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Love and Grace

I have totally "fallen in love" with this God tube!!! So many amazing things there!!! Go check it out but here is one great examlpe...:-) Music and pictures are powerful tools to get the message accross... We serve a mighty God!

No words are needed...

This one speaks for itself...God is sooo amazing!!! Jesus rules!!! :-)

Youth Conference- "Aeg On Käes"

Well, I am still alive, if someone wondered... I just have had so many things going on that i havent had time to steal for updating my blog...:-)

So it has been wonderful weeks with outreach, meetings, Israel day last weekend, and OUR VERY FIRST YOUTH CONFERENCE at ELU SÕNA!!! The conference "Aeg on Käes" (Time is at hand) took place this weekend. There was worship, concert, good preaching,seminars, films, games, fellowship and more... so great! Anette was singing a few of her songs and it was really amazing!!!You can check out her blog...she should have some clips there soon... :-) Ristee band had the concert and we had a Sanctuary worship night last night, which was great! I was so happy to be able to be part of the worship team, and it was an amazing feeling actually when I thought about the fact that I was standing there worshipping in Estonian!Like I so would not have thought I´d find myself here, a few years ago!:-) All of the preaching was also really good. Gunnar Kotiesen and Tom Uiga was preaching on Friday, Märt Saar and Allan Kroll on Saturday and Eino Lilleleht on Sunday.

Besides for all church things, school has been crazy, and will continue so up until Christmas, I am afraid... But God is soo good and faithful! :-) Even though it has been alot, it has been really good. Tomorrow we will have cell and next week is Anette´s last week in Estonia, before she moves back to Norway... So have to make the most out of that as well!!! But yeah, now some pics and then I am back to the studies...:-)

Sanctuary evening...

Anette singing her songs and the boys (men) playing...

Leader´s room...

The third week of October...

So then I will try to "shortly" update from last week...hmmm...so much to say about that!!! Anette and I left to go to Finland on Thursday, as I had Thursday, Friday off school... She stayed over night wed-thurs and then we left after she had been at the Christian school in the morning. We took the bus to Tallinn and then the boat over to Helsinki. In Helsinki my dad came and picked us up and then after a quick "sightseeing" in Helsinki (this was Anette´s first real time in Finland) we drove to Borgå were we met up with my mom. We then had dinner there at a Chinese restaurant and got a chance to meet up with my Amway upline Anne. I was so happy that Anette and Anne could meet!:-) It was a great and effective day! All of us were quite tired as we came to Liljendal later that night... Anette and I then had some time on Friday in Liljendal when I could show her around a little and we had time to relax before we then went on to Helsinki that evening for the first meeting at the ACTION conference... Ebi and Linnea came with us from Liljendal and it was so good to see them again!

Annie in LILJENDAL at our place...

Me and my amazing dog Funny...

Lucy and Ian Fisher was there at the conference on Friday and Saturday. The Friday meeting was good, but the best was definitely Saturday with the seminars and two meetings. Lucy preached in the morning (check Anette´s blog for detail) and Ian preached at the evening meeting at Andreaskyrkan in Helsinki. The seminar was really just sooo amazing! I got so much out of it and the Holy Spirit just really spoke to me. Ian was talking about worship teams, and the Church and so so much more, about how we need to think bigger and be creative, ect. It was so encouraging and inspiring and also to see what God wants to do more and more in and through the Chruch. I have been reminded again and again of all the things I have received that year at Hillsong, and I feel so priviledged to have received and been equipped with so much wonderful teaching and vision during that time, but also I am once again remined that the one who has received much from that one is also required much. It has been so great to see and take part of all that Ian and Lucy has been sharing, and I can just say, that they have so much to give! Cause the Christians and the Church in Europe really has to get stirred up to become alive, radical, relevant in the time we live, and when the Church really stands up and takes it´s position Europe and the whole world will be shaken! God has entrusted us with the Gospel and to share it and to really reach out to people! And as Ian was sharing at the seminar, we have to love people!!! We are loving God and loving people! We have to have a genuine love for people and in all we do the love of Christ needs to be reflected in that way! Well, I can say so much more, and yet not bring across what was said in those meetings, but it was sooo good! :-) Sunday morning Daniel Stenmark, a youth pastor from Sweden was preaching. It was also really good! And before the preaching we took time in worship and we prayed for Finland and so on. An amazing Sunday morning meeting! I was so blessed by it! :-)

Friday evening service at Fila

Anna and I... :-)

Hanna and I!!! :-)

Matilda, Hanna, Jenny and Annie...

