What are You Waiting On?!

I have just had the priviledge to preach three services at Evangeliesenterets annual conference in Österbo, right outside of the city of Halden in Norway... This is the annual summer conference for the Norwegian Pentecostal rehab centers for alcoholics and drug addicts... I don't really know why I am invited back year after year... Anyways - it's such a wonderful place! Jesus, Jesus and just Jesus again! Lots of transformed lives and restored families (more than 30,000 people have gone through their program through the years).

Precious people have been saved in every service and last night several were baptized in the Holy Spirit as well! I am enjoying the simplicity, the "rawness", the love, all the testimonies of changed lives, all the miracles and the strong Holy Spirit atmosphere at Österbo! Very special and wonderful. I think we have to start a SOS Rehab soon!

By the way - what are you waiting on?! Why haven't you applied to our Bible Schools yet? Sooo many are already accepted, but we are still waiting for your application :)! God has an amazing plan for your life! Adventures with Jesus awaits! Apply here! MCM Ministry School, SOS Mission Bible College or SOS Leadership School, they all start at the end of August! Watch these trailers from our school in Stockholm Sweden and Pittsburgh PA, USA!

Bible School Trailer- Maja from Mission SOS on Vimeo.

MCM Ministry School Promo from Allison Park Church on Vimeo.

See ya!

Philadelphia and Israel

This past weekend I was in Philadelphia PA, USA. Hungry people were saved, baptized in the Holy Spirit and healed! I really enjoyed the summer heat in the States :)!

October 29 - November 7 this fall I will once again travel with Duveskogs Travel Agency to Israel! For me personally, this is somewhat the highlight of the year... Israel is fantastic in sooo many ways! Here are 10 reasons why you should go to Israel;

1) It is simply the land of the Bible. Every page in the Bible begins to move, jump out and call your name! Get to know the Bible in its geographical setting.

2) Jesus was a Jew and salvation comes from the Jews. Suddenly, being a Christian, you understand your Jewish roots. (John 4:22, Rom 11:18)

3) Israel is the meeting point for three of the world religions: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. You will come home with a better understanding of the conflict in the Middle East, the entire world political scene and the tension that exists between Christians and Muslims on every continent...

4) It is a fantastic combination of both education and vacation. You relax while you learn new stuff.

5) Middle East culture and western influences in a perfect mix. The modern urban multiethnical Israel is a school for the next generation, of the global culture found in Mega cities.

Come with us to Israel this fall! Your travel guides will be Göran Duveskog, Daniel Viklund and I...

6) As a Christian you will understand ”the End Times, the unreached peoples, and the return of Jesus”. (Matt 24:14)

7) You will get friends for life. Different generations, nationalities and both blue and white collar, all join in on the same trip to study, explore, have vacation and lots of fun.

8) Israel is perfect for evangelisation. Invite your seeker friend, relative or neighbor and together visit the historical Calvary, the Garden Tomb, Mount Olive, and the Upper Room ;).

9) The modern Israel and the Jews need your warm hearted support in a cold, cynical world, full of hatred, murder, and evil.

10) The Mediterranean Sea, snorkeling in the Red Sea, floating in the Dead Sea and baptism in the Jordan River, the food, sunset in the desert, shopping and finally a tan!

Sign up fast! Sign up here!

See ya!

We Pray for Norway!

Our brother nation was attacked yesterday. Oslo and Norway was brutally attacked, bombs and atomatic weapons was used and the number of casualties is rising with every news report...

Dear Norway! Dear precious Norwegian people. You are not alone. We are mourning your loss and crying with you today. True, honest salty tears puoring down our cheeks... What has happened is unbelievable and horrible. Our Swedish flags have to, just as yours, be raised half way today in sympathy and grief with all the families that are bleeding from open wounds... How tremendous must the grief be after losing a teenager, a young life cut off and stolen?!

