I am actually enjoying being a pastor more than I imagined... For close to 17 years I have traveled more or less full time as festival evangelist / missionary, conference speaker and teacher, preceded by an intense year as a youth pastor in the early 90's... 2009 was very pioneer and exciting with vision and restaurant meetings, building a church, church launch, CD release, baptism teaching and more teaching on baptism :) God is truly a very good God!
2010 has begun with even more excitement as the flow of people continues to increase to our celebrations on Sundays at 4pm – this past Sunday we had 180 people (including children)! At the moment we are talking about the need to soon run two services on Sundays. Mid February we will launch youth services on Friday nights...
This morning I led prayer school at SOS Mission Bible College and then continued to teach on Homiletics (the art of preaching) at our School of Leadership. Tomorrow I will continue with our cadets and share how to outline, illustrate, conclude and write your sermon notes that all hopefully will result in powerful ministry time and a harvest for the Kingdom of God ;). We are training preachers of the Gospel – the Good News!
I then went to purchase a 52” flat screen TV for our café, together with Ronny Salvo, church member and friend... Maria and I have encouraged all our leaders and faithful workers (ie SOS staff) with a small gift for soccer and relaxing evenings at church! (Maria and I are buying the TV. Might as be CLEAR and spell it our here – so that no one can say that we buy luxurious equipment for the church's money...)
Being a pastor is more than counseling, marriage counseling, funerals, it is building the Kingdom of God in the middle of Stockholm with my best friends!
See ya!
