29 april 2013

A Good God and maaaaany friends

We are blessed with many friend, colleagues and visitors. We see them as sisters and brothers.

  We need God more
and
we need each other more.

We had a good time last week in Bangkok meeting several people. We could inspire each other. Certainly there are a lot of tough job doing urban church planting, but pioneer work is always exciting. It was difficult stop talking about it.

We went home to Chiang Mai with night bus. There are now many good coaches and I could sleep. Coming back to Chiang Mai I had a Well Board Meeting.

On Friday we had Owe A. over to us. Nice to meet him, he attended a conf in the city. He is a good encourager. Heart to heart.

But I forgot to take a picture of Owe, so I took out a T-skirt that we had on his and Effa`s farewell and I took a picture on that T-skirt. Wish him all the best now at our Mission Theological Seminary in Sweden. Although he is 69, he is still going strong and is happy to serve God and people

Last Friday we had attended a house group here in Chiang Mai, which inaugarated a new home. Encouraging and we saw that the the Kingdom of God is spreading to new Thai homes in new suburbs.

Last Saturday we were blessed by 11-12 Thais visiting our home for several hours. They seemed very happy. This was no ordinary church service, but they wanted to learn to bake special rolls we call Semlor. They called them: Salapao Sweden. (Riceballs with filling). A very new believer was participating.
We are now also starting to get many good friends in Ubon.

The sad news is that there are many dead in Savar. Bangladesh. A 8 storey building with 5 garment factories, 1 bank and 300 shops collapsed. In the building were 3,000 people. More than 370 have been found dead and 900 are still missing. We cry with Bangladesh right now. Pray for this country.

We saw a little video on how electric power works. It`s the same with the Power of God. We need to be in touch with the ground, life, reality, the grassroots, the broken and the wounded. Then something happened. The power of God will not hurt us but bless us and ..... even these young people were happy in the process.


Have a great week. Ingvar