During the whole weekend Anette, Matilda (from Jyväskylä), and I stayed at my sister´s place. We had a good time together although we didnt have that much time together (just in the mornings and evenings really). But althroughout the conference it was soo good to see friends and relatives! There is just so many wonderful people and it´s sad that it is only so often that I really get to see them. But this was a good and "effective" way to see many people and at least get a little time with the girls from Liljendal, friends from all over Finland (and Australia!), my wonderful cousins, Eva, Titti and Elin and so many more! So wonderful guys, it was so great to see you all again! Samma på svenska!!! :-) And I was so happy that Anette was with me and could share this time and meet my friends and family and see the all the places! Such and amazing weekend!!!

Anette and my wonderful cousins Elin, Titti and Eva.

Sunday service...

Second week of October...

So the second week of October was also busy but totally AMAZING!!!:-) Besides school there was HILLSONG GRACE CONFERENCE in Tallinn!!! Anette and I got to borrow Eino and Lilian´s car so we drove to Tallinn on Friday and went to the evening meeting there at Neli Pühi Kirik. That evening was soooo great with wonderful worship with the Hillsong team and Ian Fisher was preaching. It was soooo great to see them again and especially Lucy Fisher,who was my singing teacher at Hillsong!:-) I felt like I was seriously soaring on wings that evening...no actually all weekend!!!:-) It was just sooo amazing with the worship and all!!! That evening after the meeting we went out to a café with some people. It was so cool, cause I got to meet many new Christian Estonian people! :-) Both people from Tallinn, Hapsalu, and Paide-even Tartu people...:-) We had a great time. :-) Anette and I then stayed at Ülimiste Hotel, at a really nice business room that we got for half price, inclusing breakfast:-)

Tallinn by night...we never have a boring time, can you tell?;-)

Leena, Anette and I...

Saturday was seminars in the morning, and that was just amazing time! Lucy was preaching first and we had some worship before we split up into the different seminars... I attended the worship seminar with Lucy. It was good!!!:-) I was singing before all the people there as Lucy called me up as an example, so that was challenging and stretching, but still good. Anette was also called up to sing. :-) The seminars were really blessed and then after lunch in the Old Town and some shopping in town, we headed for Kalevi Sportihall where the concert was in the evening... And what can I say... THAT WAS JUST AMAZING!!! It was so many people there and it was Amazing worship that lifted the roof!!:-) And some serious jumping and praising God...it was so GREAT!!! :-) And the best thing is that there will be another Hillsong Conference next year again!!! Cant´s wait! (Or I can, but I am just really looking forward to it!!!;-) ) I am so excited to see what God is doing in this country! God has great things in store and...
THE BEST IS YET TO COME!!!!

Outside Neli Pühi Kirik in Tallinn...

Lunch time...Tom, Julia and Leena:-)

Hillsong Concert in the Kalevi Sportihall, just before it begins...AMAZING!!!:-)

First week of October...

Well, here comes some serious updates again...I will do it one week at a time...soooo much has happened and that is also why there has been no updates lately...

So first week in October... There was lots of great time in church, with friends, cell group, and that Sunday evening Ian Fisher from Hillsong Church Australia was preaching in TARTU!!! It was sooo great to see him again and to hear some serious Aussie accent!!!:-) That weekend I also got to have many friends over and we had such an amazing time together... Well, enough for a short update....here comes some pics... The first picture is from cellgroup- Beautiful women of God!:-)

Kristiina, Joona, Dima and Helina over at my place for an amazing evening:-)

Ps. Ian Fisher preaching in Salem Church in Tartu

Helina, Vivia and Liina over for dinner:-)

Blessings blessings...:-)

Wow, I have to keep up with the updating!!! Everything happens sooo fast, well or time just really flies, so I have a hard time keeping up with everything!:-)But here comes some pics of main events from last week... It includes wonderful time with Vivo (Vivia) last Thrusday, with amazing fun and creative times mostly by the piano and kitchen table...:-) You are amazing and thank you for spicing up my songs!!!;-) Love you girl!!! uups, vabandan, kas ma peaksin rääkima eesti keeles...?Eller kankse på svenska?! hehe Always full of life and joy!!! VIVO!!!

