Vacation in Finland...

Last Tuesday evening I arrived in Finland... I stayed at my sister Hanna´s place in Helsinki until Saturday. It was great to see her and spend time with her again... I must have been exhausted, because the first few days I slept 12 hours each night!!! :-) It was great that I also got to see and spend time with my cousins, Eva, Titti and Elin.

Titti and Hanna...

Eva:-)

On Thursday evening we played volleyball with some other Christians at one of the Churches in Helsinki. It was fun times... The on Friday I got to see Julia and we went for a long niiiice walk along the water... It was sooo beautiful and amazing... :-) Always great to go for walks and talks with friends... :-) Friday evening was a baptismal and worship night at Fila Church and it was a POWERFUL evening!!! God´s presence come sooo strongly and the worship was totally amazing!!!
Friday Worship Night... Pastor Kenneth Grönroos preaching.

Saturday morning there was Women´s Brunch at Fila. It was such a wonderful meeting... Women together talking over a cup of coffee and snacks, worship, background music, some preaching/sharing and prayer... It was sooo good...made me really miss Hillsong Women!!! :-) It´s great being a woman!!! :-D

Women´s Brunch Service...

Matilda and I... We were in the same prayer group at MVV and now we met again...

After that meeting we headed back to Hanna´s place, just in time to quickly pack and then Elin and I jumpped on a bus to Sibbo, where there was a youth conference... I then spent the time there undtil Sunday afternoon. It was great to meet people I haven´t seen in a while, and also to meet new people... :-) After that I jumpped on a bus towards Liljendal, where I then I arrived just in time for the cellgroup... And again it was great to see all the people... :-)

Some relaxing time between the service at the Youth Conference at Betania...

Tomas Forsbäck preaching Sunday morning...

Now after the weekend I have had time to just relax, read, go for looong walks, listening to worship and teaching, seeing some friends and relatives, and "my fredax girls" when we went to the Jesus Revolution concert...:-) so it has been such a great time to just be able to recharge and relax... Praise God!!! I am gaining strength for the spring term...:-) I am sooo inlove with Jesus, and God is just sooo good and faithful and wonderful and amazing, and all the other wonderful words in the world!!! There is just not enough words to praise Him!!! :-) We serve an AWESOME God!!!

Powerful weekend!!! :-)

Last weekend Tom Jensen came to Estonia with the team- Ruben, Calle and Fredrik. It was a wonderful uplifting and intense extended weekend! Friday there was youth meeting with the guys preaching... The Holy Spirit was moving in the meeting, touching people´s lives...:-) How wonderful is the Holy Spirit when He comes and speaks and does things in people´s lives! There is none like our God! Saturday was Tom Jensen´s seminar from 11-15. It was as great as always! :-) Inspiring and equipping...and lots of laughter...:-)

Friday youthmeeting... Ruben preaching and Julia translating...
Snacks and fellowship...

After the seminar there was a musical in our church- "The miracle in Vostok". There were many children from the Christian school that were apart of it, and even though I didn´t get to see all of it, what I saw was sooo good!!! :-) I really would love to see the whole musical one of these days!... Anyways, the reason I didn´t see all of it was that we split up in two teams, one team went to Põlva and the other went to Viljandi for youth meetings. I got the privilege to be the driver for the Viljandi team. Andrus, Ruben, Benjamin and I went to Viljandi and had a great evening there! Ruben was preaching and it was such an amazing worship and again the Holy Spirit moved wonderfully in the meeting... The other team in Põlva (Calle, Fredrik and Dima) also had a great time (so I heard) and they got to play basketball after the meeting with the youth...:-)


Viljandi youth meeting...Ruben preaching and Andrus translating...

Sunday Tom was preaching and we had another wonderful meeting... Again he used illustrations, as you can see on the pic...:-) Lots could be said, but just shortly-it was good and powerful:-)

Illustrations, illustrations... :-)

Sunday afternoon/evening I also went to Põlva were Tom and the team had another meeting... I have never ever seen Tom being soooo on fire, or preaching with more energy than then!!! Talk about some serious duracell!!! :-) It was an amazing meeting... :-) It was so great being in Põlva again... such a wonderful passionate church! It is always so encouraging to see the changes and growth... :-) God is good! :-) After coming back from Põlva we had a movienight with some youth and the norwegians at my place... It´s always so great having people over! It is such a blessing with friends- sisters and brothers in Christ! Talk about blessing! :-)

Tom preaching in Põlva and Eino translating...

