Look what God is doing!!!

Hello all! It has been a month since my last blog update and so much stuff has happened. This past week my parents visited and really enjoyed their stay. The weather was kind of rough though, pretty much rainy, cold, and windy every day, only one day of snow when they were here. It was really good to have them here, their first time in another country! Our international service has grown quickly in just one week. Two weeks ago we only had about 8 people at the service. This past week we had 30 show up, mostly all university students. They were from America, Sweden, Ireland, Canada, Sweden, Germany, Korea, and China. Next Sunday we will begin having our service with a worship band i've put together here to create a service with some more energy to it. Pray for us as we try to become more organized to lead people in worship, challenge believers, and open up the hearts of the non-believers. I also started one of my University classes here this week. It's a history class about the contemporary middle east and there is a big diversity of students in the class. There are people from Pakistan, Iran, Nigeria, Austria, Sweden, and me the only America. About half the class is muslims so pray that God will use me to shine the light of Christ in their lives as well. There are three people in particular God has put me in contact with who have no relationship with Him that I want to ask all of you to be praying for. A chinese girl who i've mentioned many times before. She doesn't have any type of faith at the moment, but is very interested in Christianity. We gave her a Chinese Bible for Christmas and soon I will start meeting with her to see where she is in this whole process and spend some time looking at what God's Word says about a relationship with Him. Pray for her as she is very curious! Last week I also met two guys in different places. One guy named Daniel I met on the train and me and my parents shared with him about Christ. We could see that he is really seeking truth, but he has a lot of philosophical objections to the truth's of Christianity because of some bad teachings from churches in his past. Pray for him as I continue to share with Him. Pray that God gives me wisdom so that I can exactly what to speak into Daniel's life. Also I met a guy named Anil from Nepal which is near India. He said that his parents are Buddhist, but he himself has no religion. I met him at a music cafe we had at the University where people could find out about the local churches and the ministries there, so I believe he is seeking. He seems like a nice guy, always happy and want to come to our international service so pray for him as well! Another exciting thing has been our street church ministry on Friday nights. We go out late at night on the streets of Växjö and hand out free coffee, tea, and cookies at a table we have set up just to show God's kindness and love to people. If they want to talk about God, we let them initiate the conversation and suprisingly so many people want to talk about God. Some of them are drunk and some sober, but we are still planting seeds of faith and have even had the opportunity to pray for some people right there on the streets. Keep praying that God will use this ministry and that the believing Swedes that join us will have boldness and not be shy about sharing their faith. Pray for all of us to have boldness and courage as we fight the attacks of the enemy and fight to share the love of Christ with those who have no hope!
I would also like to ask all of you to pray for my financial needs. Everything is moving forward here which encourages me that God wants me to be here at least until my permit ends in the last part of July. To be able to do that however, I need to my financial support to increase. If you have the ability to support this ministry in Sweden, it would be much appreciated. For all of you that pray, read my blogs, and support me financially thank you for partnering with me in this ministry. Your part is just as essential as what God is having me do. Thank you all very much and God bless! Let me know how you all are doing as well. Send me an e-mail to WMoody1471@musician.org. Also check out all of my recently updated pictures at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17394877@N05/.

God bless,

Adam

Beginning of the year update January 2008!

Hello all, Adam here. Sorry it has been such a long time since my last update, but I have been busy with the holidays and such here in Sweden. For Christmas I spent 4 days with my friend Johannes and his family in a town about 1 hour from mine called Hässleholm. It is a much smaller town than where I live, but it was nice to spend time with my friend and his family. They were very welcoming and even gave me some Christmas presents (Julklapp in Swedish). The Chinese girl I spoke about in my last blog, we were able to give her a Chinese Bible for a Christmas present from our international group. She was suprised that it was in her own language and was very thankful. There is nothing like being able to read the Bible in your native language, and hopefully this will help her to understand God's Word even better now. Pray for her that she will be able to have opportunities to spend time in God's Word when she's by herself and maybe even encourage other Chinese friends that she knows here at the university. For New Years I had some friends over from the international group about 7 of us total. We had a fun time cooking some foods from our home countries. I cooked some BBQ Chicken in the oven with good BBQ sauce my parents sent me for Christmas in a Christmas box. Then we watched some fireworks around one of the lakes here in Växjö which were very nice. They lasted about 30 minutes. Then we came back and watched Pirates of the Caribbean 3, well most of it. We were all starting to fall asleep about 3am and couldn't finish the movie. This Wednesday I will be having a meeting with some others here who an interested in having a more focused University aged ministry at our church. We are looking to have a monthly service for people our age with some more rockin worship music and help plug students into weekly small groups that way. Pray for me as I will be talking to the ministry leaders at my church about me starting and leading an english small group here at my apartment for university students. We will also start back up the english language service and weekly prayer walks in the coming weeks. Pray for us as we seek to have a more focused ministry within these areas and do it more with excellence following God's direction and vision for His ministry here. A few other prayer requests, at the moment I have a few specific financial needs I would like to share. One need is for the books I will be having to buy for a class at the University I will be taking. The books will costs close to $100-150 total. I am also going to study Swedish at a place called Folkuniversitet here in town. It is a 10 week Swedish language course for beginners and it costs around $135. In March there in a conference in Stockholm in which missionaries will be gathering to talk about a more focused ministry plan for Sweden and how it is has changed into a country with a large international profile and how we can meet these needs. It will be 3 day conference all in english and the costs for the conference, food, and travel there and back will be about $350. If any of you have the ability to fill these one time financial needs, I would very much appreciate it. If you do not have the ability to give, then pray for my needs and for the people of Sweden. Please continue to pray that peoples hearts will be opened to the gospel and that believers will be encouraged to live out their faith in a visible and encouraging way. Thank you all for all the prayers and support! Also, it really encourages me a lot just to hear from all of you, so you are welcome to leave me a comment on here or send me an e-mail at WMoody1471@hotmail.com. Also check out some of my updated pics I've taken the last few weeks at http://www.flickr.com/photos/17394877@N05/
God bless,

