Holiday cheer

Well it's been almost two months since my last blog update so there's a lot to mention. First off I just want to say that God has been doing some good things in Sweden in the past months. In early December I got the opportunity to lead worship one Sunday morning at a church called New Life Gothenburg. This is a new international church in Gothenburg, second largest city in Sweden. It was really cool to get this opportunity to meet up with other american missionaries who are doing some of the same type of international ministries as we are doing in our town. Pray for their church as God continues to use them in Gothenburg. I also recently have taken in a roommate. He's a great brother in Christ from the African country of Cameroon coming to Sweden to get his masters degree. Pray for him as he is searching for a part time job to have money to live on while in Sweden, and his name is Paschal. I'm thankful to God for being able to have the extra space and resources to be able to help him. He's been an encouragement to me as every morning and all throughout the day he is singing hymns to God joyfully.
We just started up a home group meeting at my place on Tuesday nights. One night we had 10 people show up and it was such a cool international setting. We had 5 Latvians, 1 American, 1 from Cameroon, 1 from Armenia, 1 from France, and 1 from Brazil. What was really amazing is that we had a time of prayer, and we each prayed in our own native languages. We also had tacos that night and suprisingly to me the guy from France was the only other person who had actually had tacos before, but everyone seemed to enjoy them. Pray for us this next semester as we will continue to meet and grow in Christ together. Some members of our home group have had the awesome opportunity to share some with their friends about Christ and even give them a Bible for the first time in their lives. So far a muslim guy and a japanese girl, and an armenian girl are reading the Bible for the first time in their lives!
As far as the holidays go on Thanksgiving day an american girl who is an international student at the university cooked a nice thanksgiving meal so I was able to have turkey and dressing that day (remember thanksgiving is an american holiday, not celebrated in Sweden so this was a nice treat for me). I have actually had the opportunity to come home for the holidays back to Georgia. I have been home since December 16th and am heading back January 16th to prepare for all the new students coming in. This has really been a nice time to be home and relax with my family and friends and eat a few restraunts i've been missing (like Chick-fil-a and Longhorns!). Of course being in Georgia I haven't seen any snow for the holidays, but before I left Sweden we got about 6 inches over the course of a few days and i'm sure i'll see some more snow when I get back. The warmer weather here in Georgia has actually been quite nice since everytime I go outside in Sweden during this time of year I have to dress in layers. I also got the opportunity to speak at my relatives church down in south Georgia about what God is doing in Sweden. Pray that God will continue to provide the opportunities for me to share with His people about His vision for Sweden and develop more partnerships. I also just updated my pictures website, so check those out on the link to the right side of my page here!!! (I also had a really cool opportunity to attend the Japanese dinner party at the University campus. Check out my pictures of that.) I hope you all had a great holiday season and were able to remember that Jesus is the reason to celebrate not only at Christmas, but all year round. Let me here from y'all!

God blessings on your life,

Adam Moody