Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Sweden bi-monthly update early December 07

Hello All Adam Moody here again. Things have been going really good here in Sweden lately. It's been two weeks since my last blog update so I have a pretty good bit to tell. Today we did our third prayer walk at the University campus as we have planned to do it every week. It went well today and God is really using the time to open our hearts up more to what He wants to do on this campus. There is not really a spiritual life on campus. Christians are looked at as intolerant and and belief in God is looked at as being simple minded and not up with the times. The truth however is that there is a lot of hopelessness on campus. Basically 5 nights out of the week students are partying and getting drunk because they do not have hope in anything more. Pray that we will be able to bring hope to the again through Jesus Christ. Pray that God will show us the best way to build relationships with people on campus. This Thursday I will also be talking with one of the ministers at my church here about us starting a more focused college age ministry at the church which will encourage the believers and draw in non-believers with a worship service that has modern style worship music and challenging yet encouraging messages. I'm really excited about the potential for this. A few weeks ago I spoke with a girl who was a non-believer and she said she would like to come if we had something with some more energy to it like this service with a music style that relates. This ministry will give believers the chance to connect and non-believers the chance to connect to us as well. We will be bringing together the international service with the college age ministry to do this. Pray that we will be able to relate to the college students through this ministry and that we will do it all with excellence. This pas Sunday I was formally introduced to the church I am working with Ulriksbergskyrkan and they prayed for me and really made me feel welcome and encouraged me. I shared a few minutes about my hopes for the campus ministry and it went well. Another cool opportunity has come up. The ministry Passion Conferences will be coming here to Sweden in mid-May. I've gotten in touch with Passion and they are going to see how I can help out and be a part of Passion in Sweden, so pray for that as well. The is a Chinese girl here who is very interested in Christianity and I can see that God is drawing her closer to Himself every week as she comes to the services and hangs out with us. Pray for her salvation to come in God's timing as He continues to use us to speak to her. Those are all the exciting things that are happening at the moment. I thank all of you for the constant encouragement and prayer support. You are vital part of this ministry of growing God's kingdom in Sweden! Also check out my updated pics from these past few weeks at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17394877@N05/

God bless,

Adam