Songs songs, more songs...:-)

Then Friday was great starting with tennis in the morning. It was my first real time of playing tennis, and it was so much fun! It was an amazing cool and charming autum day and it was so cool to gather with my classmates doing sports together, not only studies..hehe Lotta from my class she is like professional and she wanted to coach us. It was so good!:-) Also it was such a lovely place, playing at Toome Hill, in that beautiful environment!:-) Such a great start of the day... 2 hour tennis, plus biking, and I could feel the effects!;-)

Tennis with my classmates:-)


Sonja, me and little Robert and Andreas

Friday evening we had youth meeting. Helari was our guest speaker. He had a good preaching about staying right before God and not getting entangeled by sin. It was such a wonderful meeting, with worship from Heaven! God´s presence was so strong and it was just amazing! I also had the honour of taking up the offering. After the meeting we had fellowship and snacks.

Helari preaching and demonstrating the sin that so easily entangles...:-)

Saturday was my study day(which day isn´t, hehe), but I also went to Põlva with Anette in the evening for the youth meeting. It was so lovely to be back there! It was first time I was back there after summer. It was so great to see everybody there! The Church is constantly changing, with both the building projects and the youth rising up more and more to be involved in everything! :-) Wonderful!!! Again I had the honour of taking up the offering and Anette was preaching. It was her last time in Põlva before she leaves to go back to Norway, so she shared from her heart, really encouraging and challenging the youth to fully pursue God and everything He has for them. It was soooo good! It was really a word in due season, and I believe the youth really took a hold of it! We all need to keep the hunger alive and pursue God more and more! I dont know about you but I am so hungry for more of Him!!! More of his preasence, more of his word, more time with him, to get to know him more and more and more!!! :-) I pray that is the cry of your heart as well! Can you imagine what happens when his children all over the earth really begins to cry out for him, to really pursue Him and when we fully dedicate ourselves to Him!!! Ah, I am sooo longing to see God move in the earth like never before! I so want to see people coming to Christ, people´s lives being changed, people being healed, restored, delivered!!! Also from this cry and desire I think my song "Fill me with your compassion" arose... But I really feel like challenging and encouraging all of us to rise up higher! God has soooo much in store for us! Let us not settle for living everyday life in the ordinary way. Let´s lift our eyes and heart to God and let Him fill us till it overflows, so that we can always walk through life looking at things from God´s perspective! It is a little bit bigger than ours!!! WOW, well, I wasnt planning to preach, but I just want to share something from my heart to yours! May God seriously bless you and draw you closer to Him, this fall. He wants to pour something new and fresh into your life! Everyday is a new and exciting day in our walk with God! Let us stay fresh and close to the Father´s heart...:-)

Annie preaching and Ennar interpreting

Youth meeting in Põlva

So yeah, continuation...hehe...Anette then came to my place overnight from Sat to Sunday. Sunday meeting was also sooo amazing! Ludmila was preaching about prayer and we prayed so much that whole meeting! It was seriously a touch from Heaven in that meeting! It´s great to see how God is moving in people´s hearts! The worship was also so good and it was so great to see Lilian back in worship again! (Well, for me that is first time, since I have not been here THAT long..hehe) It was amazing! In the evening after some hours of studying, I met up with Vivia and Liina and we went for a nice looong walk that ended up at my place for evening tea.:-) We had such a blessed time, and I am so blessed to have friends like them! You guys are amazing! I am soooo thankful for you!!! :-) I feel so blessed!!!

Annie and I in Põlva

Well well, what can I say?

As I am going through pics from this weekend, I just realize how much has taken place! Not to mention during the week! There has been cells, church, catching up with friends, youth, movie nights, and the list goes on!!! We had an amazing youth evening last Friday! This was the first time we had a different kind of meeting, with some games, simple worship, watching some film clips, and pictures on the theme of "Joy", and then we had a time more like Bible study, and not the preaching form... First there wasnt so many people, but at the end we were still quite a few gathered. We had such good time, and everybody could share and read from the Bible. It was really cool! I like it! :-) After the youth meeting 4 of us, Mona, Helina, Anette and I ended up watching a movie at Anette´s place.

Youth meeting...

Saturday I had some studytime in the morning and then in the afternoon I was invited over for lunch to Maria´s place. Or actually she was "house-sitting" a friends house, so she invited me over there and had a beautiful lunch prepared when I arrived. It was so good seeing her, cause it has been soooo long since I last saw her! She studies history and goes to another church, so I dont usually happen to see her that often. Not to mention that we both are busy ladies...;-) So it was so good to get the time with her and catch up after summer and all...

Maria fixing lunch...:-)

Then from there I had to go to my next "catching up meeting". Viktoria, one of the precious girls, came over to my place for dinner and a movie night. I had not seen her either after summer, so it was so great to see her and spend quality time with her!

