sunday service, Our pastor spoke about "Summer Rhythm/Strategic Renewall" That it is great with summer and to slow down, recharge your batteries, but on the same time open the door to:
*Stir Passion
*Shift Perspective
*Shape Plans
Great service and nice fellowship. In the afternoon we went to a 4th of July celebration arranged by "The American Women's club" here in Malmö. Our Friend and chef, Jeff Brown did a BBQ. Wonderful weather,great food and a nice opportunity to connect!!
July 10-- Wonderful and Hot summer weather. Spending all day at the harbour, with nice cool drinks and interesting conversations. Planning for the future.
July 11-- We where all together in the main hall this hot Sunday morning. A nice time of worship, followed up with a great testimony from a Iraqi guy.
Pastor Terry Hoggard continued to speak about Summer rhythm/Strategic renewal, this Sunday morning focused on Stir passion.
*Passion needs to be provoked
*Passion needs to be protected
*Passion needs to be promoted
A nice Sunday service, with cold drinks and a nice time of fellowship worth waiting for after the service..
July 12-- Monday and another hot and sunny day. During the evening we went 30 km west from our city Malmo, to visit a friend in the hospital. He just had an by-pas operation and everything went just fine. Looking good. Up and running, Thank GOD!
July 15-- Our son is now at home. He has been away up north of Sweden for 10 days. He had a wonderful time with his friend there, fishing, riding bikes, swimming etc..
Today I try to connect with a YWAM team who are here for some weeks on their outreach. Loving the spirit of YWAM.
July 18-- Sunday and time for service.We had visitors from the outreach team at YWAM Sweden this windy Sunday morning.
Sarah prayed over the team and gave us her background from YWAM, and what a blessing it's been to her.
She feels happy and blessed to have different team coming to Malmö, showing us how God is working in and around them.
Steen from Denmark told us the story of how he was saved, how he ended up at YWAM , how wonderful its been for him and how lovely i is to be among God's people.
Miriam from Uganda continued with her story back in her home country, how she was saved but also how hard it was expressing her feelings coming from a Muslim background and family.
Victoria from Ukraine was the last one, just as the others she told us her story, how she left a steady job to go in to missions but also how God provides.
It is amazing to see what God is doing, not only in these three persons lives, but in all of us.
A nice Sunday.....
July 23-25--- At our church there was a big Roma conference. People from different cities and countries attended. We went to see one of the leaders...
--- Please pray for them, for their future missions and for their leaders...
July 25--The outreach team from YWAM was back, speaking, and giving their testimonies ...
All four of them spoke and it is great to see what God is doing, to, in, for and through this people...
They talked about the blood of the lamb, The sacrifice of Jesus and how important it is for us to understand this.
We heard among others a powerful testimony about a healing from an Ukrainian team member: when she claimed her healing by the blood of Jesus after she heard a bad news from the doctor, she experience a miraculous healing.
Nice to have the team once more at our service and now we are looking forward to seeing how God will lead them....-----Please keep all this young women and men in your prayers...
July 27-- Tuesday and another hot and sunny day over here. We went to the hospital to visit a brother from our church who has a problem with his left leg. A big wound that wont heal like it should. Hopefully he will be much better soon. ---- Continue to pray for a complete healing soon...
July 28-- Discussing on gmail about a new flyer for our Fellowship, and later on during the evening chatting with a friend on Facebook. WOW there sure is many new ways to communicate.
TGIF ( Twitter, Gmail, Iphone, Facebook)
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