After half the service up at the hill in howling wind the lift operatoers asked us to get down of the hill...so we ended up having a church service that Gabbe our amazing friend in the Swedish Church in the waiting room for the big gondola! Such a good place for a church service!
Our good friends Andreas and Elia came with some amazing people and blessed us greatly as they gave us hope and prophetic words! We also had our good friends from Pappas Hus coming and a group of church planters from Hammarstrand! God is good and its alweays fun as His children to gather together!
This weeks theme was easter and Jesus way to the cross! So a good crew went to Hållandsgården and our good friend David who showed us their Jerusalem model. Through this model that looks like Jerusalem during Jesus time David opened our eyes and hearts to Jesus way to the cross in a new historic fresh and intresting way. Many parables suddenly made a whole lot more sence! Thank you so much David! And so awesome Sara, Emma, Simon and more good friends from last year showed up!
Happy easter everyone! Its all about the grace and mercy! Its all about Jesus! Its all about the cross!
We thought it was a good idea to go to Romania where our dear friend Snedjana comes from. It became an awesome trip with beautiful people, lots of new friends, lots of love and good snowboarding. God really loves Romania and the people of Romania and so do we. There are so many oportunities and the connection that allready exists between Åre and Romania are amazing. We want to go back next year agan and help out with a ski camp, feed the poor, heal the sick and most of all just love people!
Here is a short edit with mostly snowboarding since we didnt want to bring cameras to minestry.
Many Christian ski camps are now here in our valley and its so awesome! Young people from all over Sweden are coming here for the next 4 weeks to ski and meet God!
Usually we dont hear much about whats going on. But this week we had the chance to be apart of two different camps. Tonight I got to preach about the adventures God is inviting us all into and we saw many young people touched by God in prayer and several were healed. One girl told Anna she was healed when I layed my hand on her shouldered and prayed for her...but I prayed for something else and didnt know anything was wrong with her shoulder. Frida, Elisabeth and Anna did a great job encouraging and praying for these wonderful youth!
Its so many christian camps here and God is probably doing so much we dont know about!
But the cool thing is that they are coming here to our valley, they meet God and they go back home to all of Sweden!
Glory to God!
Danel Haddal evangelist from Norway and his Swedish fiance Madde encouraged us greatly with their life testemonies!
Kristian, Åre (in English further down)
Photo: Frida Bernström
Varför är du här?
För att Lighthouse är en bra grej med många vänner. Det är kul och jag trivs väldigt bra i gemenskapen!
Vad vill du ”high lighta” från helgen?
Det har varit väldigt kul, men gemenskapen framför allt.
Vad var det mest onödiga du tog med i din packning?
Eh, hehe, va kan det va? Jag packade ganska minimalt.
Brukar du packa minimalt?
Nej, jag brukar packa alldeles för mycket faktiskt.
Skidor eller Snowboard?
Snowboard.
Vad har Lighthouse för inverkan på ditt liv?
Det sprider mycket glädje, jag har fått mycket glädje! Mycket det här med att det är en församling med bra tider, man får tid att gå på möten som man annars skulle missa. Gemenskapen och många nya vänner också.
Kristian, Åre In English
Why are you here?
Because Lighthouse is an awesome thing with many good friends. It is so much fun and I enjoy the fellowship.
What do you want to high light from the weekend?
It has been a lot of fun, but foremost the fellowship.
What was the most unnecessary thing you brought with you here?
Eh, hehe, what would that be? I packed quite minimal.
Do you always do that?
No, I use to bring with me way too much actually.
Ski or snowbord?
Snowboard.
How does Lighthouse influence your life?
It spreads a lot of joy, I have received a lot of joy! It is also an assembly with perfect times to meet up, you get time to join meetings that you normally would miss. The fellowship has been an influence on me and a lot of new friends come through Lighthouse too.
Interview by Frida Bernström
Happy times by the Handöl falls! Thank you guys for a nice weekend to kick off a new season with more of God!
Yesterday Björn got down on his skies, Anna said yes!!! We are so super super stoked for you guys! Björn and Anna, you guys are amazing, radically beautiful together, and you guys are a blessing from God into all our lives. Muchos love, joy and blessing.
Awesome monday evening in Gods presence. The Holy Spirit and Graeme ministered to us all. Encouraging prophetic words. So rad! Snejana made fika, super good! Emelie just got back from the conference in Mammoth and shared the goodness with us. And it seemed like she was pretty stoked on seeing Snejana and the amazing fika. Good times.
The body of Christ have different parts. Also in Åre county. This weekend we have had the joy and privilegue of experience the richness of the Kingdom. Yesterday we went to a conference at Papas hus with evagelist Matt Sorger from New York. And today we went to the commisioning service of the Swedish Church - Åre forsamlings, new head priest of Åre forsamling. Two different meetings packed with the presence by God. He is awesome and rad!
Bjørn spoke about Love last monday. Super good and true. "As long as we love, we can't fail" - Bjørn Sylven. He also had us sit in groups and talk about what the world would look like if we would love people even more. Good times.
Radical Love was super amazing. Great times with friends from Finland, Norway and Sweden. And with Jesus. He rocked our world. So rad. There is no one like Jesus!!!
Good times this morning with getting the church in Duved ready for Radical Love. Its gonna be a party!!!
Amazing worship night. There's nothing like Gods presence. Eldrid, Bjørn, Joel, and Matthias led us in worship, so rad with a worship band. Good times.
Graeme and Jodi moved to Åre two weeks ago. Such a blessing to the Lighthouse family. Super stoked. We love you guys!
Yesterday Markus shared some deep thoughts about the Kingdom coming and Gods will be done on earth as in heaven... How we as a church can be part of influencing and changing the world for better. He talked about vision, who's God to you?, hope for the future, identity, doing it together, and miracles. Great, challanging, and inspiring. Lets do it!
