En Månad i Sverige

I know that this is a bit late in coming together and means that things on the blog will be a little bit backwards... but let us take a look at the month of September which I spent in Sweden.

September 3^rd Arrived in Sweden

September 4^th Råslätt's dagen (a community day of sorts in Råslätt. Met quite a few people who live there and work with OM and or the church)

Sept 6^th Welcomed to the office. Met the office staff.

Sept 8^th Attend Spåk Cafe (speech cafe) Hosted by the Red Cross to help non swedes speak swedish with each other.

Sept 10^th Attended the Living Room (hehehe) which is the youth meeting of the church that OM works with. The youth meet in the OM apartment where I happened to be staying.

Sept 11^th Church's birthday celebration. The members made cakes and gave them away to the people in the community.

Sept 11^th to 12^th Visited a church in a place called Rimforsa. We led a youth meeting on the Saturday and a church meeting on Sunday morning. The word for 'church' in swedish is Kyrka. The church that we visited is called 'Brokyrkan' which means 'The Bridge Church'.

Sept 11^th Dinner and birthday party with some of the other singles.

Sept 13^th Attended the Spåk Cafe

Sept 15^th Attended a house group (cell group) at the home of a lebanese family.

Sept 16^th to 18^th Travelled to Stockholm with Isak, David and Magdalena for a meeting about an upcoming activity with Luis i Öster (Light for the People) and Folk och Spåk (People and Speech, the name of Wycliffe Bible Translators in Sweden).

Sept 18^th Attended 'The Underground'. This is a youth centre run by the city during the week. Omers and members of the church run it on Saturday nights.

Sept 19^th Mushroom hunting :); Church at Råslätts församlingsgemenskap Kyrkan (The Parish Community Church of Råslätt). This is the church that most of the Omers in Råslätt attend. Many in the congregation are former OM ers including the pastor; Dinner with some of the singles plus a student from the university.

Sept 20^th Josephine Tan from 'Touch Nature'in Nepal visits and gives us an update on what is happening there.

Sept 21^st. Leena arrives to check out the ministry in Råslätt. We share the apartment.

Sept 22^nd Visited a house group. One family and a bunch of young people attend this one.

Sept 24^th Attended the Living Room Youth Group.

Sept 25^th Attended a meeting for the 'Vision Team' going to the Logos Hope in October. Gave a 5 minute presentation on adapting to a different culture based on personal experience.

Sept 26^th Church; dinner at Field Leader's house with Leena (from OM Ireland) and Sharaz (from OM Pakistan).

Sept 28^th Attended the Världens Chans (A world of opportunity). A missions expo at various bible schools. Done in cooperation with Luis i Öster and Folk och Spåk. I attended on this day only at one Bible School.

Sept 29^th Spent the day cleaning and doing Laundry and saying good bye to people.

Sept 30^th Last minute goodbyes and departed Sweden.