My Beloved sisters and brothers in Christ, I most warmly welcome you back from whatever part of the world you’ve been to for your summer vacation. Isn’t it wonderful that God in his infinite wisdom gave us the idea of rest? He didn’t simply advice us to rest. He demonstrated it. God is the teacher who teaches through lived examples. We read that much in Genesis 2 verse 2, “And on the seventh day God ended His work which He had done, and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had done.” With no iota of doubt, rest is good, and good rest is most desirable. And so welcome back to work, to family but also to the huge work of the kingdom in our hands. Rest has to be a blessing by re-invigorating and reenergizing you for greater exploits. That the reason for it. I will also acknowledge those of you who held the saddle while the rest were away on vacation. God bless you real good, and I sincerely hope that you too will take the time to get yourselves some rest before the intense end of year activities set in.
Autumn Calls…
As you may have observed, the summer lights are gradually giving way to autumn darkness. That will soon come with it the chills of Swedish winter that signal that 2017 is gradually winding down. But the darkness of winter, or the northern colds of Scandinavia are not enough to quench the fervency of spirit with which we must all approach all the many outreach and personal and congregational enrichment programs that lie before us. We will continue to bear witness to the gospel in all kinds of ways. To do this, we must all embrace the many exciting activities detailed in our worship program schedule recently released. There are troves of blessings for you in there. But also, there are outreach opportunities waiting for you to be part of so that we will be able to sustain our three cardinal objects namely, Preaching the Gospel, Building Community, and Touching Lives with the Love of Jesus. To these and other objectives we must remain faithful.
Please, note that we have a major program coming up in October namely, our annual International Cultural Week (ICW). The details are in the worship bulletin. I implore all our member nations to prepare adequately for this important event. God willing, some eminent personalities including some African Ambassador in Sweden will be in attendance. Also, we are working hard to be covered by the news media including channel 10 Christian TV. The Lord will help us in Jesus name!
Lastly, I want to thank the Lord for the various upgrading currently going on in our church building which I am sure many of you may have noticed. I implore you to support these efforts through increasing your giving but also, through answering the call for helping hands each time the need arises. I thank the church board and everyone in leadership for your faithfulness to the calling you have. God bless you, and God bless Equmeniakyrkan Hallunda in Jesus glorious name!
August 2017
