Last week of April 2010

Howdy,

Keeping with my promise of promising to write blogs more often and then not really doing it, here is one of the few coming your way.

Little heads up on what is happening with the ministries here…Our liikuntkerho (activity club) for kids has only two more times left and only one of those times is actually playing. The last time will be a party in the building where our church meets to which we will invite the families of the kids who have come to play for a time of getting to know each other. We will see how many show up on May 7th for that party.

Gospel Cinema has one more time remaining. The last time will be the second part of the documentary on Calvinism. Yeah, a bit deep for a ministry outreach, but we will try to move on to something else as soon as possible. I do have an idea for a street ministry in which someone is telling a story as an artist is painting a picture on the street. There are a few variations on it, like explaining the meaning of the picture afterwards, explaining during the painting, telling the story with no painting happening. A little bit of experimenting will need to take place. There is a young, artistic couple in our church that are very positive about this idea, and I have a connection with a free church in which we might try it as well, I don’t know, I haven’t really discussed this with them.

The current project that I am trying to gauge at the moment is a inter-church prayerwalking event. I have contacted the churches that have connections with our church and a local pastor I know and informed them of the idea. I am about to write even more emails to see where we stand from which to determine time frames and preparations. The only twist I have is that we should share people between the churches to garner a sense of connectedness in the Kingdom work. I haven’t heard anything in a while, hence the task of writing emails, but I am still trying to be prayerful and faithful to this. The timing might be an issue, but we must just try it and see. I am getting enthusiasm in response, but I need to work to focus that or increase the enthusiasm level. Be in prayer for this. I have a very detailed description of this that I have mailed to the pastors of the local churches, but I need to boil it down and translate it into Finnish. I think that I will even try to walk a few routes to see how long it takes to complete. Lots of hills, lots of walking paths, gotta choose wisely.

I am going to Kouvola on Friday for a music festival called Vappugospel. Vappu is May 1st, and is considered the first real day of Spring. It is basically an excuse to get completely drunk on the streets of Helsinki. I, fortunately, will be at the concert. My favorite band is headlining and it will be worth the 15€ ticket, the 23.40€ train ticket, the 85€ hotel room, and whatever food will cost to see them. I will, however, miss the camp that Jere has put together in Kesäranta for young adults (no one under 18, or K-18). I hope it goes well, I could definitely make my way up there, but I might have to prepare to speak to and with a local church about that prayerwalking. Still up in the air. No niin. God Bless!

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