I’m doing life with 1 wife, 2 daughters and 1 sister here in Stockholm. I love them very much and I am quite scared about the fact that one day our house will be full of make up, hair spray, peelings and all that stuff. I think I need to talk my wife into having a go at a boy so we can get some balance here. I am so out numbered. It’s me and Nick Caine.
But I love my babes, I know I’m biased but I think they are the most beautiful girls ever!
Have you ever been in a room full of destiny? That’s how Team Night felt tonight…
I’m preparing for Team Night. It starts at 7 pm tonight. I am super pumped except for the fact that I have some kind of virus in my body that has caused me to loose my voice. (some people might like it =). I wish my body was like a Mac, that I would never have a virus. I love Mac.
Anyway, our Team Nights are a bit like a war room. A was room is a military place where strategies are formed, challenges discussed. This is the place were the heart and soul of the church come to put our brains together trying to figure out what to do next. Well tonight we have a lot of work to do. We are having our opening service in GK (Göta Källare), our new venue in just 12 days!!! Scary but that how we like it. I believe that with Gods help and our amazing team it’s gonna be fantastic.
I also have a very exciting word to share with the teams tonight! AND we have our first Volunteer Celebration. Everyone is getting a surprise. So, if your in a team or just want to come and check out what its like you are more than welcome. Such exciting days ahead. The stock market might be going down, but the Church is rising up! That’s you and I.
See you in Elimkyrkan at 7 pm.
Göta Källare also known as GK! I could not be more excited about where we are moving on Sundays as a church! GK will give us room and flexibility to start several new services, great room for Kids Church. There’s a really cool lounge to show hospitality in a great atmosphere for all people too. It is the largest venue we have had so far and it will help us to keep growing!
We are working like crazy to get everything ready for the big premier Sunday, 9th of November!
Here’s a few ways you can get involved and help:
1 Start serve on team, we will need to grow all of our teams.
2 Monday night on November the 3rd we will set up our equipment and do a lot of work in GK, you are welcome to come and help out.
3 Give to our "Shaping Our Future" offering. If you haven’t already given you are welcome to be apart of this. This is a huge help and helps us paying for everything in advance.
Well Church, we are ready for the next step in this amazing and exciting journey. The best of it all is that we now will have room for your friends and all the people who are about to experience a relationship with Christ for the first time. And to make sure that your Sunday is gonna be fantastic every week!
Hi Church! I’m really excited about this Sunday. We’re gonna release the news on our next venue! It is so much better than we thought when we started to pray and search for our next place. Make sure you come and celebrate with us on Sunday night.
On Sunday we are gonna present the result of our Shaping Our Future offering so far. I believe it will lwave us with a sence of gratefulness and faith about the future! If you haven’t had the opportunity to be a part of this offering which goes to our new venue you can still join in. Just go to our webb site www.passionchurch.se
It’s gonna be a Sunday full of excitment about the future, and a great party!
Oh yeah, Passion Church turned 2 years old today! What God has done in this short period of time is amazing. Let’s not forget that He is building this house, looks like He really knows what he is doing.
The best is yet to come!
Ok, here are some thought for today.
I love watching people serve God. Today I had the opportunity to lead worship. I don’t do that a lot but because we had a guest speaker i figured I’ll have a go. Because of this I was there earlier than usual. I loved the way people come early to serve, I know there’s a lot of other stuff they could have done today. Stockholm is a big city with a very fast pace life and there’s many reason why people would want to use the Sunday to relax, BUT because they choose to serve every week people’s lives get changed. I really love seeing their enthusiasm and zeal for the house of God and for other people.
I had the great joy of helping unpack some stuff today along with our volenteers and I really loved it.
Pastor Kjell-Axel and Vivianne Johansson from Elim Church was ministered today and we were all really blessed.
Tomorrow if everything works out we will sign on our new venue at 11 am. Please pray that everything works out. I can’t wait to tell you all about it on Sunday! We really need it, to day was totally packed out again! We probably gonna add another service right away in the new venue. And Kids Church gonna think they arrived in heaven when they see their new facilities!
I love our Church!!! You guys are so amazing, it is my honor to do live with you all. Let’s finish this season strong. Because greater thing are yet to come and greater thing are still to be done in this city!!!
I just had coffee with Kjell-Axel Johansson, the pastor of Elim Church in Stockholm. We meet once a month and I love it. He and his church had been so supportive of Passion Church all the way and I really honor him for that. I always leave lifted, challenged and inspired after our coffees. I think it’s so important for me as a pastor to have someone who looks out for me, my inner life, my priorities and motives.
We have had the privilege of using his church venue, pretty much every week since we started the church. And although we are so grateful for that he insists that it’s their pleasure. Elim Church and Passion Church may look a lot different in appearance but definitely share the same passion for Christ and the local church.
This coming Sunday we have the honor of having Pastor Kjell-Axel speaking in our church. When we talked about it today I realized it is our 2 year anniversary this coming Sunday. And he preach on our 1 year anniversary as well. We haven’t planned it that way, but maybe God has =)
He is a fantastic speaker and a man of God. You don’t want to miss it!
Hey Church. We are getting close to finalize the deal for what possibly could be the venue for the next step of this amazing journey. It would be great if we as a church pray for this the next couple of days!
Pray that we God would direct every step and give us peace about this new place! Pray that Gods favor would give us an amazing deal so we can grow the church here and make room for a lot of new people!
I’ve said it before and i will keep saying it again. This is a great time to serve God and build His House!
God is in control of the future!
So where have I’ve been? Well as many of you know the latest edition to the Nielsen family arrived pretty fast and unexpected. Her name is Angelina Africa Hope Nielsen. To add "Africa" to her name was really a great way to connect with my wife. She grew up in Africa as a missionary daughter. "Hope" was added after we found out that Angelina has a serious heart problem. She will have to go through complicated heart surgery in 6 months. But we are so at peace with the fact that there is Hope in Jesus. He is in control and He is the Hope for humanity and also for Angelina!
Lina and I want to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts for all the love, support and prayer from our Church and friends around the world. I think over 20 churches was praying for Angelina last Sunday. I would never want to go through anything like this without being part of a loving Church. We were so blown away about the care from all of our family in Passion Church.
We often say in Passion Church that we have no members, just family!
We had the huge honor of having our pastors Brian & Bobbie Houston speaking in Passion Church. It was fantastic! They really love Stockholm and our Church. And we love them. They have given us this awesome opportunity to build a great church for God in Stockholm. They really believe in us and are fully behind!
The venue with 700 seats was pretty much packed and 41 people made a decision that night to invite Jesus into their lives. How awesome is that!
There is so much awating us in the future Church, God is up to something! Anything can happen and it probably will =)