Movienight at my place... :-)

Monday I still got some time with Tom and the guys with shopping and lunch, before they headed off to the airport... Then in the evening we had youthleaders meeting... It was powerful with some serious prayer!!! It is so great to serve God side by side with all the wonderful youthleaders! I am excited for what God wants to do this year in the youthwork! It all starts when God gets to do His work in us and change us!!! :-) God is sooo good!!! :-)

Exams and life...

This time of the year-January- is the exam period at Uni, so the weeks after New Years were some hectic ones with many hours of studies... That is also one of the reasons blogging didnt get any time...he he... but hey... the 2 ½ first weeks of Jan was books and books, and more books, and some movie nights with friends, walks, late nights, Meelike´s birthday, church, cell and other cool things also took place... so yeah, now when the exams are over it is just such an amazing feeling of freedom...It was the strangest feeling ever to be able to TOTALLY relax after the last exam!!! I have again been soooo grateful and thankful to God and He has again showed Himself faithful! What a God we serve!!! When we put Him first ALL other things also fall into place!!! :-) Hallelujah!!! :-)

Some of the Beautiful cellgirls! Love you guys!!!:-)

Emmi and Kristiina...

Meelike´s surprise birthday guests...:-)

Meelike- the Birthday Girl!!! :-)

The wonderful family-Hannes, Johannes and Getlin!

An overview of MVV and the New Year

The tradition has become to be at MVV or Midvinterveckan, which is a New Year´s youth conference/camp... It is always a place where the Holy Spirit gets to do so many wonderful things in people´s lives...it is always so great to hear all the testimonies at the end of the camp... This year was really great as well and it was so amazing to have a little "Hillsong reunion" as Faith was there to do the digital vidio workshop and all the filming during the week, Trine and Adrian came from Norway and had the worship and choir workshop and they were also involved in the worship-so great!!! And the the Åsviks were there of course...:-) so it was just so great to see all those guys again...And it was amazing to see both old friends and get new friends and so on...a very blessed time...and amazing praise and worship, prayer and teaching...:-)

Lots and lots could be said but I´ll let the pics and the movie clips say the rest... :-) We serve an AMAZING and AWESOME GOD!!! :-) He is sooo good and wants to flood our lives with His blessings!!! SO be prepared for the most amazing year so far!!! God has so much in store for your life!!! Just spend time and soak in His presence!!! He is longing so much to spend time with you and spea into your life!!! :-) The best is yet to come!!! :-) Hallelujah!!! :-)

Trine and Adrian singing an amazing song!!! You can feel the anointing!!!:-)

Morning meeting...


Evening meeting...

Lunch...

Faith, Hanna, me, Trine, Adrian and Maria:-)

The Estonians... Raimo and Regina...:-) They are so cute!

Wonderful sisters in Christ! Eeva and Anna:-)

Mikey, Joona, Elisa and Anna...The happy family!:-)

P.s. here are the links to the film clips from MVV on Youtube...

MVV Countdown: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O38IBEA2T8w

MVV 2008: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--dfR3CK8sc&feature=related

An overview of Christmas 2007...

The Christmas is such a wonderful and blessed time together with friends and family! This Christmas we had the honour and priviledge of having Faith staying with us! It was such a great time and so great to see her again! For those of you that do not know her, she is a cool Canadian chick that now lives in Denmark teaching at a teenage Bible school. We met in Australia at Hillsong College and we were neighbours there... :-) So it was wonderful to meet again and spend some time together! We had so much fun! (As you might see in some of the pics..) We were singing Christmas songs in the car while driving to one relatives house to the next... :-) Christmas time reminds you of the wonderful people God has placed in your life. Friends and family-they are all a gift from God! And we are also reminded of the biggest gift of all- Jesus!!!:-) But Christmas also reminds you of the loved ones passed away...this Christmas was the first Christmas without our beloved aunt, who passed away 10 months ago... This really makes me think how important it is that we really take the time and show our thankfulness for all the wonderful people God blesses us with in our life... God is so good!!!

At my cousins´ place...

My wonderful parents...Håkan and Nina...

Decorating the Christmas tree...

Christmas lunch...

He he...girls just wanna have fun...;-)