Denmark - Part I GOD MOVING!

Such contrasts!

Do not give up!   Our final days in Sweden ended with the need to encourage perseverance...as the culture of the church here is struggling to be relevant and draw in people who seem uninterested in God.  What faithful, glowing servants we met!   Lord, bless them with the desires of their hearts -- a people who hunger and thirst for you! 

Spreading the fire!  This past weekend we met with friends we last saw 14 years ago...as Pastor Peder Poulsen was leading an unusual church...filled with 80 young people and young families.  Today that church has grown to two services with about 400 excited, vibrant young believers.  Many are students from the local university.  How they love to worship!

Dave's OUTFLOW teaching was considered to be so timely as they have tagged this year as the year to be more intentional in outreach, yet not knowing what to do.   Small group discussions were lively.  On young man said, "I never expected a teaching on evangelism to be so inspiring, so simple, and so funny!"

On Sunday Dave delivered two sermons on "Judas Nature,"  how we tend not to flow out God's love to others because our nature is to focus on "What's in it for me," which was Judases response to Mary's gesture of extravagant love and devotion to Jesus.   

In both services many responded to the invitation for personal prayer to ask God for more and more of Him so they will flow more and more into others.

I am struck, once again, by the realization that small beginnings are not to be a disappointment... this is how growth begins.   A bit fragile, and even hopeless looking.  But in God's time and with a bit of faithfulness from those servants who cannot yet see...He can make the impossible happen!

Lord, bring that hunger and thirst to us all!

Now we are resting a few days on a beautiful little island off the west coast of Denmark called Laesø. . .a refreshing time among good friends and new scenery!   One hundred fifty years ago they used to make roofs out of seaweed!  Imagine that!

Blessings to you from,

Pam & Dave