We need your prayers like never before

We have 98 newborn babies to take care of. These last two weeks 98 people have decided to give their hearts to Jesus.

Last night we packed the room and had a great Jesus party. And when we did the altar call people flooded to the front. As we have been praying for the start of HiGH LiFE and the GOD LOVES BANGKOK festival we have been praying for 50 new people. Now we have almost the double and another 50 or so have given us their contact information because they want to know more about the life with Jesus.

We thank God for the LifeCenter team and the MissionSOS/MCM team that has been serving, sharing and showing God´s love to the people of Bangkok. Today the MissionSOS/MCM team is leaving. Thank you guys for coming! You have made an eternal impact!

As we believed for a supernatural harvest, we now believe for a supernatural way of taking care of all these precious people. Please lift all these new believers in prayer.

Mission SOS visiting HiGH LiFE

Yesterday the team from the Bible collages of Mission SOS (Märsta, Sweden) and MCM, (Pittsburgh, USA) arrived in the morning. During the day we were out on the campus area inviting people for the HiGH LiFE-event. And the evening was full of creative ways of breaking down barriers and presenting the message about Jesus. There was a lot of laughter, especially when part of the team played air band to a popular radio hit here in Thai (see picture).

They also performed a great and hilarious drama called "Give Your Heart to God" before the sermon. The event ended with nine precious people giving their hearts to God.

Today another nine did the same! What a privilege it is to serve the living God. Tomorrow night we have our last event in this GOD LOVES BANGKOK festival. Please pray with us that a lot of people will come and connect with Jesus and LifeCenter Bangkok.

Enjoying ministry ;-)

Here comes a video greeting from our Saturday off with the team. Early in the morning we took a minibus and headed for Ko Samet. For some of our Thai friends it was their first time ever on the beach. It was so fun for all of us. The kids loved it and we had a great team building experience. Just relaxing after a hard working week in the heat and the beat of Bangkok.

Then on Sunday we had a good service with some of our new brothers and sisters in the Lord. Passionate worship, preaching of the word, good food together and then four friends where baptized in the rain. Such a good time!!! Loving Life. Loving Jesus and loving his church.

After the service the LifeCenter team took off for a few days in China before they go back to Sweden. Thanks for coming guys! You are a great bunch of heroes! Isn't it a priviledge to be part of serving the church of Jesus among the unreached!

Now we are preparing for the second week of our GOD LOVES BANGKOK festival and tomorrow we recieve a great team from MissionSOS and MCM... Stay tuned and keep on praying for us.

The First HiGH LiFE Event.

Last night we had our first HiGH LiFE event here in Bangkok. So far we have just had LifeGroups... but now we have started with our gatherings!

The LifeCenter team has been on the Ramkhamhaeng Campus the last three days handing out invitations and doing evangelism. What would be the result? Would anyone come to the event? The band that was supposed to play cancelled a few days before and we had just a guitar. Still we had the verse "Be still and know that I am God" ringing in our head. (Jasmine brought it home on a piece of paper in the afternoon.)

The LifeCenter team had taken up postions to help people find their way to the "Upper Room". 6 pm when the event was supposed to start just a handfull of students had come. We tried to serve them some snacks while we were waiting but the atmosphere was rather tensed. After a few minutes some more came and 40 minutes later we started with a bunch of people filling one third of the room.

Josef, our LifeCenter team leader, took the guitar and sang two songs before we started to preach. No fun games... just the simple message of God´s love. And that´s all we need. As we preached the atmosphere got easier and easier. Then we handed over the microphone to our Thai friend, Maem, and she shared her powerful story how God changed her life. After that Josef sang another song and then we did the invitation for those who wanted to be saved.

The evening ended with a joyful chaos in the "Consolidation room" where we followed up those who wanted to be saved and those that wanted to know more. 25 people made the decision to give their lives to Jesus for the first time! That makes a total of 30 this week!!! All glory to Jesus! Another handful of people wanted to know more.

People that we met for the first time and people we have been praying for during nine months went home shining with joy carrying their new Bibles under their arms. Now we need to get new Bibles for next week.

