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August

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.

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