Growing Pains

SOS Church Stockholm gathered around 400 adults and 70 kids Sunday October 7th. Ok, it was Super Sunday, and everyone charged a little extra, but all indications show a positive trend and a strong growth in our church right now... Last Sunday we had 245 adults!

- Our latest Prayer Night gathered 160 people.
- SOS Youth gather around 40-50 youths every Friday night.
- Our All Nation Café's gather an average of 150-180 adults and around  50 kids (2-3 times every semester).
- Our Sunday Celebrations gather an average of 200 adults now and a little more than 50 kids... We have our ups and down of course, but these are average figures, no exaggeration...
- Our seminars gathered about 100 people to Bible Study once every semester.
- We almost have 40 house churches that meet every week.
- There's SOS Mission Bible School and the Leadership Academy...

And I have not even mentioned SOS Street Mission and SOS Business Class and their wonderful ministry.

We are probably somewhere around 500 active adults and 70 kids today... Most of our faithful members work on the weekends and can only attend maybe every other or every third Sunday. I am so grateful to God for the growth and I think it's pretty good considering that we started the church August 29th 2009 and are only three years old.

Now we have growing pains. We need more leaders and new facilities. We have a major water leake and have to renovate the church from now until Christmas. This means that we need to find new facilities to meet in just one week's time. It's not a problem, but for sure a challenge, especially in Stockholm city. Our leaders are very flexible and creative though and no one is too comfortable or afraid of working hard to make this work. It will be better now! This water leake is forcing us out of our facilities faster than we wished. I believe God is driving us forward :)!

This Sunday we meet again as usual for our celebrations at 12 and 4 pm at Warfvinges Väg 26, Stadshagen at Kungsholmen. Next week will be exciting. We will walk on water again. Jesus is standing on the water. He is waiting for us in the city :).

See ya!