Hunger in Bangkok

Today a man called us. It was a taxi driver that had given us a ride the other day. He just called to say that he now had read the New Testament we gave him and that he had a new telephone number. He has read the whole book in just a week. When we gave it to him, he said that he always wanted to read the Bible but had never seen one in his entire life. He also said he wanted to come to our church to get to know Jesus more.

The people of this city are hungry for God and his word. The harvest is ripe. We pray to God for more workers. Tonight 14 heroes from LifeCenter in Västerås is coming. They are going to work hard for a week. Pray for them.

A few days ago Paulina gave a NT to a begger at the Skytrain station. Suddenly a man approached her and asked if it was a Bible Paulina had given the begger and if she knew how he could get hold of more. He had been looking for some and had not yet found any. People are desperate for the message of God and his love. If you feel led to support this "God Loves Bangkok"-festival that we have this week and next please contact us. Click here. We need support to print flyers, rent fascilities, follow up materials, etc.

Black Song Kran is over, calm returning

This week has been turbulent in many ways here in Bangkok. Instead of the partying and water fights of Song Kran (the Thai New Year), there was demonstrations and riots. Last Saturday we happened to be in the middle of the red shirts marching from one site to the other. A bit scary. But otherwise our part of town has been calmer than usual. Now however things have calmed down. Thank you for praying.

These days we have had the privilege of having our pastors from our hometown Västerås here with us, Per-Johan and Ulrica Stenstrand. Today we are going to show them one of our favorite places here: Ramkhamhaeng University.

On Monday our team from LifeCenter Västerås arrives. They will work with the "GOD LOVES BANGKOK"-festival and start up our HiGH LiFE events on Thursday. We believe it will be the starting point for weekly events to present Jesus and God´s lifegiving principles for the students in that area. Please remember us in your prayers the two coming weeks.
HiGH LiFE events: 23rd, 28th & 30th.

Pray for Sengidoji

A few days ago we got a beautiful gift from the minister of defence of Bhu*tan. We got a belt woven in nice colours - a gift the kings of Bhu*tan usually gives to those they want to show honour. This man is the father of "Our God given friend". This young man was to be baptised on Easter Sunday but now he has to return immideately to Bhu*tan because his father has been in a terrible car accident. The three other men in the car didn't survive.

Sengidoji is now in respirator and we want to encourage you to pray for him. God hears prayers. We believe God has great plans for this man and his nation. Pray also for this new believer, our dear brother, Wangchuk, who now travels to be close to his dad. Pray for Sengidoji's healing and that also Wangchuk would be able to share about the forgiveness of sins and God's love in Jesus with his father.

The Upper Room

It´s time to set up LifeCenter Ramkhamhaeng Campus!
From the 22th of April we are renting this place, we call it "The Upper Room"... It´s on the 15th floor in the Dynasty Hotel, just opposite of Ramkhamhaeng University. (Soi 35, just behind Major Hollywood theaters). After a few weeks of praying and looking around for the best location yesterday we decided to take this step of faith. We sat down with the hotel manager and when we shared the message of Jesus and that we wanted to use the room for teaching Life principles from the Bible she said she wanted to join us.

We asked if we could take some of our friends upstairs to pray in the room. One of the students who where not yet saved was with us as well. As soon as we started praying, our dear friends Jane and Jean lead her to the Lord. She prayed a prayer dedicating her life to the Lord. The church is not about a building or a room, it´s about people finding their purpose in life. So we can´t think of a better way to dedicate this room for Jesus and his church!

Please pray with us concerning the rent and the outreach events we are planning the last two weeks of April. Contact us if you want to be a part of this.

Life Group

Life Groups is when we meet in homes, coffeehouses or wherever to encourage each other and share the victories and struggles of life. Most of the time we snack or eat on something, have a lot of fun, talk about Jesus and life and pray with one another. It´s a great time.

This time just a few showed up, but every individual is so valuable in God´s eyes. Paulina shared about the life with Jesus. We are praying that we will have a baptism soon.

Right now most of the students we have got to know at the university have their exams. Sometimes life feels like we are going through an exam as well. Then we just have to keep on doing what we know is right, then we can be sure of that we will come through to victory and success the way God sees it. Psalm 37 is great. This is 3rd and 4th verse:

Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the LORD
and he will give you the desires of your heart.