We are crying out to God for the angels to protect our closest Scandinavian neighbors against further evil intentions and attacks against your democracy. We won't let fear win. We believe in protection through the blood of Jesus. We believe in prayer. We pray that your future will stay light and full and hope.

Norway is a wonderful and fantastic nation. A small, but strong people. The Norwegian people have warm and big hearts, they are hospitable, generous and our closest and beloved Swedish relatives. You are God fearing and humble. Sweden is crying today as well.

We refuse to bow for terrorism in Scandinavia, regardless where it comes from! We will lift up ur heads and straighten our backs! Democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion and diversity is our pride! We stand with you!

Your allies in SOS Church Stockholm

Our Graduates Impact the World!

Something that is a real joy in ministry are all the sons and daughters that have graduated from SOS' six different Bible Schools around the world! They are many now! I am actually preaching my 21st year now and celebrated 20 years in ministry July 17th this summer! Unbelievable, I know, since I'm only getting younger, can lift more in bench press now and have more energy than when I started preaching 20 years ago ;).

This video clip came from Timothy and Manuelle Zurcher and the little town Bienne in Switzerland just recently... The Zurcher's graduated from SOS Mission Bible College at the beginning of June this year and are already Senior Pastors in a church on the border between German and French speaking Switzerland! Watch their greeting and enjoy!

Greeting from Switzerland from Mission SOS on Vimeo.

Sooo much fun! Send us your greeting too :)!

See ya!

SOS Festival Band to Tanzania!

I have been invited to speak at one of the largest youth conferences arranged by AoG East Africa in November. The second week of November I will fly with a team from SOS to the capital f Tanzania - Dar es Salaam! SOS Festival Band are specially intived to hold concerts next to bands from Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania!

SOS Festival Band...

Come along! Sign up here!

In June 2012 (June 13-17) we will return to Dar es Salaam to hold a city wide festival! You'll soon have more information on this. About 1,000 churches are ready to back up the festival! Watch the video greeting below:

Greeting from Tanzania from Mission SOS on Vimeo.

See ya!

Kick Off Weekend

My American friend since many years, Pastor Chris Gilkey, will join us for our Kick Off Celebration August 28th at SOS Church! Chris and his wife Melissa leads Reach Church in Austin TX, and its growing like crazy! Chris is a former Marine and have worked as Youth Pastor in three of America's mega churches with 12,000, 4,000 and 6,000 members. Chris is a groundbreaking Apostle and a "one with the people" evangelistic Pastor! He is is also the one of my pastor friends with the biggest biceps and that once lifted 441 lbs in bench press!

Pastor Chris Gilkey...

Our Kick Off starts at noon with a leadership gathering until 2 pm. Our House Church Pastor, Emma Gustafsson will speak then... We'll take a break between 2 - 4 pm. At 4 pm celebration starts and we'll get to our sub target for the second part of 2011. Chris will preach to us! After coffee and fellowship there will be a short vision meeting for our members at 7 pm - SOS Next Step! Be prepared for a full day with your church! Chris is the "muscle package" and a tinderbox you just cannot miss!

See ya!

The Church Moves Forward!

Right now we are 350 active adult members of SOS Church Stockholm, that was born August 29th 2009, about 40 kids and a little more than 30 youths, that makes 420 happy disciples!

SOS Church Camp last Saturday in "Rålis" park started at 10 am and ended at 10 pm. About 200 adults came just to hang out, play chess, volley ball and BBQ during these 12 hours... Lovely!

SOS Church Camp 2011...

Our church was packed out this past Sunday! In the midle of the summer! Four people wanted to pray a salvation prayer and we had many new visitors! We ended the celebration by baptizing in Lake Mälaren right in the middle of the city!

Sunday August 28th is our Kick Off for this fall. We'll start off with a leadership seminar 12 noon - 2 pm, celebration at 4 pm and vision meeting called SOS Next Step after the coffee break for new members!