Adam

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

First week in Sweden

Hello all, this is my first post since i've been here in Sweden. I have been here 1 week and 1 day now and it is going great! The first few days were rough as I did not have a phone or internet, so I did not have any way of communicating with people here about meetings and stuff like that, but it has gotten better. God has really answered prayers as almost all of the furniture and kitchen furnishings I have needed have been given to me for free. Thankfully I have had to only buy a few of those things. I am still in the process of getting my apartment completely set up and settled in because I am still cleaning furniture and arranging stuff. Spiritually this first week has been really good.
On Thursday I went to the church across the street here called Teleborgkyrkan (Teleborg is the area of the town of Växjö that I live in and kyrkan means church), and went to a short service and a meeting afterwards of an organization called Credo that is a student Christian group. They wanted to hear what my heart was for the University and I shared that we should start once a week prayer walking at the University, praying that God will bless the campus and start opening up the hearts of the students there because at the moment their hearts are very closed to God. The student priest was there and thought this was a great idea so we prayer walked today, Tuesday, and will hopefully do so every week. We were all a little nervous doing it but I believe God used us. We will try to do this every week, so pray that God gives us courage. We placed hands on each building and prayed over the people in them.
We also had the first meeting of Växjö International Christian Fellowship, the international service that I will be leading worship for. We had more of a small Bible study time as we had 8 people show up. Although it was a small group, it went great. There were 3 Swedes, 2 Americans, 1 African, 1 Mexican, and 1 Chinese girl who is wanting to make friends and know more about who God is, so pray for her, her English name is Nancy. Pray that God will open her heart more to Him as He is already starting to do so. She seems to be hungry for him. Continue to pray for the Swedish people as this is a time in the year when everything is dark and cold feeling and people feel much more lonely during this part of the year.
Today has been the coldest day yet, it is below freezing, windy, and there is snow on the ground, so not many people get outside. I also met with the pastor for this international service and many of us met and talked about why the Swedish people are so far from God right now. It is really the whole philosophy of their culture that leads them away from God. It is extremely individualistic and self-centered culture. To actually say there is such a thing as sin here is taboo and any mention of satan our enemy is taboo even in many churches. Pray for the Swedish people that the power of God will break through and open peoples heart towards Him for a harvest among the Swedish people and international students here. Also check out my new pictures. You can get them at the link on this blog page on the left. There are a few of my first week, of me in my apartment, of the international service, and of us praying at the University. God bless!

Departure date!!!

Well the decision has been made, on November 19th I will be flying out to move to Sweden! Right now I have enough financially to live on until February. My permit is valid until July 31 next year, so i'm going on faith trusting that either God will provide the finances I need to live there for until July 31 or that He has some other plan for after that point. Pray for me that God will give me strength and boldness and wisdom. Pray for the people of Sweden. Less than 1% of the people there have any real relationship with Christ. Pray that His love will shine on the hearts of the people there and break the coldness of their hearts towards Him. Winter time is even more tough from what i've heard because of the cold climate. They are already having their first snow sometime this week in the town of Växjö where I will be moving to. It slowly gets darker and darker during winter time to where there is only around 5-6 hours of daylight and the cold makes most people stay inside and feel lonely. Pray that God will use those of us who are believers there to warm the hearts of those in Sweden with the light of Christ. Pray for me as I have so much to do within the next few weeks to get prepared. Pray that the rest of my financial needs will be met as I step out on faith to do what God has called me to in Sweden.

Decisions decisions....

This is Adam Moody and this is my first blog entry about Project Sweden. Two days from now on November 5th I will be making a decision with the head of my missions organization setting a date in stone for when I will leave for Sweden. Please pray for me as I have enough financially to live on for the next 4 months, but my permit is valid until July 31, 2008 so I'm trusting and praying that God will provide the funding to keep me there for the other 5 months. I've been patiently waiting, and sometimes waiting in frustration as well for the time to go and I believe it is either now or never, so i'm choosing now! I will try to update this blog as frequently as I can. By this blog you can journey with me in what God has called me to do in Sweden. Follow along for prayer requests and updates on happenings in Sweden and you can posts comments to me on this site as well! Also you can check out my pictures which I will keep updated regularly at this website http://www.flickr.com/photos/17394877@N05. A friend of mine just recently took pictures of the apartment I will be moving into there in the next couple of weeks, so check it out and let me know what ya think!

For His Glory,

Adam