A God Given Friend

A few months ago we were on our way to do some errands and came fifteen minutes too early to the mall. To be effective we decided to walk over to the super market. On the way there both of us sensed that we should go back and see if there were anyone we could talk with. When we came back to the mall a well dressed young man stood there on his own. He didn't look like a Thai so we asked where he came from. He shared some of his life story, that he was from Bhu*tan and that he had worked here in Bangkok for the last three years. When he asked us, we told him that we are here to start LifeCenter International Church and immediately he said he would like to come some time. A year earlier some missionaries had given him a tract about Jesus on the skytrain.

Since then we have met a just a few times but yesterday we had a wonderful time together in our living room. We prayed a prayer together where he received the forgiveness of sins and gave his life to Jesus. He is a talented and very humble man. He has already become a dear friend to us. Right now he is going through a tough time in his life. He has spent the last days on the hospital with his Thai father-in-law who has blood cancer. Please pray with us for him, his family and that the father-in-law would be healed in the name of Jesus. God hears prayers!

Celebrate Marriage!

On Valentine´s Day (in Sweden we call it "All Hearts Day") we had invited some friends to "Celebrate Marriage" with us. We had a great evening at Rossini´s restaurant, enjoying a first-class Italian dinner and good fellowship. Thank God for friends! All these couples are our valuable friends and we believe we all were encouraged as husbands and wives this evening.

When Jesus shows up

The two guys on the left came looking for us at the university today. The reason: They wanted to be saved. They have gone through some tough crisis and among other things they have lost relationships and jobs down in the south of Thailand. (The financial crises is affecting Thailand as well.) They came to Bangkok a few days ago in search for a new job and a new start in their lives. They ended up in our friend Chaart´s one-room apartment. He has been sharing Christ with them and last night one of them had a dream of how Jesus came to him.

So today we bought them a lunch and shared about God´s love. With tears in his eyes one of them shared his dream and then we just prayed together. Isn´t it wonderful how Jesus comes to us when we are in the crisis, and how he offers to carry all our troubles?
Please pray for Suu and Hard as they start their new life with Jesus and that they will get the right jobs. Pray for Chaart as he will guide them in their new life and that he also will get a good job.

Ice Cream Party

This afternoon we had an Ice Cream Party for some of our friends at the Ramkhamhaeng University. So fun! We had our kids with us and they enjoyed the Ice Cream as well as the company of these wonderful young friends. Please pray for them. Some of them have already decided to follow Jesus but all of them are eager to learn more about Him.

House of Grace

On Thursday, Daniel had the priviledge to go with Rev. Jörgen Algesund to an orphanage. Rev. Jörgen is a Swedish missionary who has been serving in this country in almost 50 years. Many of the Full Gospel pastors know him and regard him high as he has been a pioneer in theological training in Thailand. We are always encouraged to meet him and his wife Inger.

The orphanage we visited was a few hours drive from here. When we got there I was really moved in my heart for these children's situation. House of Grace is an orphanage for AIDS-affected children whose parents has died of this terrible disease and who have no one to take care of them. 30 girls and 27 boys. A 2-year-old boy had just arrived there, as old as our son Jonathan but already with this death sentence over his life.

Thank you Jesus for House of Grace and pastor Kitisak and his wife, who give their lives for these AIDS-affected children and widows. Read more at their website: www.houseofgracethailand.com

The invitations has been sent

On Valentine´s Day we are arranging the party: "Celebrate Marriage". Now these invitations has been sent out and we expect around 15 couples to come. Every couple invited are precious friends that we have got to know in this city. Our prayer is that they will be encouraged to build great marriages and inspired to find out more of God´s principles of how to do that.

We've got a great deal with an award-winning (and very exclusive) Italian restaurant and the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit has promised all the married couples who wants to a complimentary hotel room! We really sense God´s favor when we are preparing this. At the same time we experience that we are in a war when we deal with something so important. The Bible teaches all of us to hold every marriage high. So please stand in prayer for this party and all these marriages and families represented.