East Africa's strongest Apostle, Wilfred Lai from Mombasa Kenya, will visit us the weekend of October 8-9! Pastor Wilfed Lai is the Senior Pastor at Jesus Celebration Center and we are looking forward to a lion's roar both at the Leadership Day and Super Sunday! We are praying that Wilfred will realease faith, miracle power and a spirit of prayer in SOS Church Stockholm!

Dr. Wilfred Lai is Senior Pastor at Jesus Celebration Center in Mombasa, Kenya...

I'm longing for the fall already! New Bible School students, exciting ministers that will visit and new mission trips!

Se are moving forward!

See ya!

SOS Church Camp

Came home from Tanzania Tuesday night...Have had time to hang out with my family, work out and meet a newly saved friend... Yesterday we had a budget meeting with SOS international board and later that night a Pastor's meeting - love to speak with, pray and hang out with my pastors...

Tomorrow the church will gather at the Rålambshovs Park at 10 am for SOS Church Camp! We'll BBQ, play chess, soccer and laugh a lot! Bring lots of BBQ meat :)!

See ya soon!

Soccer in Tanzania!

Last Sunday, after we had visited four different churches we went back to the hotell and quickly slipped out of our suits, ties and cuff links and put on old jeans and sleeveless t-shirts... We had been given VIP tickets to a soccer game, Emmanuel and I. Dar es Salaam has a super modern stadion that seats 65,000 people! It was packed out! Wow! Atmosphere like crazy! The final game for Eastern Central Africa Soccer Tournament... Teams from Ethiopia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania among others had played and now two teams from Tanzania had reached the finals! We watched Yanga meet Simba and it was the craziest folk-feast I've attended in my life! So fun! The supporters fought in the bleechers and sent up flares and the police had to intervene about once every 10 minutes or so :).

The Yanga players celebrating...

When Yanga, in the extension of the game, won 1-0, their fans took of their shirts and danced in wild happiness, waving their t-shirts over head and blowing in horns for about an hour... When it was time for the prize to be ditributed to the winning team and a mobile platform was wheeled into the stadion, the power went. There was no national anthem and people blamed Simba's supporters for sabotage and fought with everyone and everything... I loved it when they brought in an ambulance to temporary light up the platform with the head lights from the car... The trophy was given to Yanga and medals to all the players - everything in the light from the car while screaming in megaphones!

Sooo wonderful! Love Africa! What an experience!

See ya!

Reflections After Tanzania

I visited great Pentecostal churches in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania last week... Some were 3,000 members, others 800 and one 6,000... Met mature, humble, balanced and very generous Bishops, Pastors and leaders... I was so impressed by their willingness to give and their aggressive faith! One church with only 800 members (15-30 year old members) managed to raise 300,000 USD and buy land with cash to build their church - only in a few months... They sold their cars, computers, cell phones etc... Now they are raising money to build a super modern church with about 4,500 seats! They are wild! I never wanted to stop worshipping when I was there, even though I didn't understand more than a few words of the songs in Swahili that thay sang in their church. The worship leaders weren't just very talented musicians and had incredible voices, but there was something else - Jesus was there and the anointing could be felt right through skin and bone... The blood start to boil and the ground shakes when they dance, sing, cry out and devote themselves in prayer and worship! I wasn't allowed to pay at the restaurants. I wasn't allowed to pay for my taxi. I wasn't allowed to pay for my hotell. I was given a donation to SOS that equals two months salaries for a church here! Africa has so much to teach us! Jesus, help us in Europe! They are passing us!

I so enjoyed to see people saved, the blind see, demons cast out and hungry disciples being baptized in the Holy Spirit in almost every gathering that we had. They churches that I visited were truly lovely! At the same time I was sad when I spoke to African leaders about legalism, religion, false teachings and fanatisicm - that actually bind many wonderful Africans as well and scare millions away from the church. Thank you God for a new, true and pure hearted generation of young leaders that are rising up on the African continent. They refuse to compromise with the Bible and at the same time want to be folksy and modern. Their charm when they combine the Spirit of prayer with smoke machines and cool lighting is lovely. I think I have fallen in love with the African urban teenagers I met last week... The Jesus-loving teenagers of Kampala, Nairobi and Dar es Salaam have stolen a piece of my heart...

