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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)

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