The Mega Church!

I have preached three times at a Mega Church this weekend - Calvary Temple Worship Center, I am infected by the excellence, organization, professionalism and so much more... Their worship is totally raw, wild and so anointed that it simply results in falling completely in love with Jesus and just having to dance. They are 90 people in the worship team (a normal size church in Europe)... Just imagine 90 people filling the stage – singers and musicians! At the 11am service they counted 1,700 people, but then we had already had a service Saturday night with 1,100 and the 9am service gathered 1,500! They have youth services, prayer meetings and Bible Study classes with over 700 every week... The greatness, impact and power here is enormous! They honor each other in the team and the church has a high regard and respect for Ministers anointed by God. I am learning so much here …

I am infected by faith! That is why I write what I write now... We need a Mega Church in Stockholm! God give us a young, wild, evangelistic, worshiping, missions, delivering from demons, healing, and speaking in tongues Mega Church in Stockholm!
I will fly home to Stockholm tomorrow after a morning session at the gym here at the hotel... This evening has a meal with good friends and then off to the movies!

See ya!

28 People Baptized in Water in the City So Far!

I'm flying to San Fransisco via Paris today... Sitting at an IT-café blogging... Last night I received a text message from one of our House Church leaders, they had just baptized a newly saved in their bath tub! The Book of Acts right here in the city, true koinonia (fellowship of the first church) and baptism in a home a regular Thursday night - just as it should be! There are so many conversations about baptism going on in our House Churches right now, and so far we have baptized 28 people since the launch of the church! It's beginning to take off a little now, we are hoping for more speed and a real "baptism wave" and a real break through! We are baptizing way to few people - Stockholm need huge baptisms that are seen and heard of! Old lives and "demon houses" are buried and new life and creations come up from the baptismal tank! Revival atmosphere with physical healings, devoted worship and wild speaking in tongues needs to break forth in the capitol of Sweden! God, give us Stockholm! God, give us the unreached peoples!

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Great Company at SOS Church!

I had prayer school this morning and have taught SOS Mission Bible College (first and second year) the last two days (Tuesday-Wednesday) - played at my home field in other words... Jeff Leake arrives at Arlanda Int Airport early tomorrow morning, and he starts teaching at our Bible School directly... We have great company in SOS Church this coming week :). Many of our own have had Jeff as their favorite preacher for a long time and others will have a great unforgettable experience. Pastor Jeff really is the Pastor of Pastors, a real super shepherd that beams so much love and warmth to all and everyone all the time.

I though, am flying to Modesto, California Friday morning to preach three services this weekend at Calvary Temple Worship Center (a great mega-church with about 8000 members). Calvary has been a Partner-Church to SOS for several years and I love their pastoral team and always learn sooo much when I visit them... I can't leave the church here at home at a better time than when Pastor Jeff is here, but my pastoral team will be here as well, and this partucular weekend everyone is home; Walter Zuniga, Daniel Elvelyck, Emma Gustafsson, Julia Willkander, Jonatan Kvist and Andreas Jensen. They will cover for me but also draw from Jeff's apostolic teaching on Leadership and The Church of the Living God!

Melodie and Jeff...

Saturday night we have All Nations Café - Latino party! Bring as many friends as you can for salsa dance and great food!

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In Love All Over Again

Yes! It's true ;). Yesterday I was at my favorite gym in Flempan with my Maria... To instruct your wife and then watch her work out and work out together as you're giving each other compliments and encouraging each other all the time - sparks of love will fly all around!
"What muscles you have honey!"
"Wow, that's a lot of repetitions you're doing on every set of exercise! So heavy weights? Wow!" Etc etc...
She's in the tanning bed for awhile and I continue to work out... We walk out to the car together and feel, yes... after 16 years of marriage and 19 years together: we're in love all over again. It's really that simple! Working out together is a hot tip for married couples ;).

Maria and I were "stand in" childrens pastors at SOS Kids this past Sunday! Maria was dressed up as the clown "Sprallis" and I was childrens pastor for a day... Sooo much fun! Then it happened again; "Love in the air" - my wife was just so cute and fun as clown!

We baptized four new believers into the Kingdom of God at the end of the service at SOS Church on Sunday - hallelujah! Yeah, I can't help but fall in love with our church and all our eager new disciples to Jesus as well! There's a lot of love right now...:).

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Good Relations for the "Spotted's" Sake!

All the believers were one in heart and mind. No one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they shared everything they had. 33With great power the apostles continued to testify to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and much grace was upon them all.

Acts 4:32-33

I am sooo happy for my siblings in the different churches in Stockholm... Had lunch with the Youth Pastor of Finnish Filadelfia Church this week and planned a Youth Conference for this coming Easter. I will preach at Jerusalem Church, the Ethiopian church, tomorrow morning and then head over to SOS Church to have the kids church at 4 pm... We are cooperationg with St Clara Church, Allhelgona Church, Filadelfia Church, the City Church, New Fellowship, The Cross Church, Dynamic, Credo and the Salvation Army in a project where we provide supper, lodging and breakfast for the homeless every day... We'll work in different teams and shifts and are hoping for the grace and power that the Book of Acts talks about to be over this... Imagine to be able to take a cooperate responsibility for the poor of the city - thank You Jesus!

...in the daily distribution of food.

Acts 6:1b

Lately I have heard the Spirit whisper to me to stretch out even more to the poor... Unreached Peoples - those no one else wants to go to or preach to and those in Stockholm that no one else cares about... God is giving us the striped, spreckled, and the spotted (Gen 31:12). I am also sensing a completely new love to and gratefulness in my heart toward my siblings in all the other churches around the city... The work of the Spirit in our lives is both beautiful and precious... Fellowship that is built on a practical cooperation for a common cause is true fellowship. Focus on the harvest = Unity.

Yesterday I had lunch with a Swedish Indian businessman in the city who wants to be baptized and join our church and today I am meeting a Swedish Armenian seeker for another lunch meeting that hopefully will lead into Bible reading, confession of sin and repentance... God give is Stockholm!

Tomorrow is Sunday again! "I love Sundays!" as Pastor Brian Houston so often says...

See ya!

Pastoral Duties?!

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!

Expansion on all fronts!

We are experiencing enormous expansion in SOS Church, on absolutely all fronts at the moment! We have a great need to consecrate (purify, ransack) ourselves, pray and seek God m ore intensely than ever before to keep us from being distracted by wrong things. Instead of missing the target, we want to hit the bulls eye of God's wonderful will!

SOS Internationally;

1) SOS Mission will conduct 4 festivals during 2010 – Nepal, Tanzania, Haiti, and Dominican Republic!
2) The mission bases are growing stronger and stronger – it is soon time to plant a new base!
3) Our portable festival equipment will see the light of day this fall after 5 years of hard work with this project!
4) SOS Bible Colleges will be graduating more students and missionaries in Ethiopia, Thailand, Bulgaria and the USA
5) HarvestCry will be conducted in Sweden, Norway and the USA!

Harvest Cry 2009...

Home in Stockholm;

1) SOS Kids is growing!
2) The house churches are growing and need to be divided and more and more come into existence!
3) We will be launching SOS Youth!
4) Applications have begun to come in for SOS Mission Bible College and this fall the school will be larger.
5) SOS Media will purchase TV equipment and in March we will begin airing two programs per week!

Today I preached at SOS Church on the office of the Evangelist! Next week it seems we will be baptizing 5 newly saved and completely fresh disciples of Jesus again. God is good!

See ya.