I have been invited together with SOS Festival Band to come and speak at the biggest youth conference for the Swahili speaking East Africa in November this year. There is hope for Africa a nd there is hope for the world! The next wave of missionaries will come from Africa to Europe!

See ya!

Healing and Deliverances in Dar es Salaam!

Blind eyes opened, demons cast out, Jesus is in Dar es Salaam... Fun to sweat and work again - preached just a little bit :)...

I was in Tanzania last week to seek God and enjoy life... Have had a lot of time to pray and meditate on the Bible, ate good food; ugali (corn porridge), chapati (thin bread) and a lot of fish. Dar es Salaam is located right by the Indian Ocean and they love fish and sea food...

Ugali...

Chapati

The capital city of Tanzania has an exciting mix of many people; different East African tribes, Indians, Arabs and of course a mix of religions; Christians, Animists, Hindus and Muslims. Churches, temples and Mosques shoulder to shoulder in the street corners... 3.5 million people live there and the hunger for the Jesus gospel demonstrated in power is severe. We enjoyed all the different scents and the music - you hear music everywhere and people are dancing everywhere. One night Emmanuel and I enjoyed listening to a local band that played covers from the Swedish pop group ABBA at the reataurant when we had supper ;). Fun!

See ya!

Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

I flew to Dar es Salaam, the capital of Tanzania together with my Nigerian friend Emmanuel Chiedebere as my armour bearer Monday morning… It’s wonderful to be in Africa together. Emmanuel hasn’t been in Tanzania for 16 long years, and is probably enjoying this more than I… It’s so beautiful to be here, and God performs miracles.. Today we delivered two precious people from evil spirits… We’re most likely going to hold a large festival here in Dar es Salaam in 2012! :)

You’re coming, right?!

We’re in the middle of summer. Stockholm has shown its most beautiful side with amazing weather! I’m enjoying life a lot! But I can’t stop longing for, praying and dreaming about the fall! I believe that we will explode in SOS Church, it’s so exciting to serve God! I am totally convinced that the Bible school will be awesome this year, and you don’t want to miss that my friend ;) We begin August 26th, and before the month of May was over, we already had more applications than last year! It looks like we’re going to have an exciting fall… You’re coming right?!

Bible School Trailer- Ma-jo from Mission SOS on Vimeo.

SOS Church Stockholm

The church we planted not even two years ago in Stockholm (SOS Church will be 2 years August 28th) have become the greatest joy in my life! Festivals among the unreached people groups, the authorship and coaching leaders are my strongest "branches" as a preacher, i.e what I still do and know the best. Have done this since June 1991, but I have to be honest and say that I love being a pastor more... Hard to admit it, but that's a fact. Pre-marriage counseling, weddings, funerals, home visits and counseling is great! I am enjoying being a priest for Stockholm and pastor at SOS on Kungsholmen! Yesterday Moses was baptized in the Holy Spirit in our house church and started speaking in tongues for the first time in his life - he is free from drugs now and baptized in water since two months back :)!

We have baptized more than 100 people since the church was planted in the city now! We have more than 40 different nationalities in the church and the atmosphere is amazing! All our members make at least one disciple per year, leads him to salvation, baptism in water and the Spirit! If they don't they become stagnant and need to start following Jesus again ;).

I preached at home today :) and I fly out to Tanzania tomorrow to visit good friends, pray and seek God for a week. Fantastic that the the Swedish Social Insurance Administration granted me a trip overseas during my sick leave... It's 90 degrees F today and 82 in our pool :). Had a Bible study with the family, training my injured knee and ariting on my book... Can life be any better?!

God is sooo good!

See ya!