Viktoria and I...(he he we didnt plan the dressing before)

Anette preaching and Julia interpreting.:-)

Then on Sunday was really special cause ANETTE was preaching!!! It was sooo good!!! She is a great preacher and I believe God has so much in store for her! He will greatly use you girl in so many ways!!! The preaching was about different seasons in our lives. So many good points and you could feel the anointing.:-) Also we prayed for Tom, Julia, Andrus and Helen as they are moving into new leadership positions in church. Julia is giving over the main youth leader position to Tom, as she now is full-time teacher in the Christian school. So now Tom is our youth leader. :-) Andrus is now in charge of worship. It is so great to see these wonderful servants moving into the things God has for them even more! You guys are so amazing!!! :-)

Helen, Andrus, Tom, Julia and Eino.

After church we went out to eat lunch at Taverna. It was so funny, cause Helina, Vivia, Anette an dI went there and as we came there Liina and her family was there. And then after a while Eino, Lilian and the boys came as well! So we were almost just church people in the whole restaurant! :-) Cool!! Here you can see some pics from that!

Helina and I

Vivia and Anette

Eino and Lilian

The Boys, Sam, Joel, Mattias..(the girls stayed at home) :-)

Weekend in Finland...

Well, last weekend I spent in Finland. It was great cause Anette was going to Tallinn to pick up her boyfriend Jostein from the airport, so I got a ride with her to Tallinn. We had a good time together, although both of us were rediculously tired..hehe We spent some time at Ülemiste shopping center before I headed to the boat...

I spent the night in Helsinki at Hanna´s place before we then went to Liljendal on Friday. It was good to be back there, to see some people, and then the wedding on saturday and so on.. On the way to Liljendal we stopped by mom and dad´s newly renovated apartment, that they are in the process of renting out...it was so nice!! Now I saw it in the finished condition...:-) some pics from there...

The kitchen and diningroom...

Well then in Liljendal I had some time visiting the old people at my summer work place. It was so good to see them again! :-) They are just so lovely and funny...they sure put a smile on your face! And it was nice to see that the oposite reaction also took place...it is amazing how "little" you can do for someone to make their day!

That same evening we also went to visit my grandparents. It was so good to see them again! :-) Have to take the chance while being in Finland...

At my grandparent´s place... (p.s. you never leave hungry...) :-)

Then Saturday went to studying and getting ready for the wedding. The wedding you can read about separately in the previous post... but here again I can say that is was an amazing wedding!

Just some pictures before the wedding...

And mom...:-)

Well, then Sunday was not much else but packing, and leaving to go to Helsinki.. Then Anette and Jostein came to meet me at the Harbour in Tallinn! It was soooo great to see both of them!!! And they then shocked me in the car...well, first I thought they were engaged when they looked so happy/full of secrets...but then they popped it out...that Jostein´s present to Anette was a trip to Barcelona in April!!!! AND the reason of my laugh/heart attack in the car, was due to the fact that he had also booked a ticket in my name!!!:-) So OH MY GOSH, WE ARE SO GOING TO BARCELONA IN APRIL!!! Again the same gang from the Italy Roadtrip!!! It is just sooo amazing!!! Sometimes you wonder how much great things God has in store for us!! And I am sure the reason that we get it little by little is that we would be BLOWN away if he just scooped down all the blessings at once!!!:-) We serve such an amazing God!!! :-) So yeah! AMAZING!!! Then we still got some wonderful time together in Tallinn before we dropped Jostein off at the airport and drove on to Tartu... Such a blessed time!!! :-)

Are they cute or what?

Julia and Oscar´s Wedding!!!

A week ago, to be precise, Julia and Oscar finally got each other!:-) It was a beautiful wedding with tones from Heaven and lots of fun and program! It does make you realise how fast time is going.:-) It doesn´t seem like a long time ago that we spent many late youth nights at the Mission´s Church in Borgå...:-) It was so great to see friends that I have not seen in a long time! I do now understand why my description in the wedding guest page was..."Jenny Djupsjöbacka, daughter of the wedding preast. Has a hard time staying in Finland... Studies medicine in Tartu." :-) The distance does creep in at some point in time and you realize how many years has actually past...
Well, shortly, it was a fantastic autum wedding with much laughter...:-) (That you get when Anders and Elna takes care of the entertainment..hehe) And the music during the ceremony was just amazing, with Christoffer, Elna, Jenna and Christer singing and Emelie, Eerika and Lina playing. Not to mention all the other talented people contributing with wonderful musik and program at the party... A lovely time all together!

Captivated by the beautiful music...

Hanna och Anna...:-)