Hope To Vienna

So as you know this past week we have done a week of evangelism, twice a day to really start impacting Vienna in run up to our Hope To Vienna event. Evangelism on the streets was a lot of fun, we had 3 YWAM DTS teams with us from Norway so there were 21 of us hitting the streets, a few locals joined us but it was not as many as we hoped. Nonetheless God made some awesome impacts. The event itself was on Saturday and Sunday and from what we can tell at least 10+ gave their lives to Jesus, we expect more but we are waiting to hear the response from the follow up team.


The night was a lot of fun. They say pictures speak a 1000 words so below are some pictures of some creative evangelism and the event.

We did worship on the streets (presence evangelism)

Myself and Lars Kristian (A DTS student from Norway) created prophetic art on the streets

A Creative DTS from Norway made a house on the streets and got young people to paint it we also did ballon modelling on the streets. God is a God of fun.

Main Hope to Vienna Event. It was a very successful two shows over 200 people at both events. The Reboot team is from YWAM Skien, Norway and is made up of DTS students.

So you maybe wandering what is next for us, well we have learned a lot from this event and we have decided that we want to push forward with doing bigger outreaches because they are making bigger impacts in the, streets, we can do more and people then direct contact with churches here which is what we desire. We are also going to start working with students here, we have a lot of contacts in this area and from my University experience it is make or break for many people as they are introduced to many influences which many are not good.

Picture Post

So much has happened and so I want to share with you with what is going on with pictures. Enjoy.

So here we are the team. (from left to right, Vegard, Bjarte, Me, Thijs). Recently we have had the pleasure and honour of doing many presentations at different youth events in churches and we have also had the pleasure of doing 3 sermons, two of them were here in CIG Church done by Thijs we were allowed to do both morning and evening service, and we recieved (x2) door offerings for our work here and recieved 900 Euros. Last Sunday I also had the pleasure of preaching at another Church called Four Corners, which went very well and many said it was powerful and relevant to them so I am glad God used it. They gave us 1000 Euros. It's exciting to see open these people are.

One of the things we love to do most is tell people exactly what Jesus thinks about them. Jesus really loves these people, he thinks each one is individually beautiful and he is delighting in each one. So we go up to people and ask them: 

"Hey this may sound strange but we believe Jesus really likes you and he wants you to know what he thinks of you. Could we listen to God and tell you what he has to say about you".

Scary for some to do but fun for us, and when people accept God has not failed to encourage each individual person. A power encounter with Jesus opens up the eyes to a relational God. This is what people are needing so badly.

Testimony
We have just recieved a Norwegian DTS team for about 2 weeks and one of the first things we did was take them out Treasure Hunting. Me and this one girl had a picture of an old woman with one of those wheelie storage bags outside Macdonalds. So a lady to this description shows up and we follow her to an food store entrance and we talk to her, it was a real shock for her to speak such good English as it is very rare for the older generations to be able to speak it. Anyway we shared about what we were doing and she was a Christian and loved Jesus but she seemed a little discourgaed so we asked if we could tell her what Jesus thought of her. We did this and she started to cry because it was not only just what she needed to hear but it dawned on her again at how personal and friendly Jesus was.

Sanme treasure hunt we also had a picture of a woman with in Macdonalds with the words make her happy and Happy Meal. Sure enough we go in and we felt drawn to this woman with her child  who happen to be eating a Happy Meal. She also turns out to be a believer and so we get to bless her child and God said some amaying things and we got to tell this woman again what Jesus thought of her. Jesus is so good, so loving, so kind and here in Vienna is revealing himself as the personal friend to others. 

You will also know by now that we are having an event on March 12 and now excitingly also March 13. The Churches really took the idea onboard. As a quick summary we are putting on this huge creative event to bring people to Christ, firstly young people but anyone who is open. We are inviting a creative team called Reboot from YWAM Skien who speacialise in media presentations, dancing, singing and other creative things. There purpose to teach the Gospel in a relevant and fun way. God has been good to me and has opned up opprtunities to use my design skills. I have been able to design a logo, a poster and flyer design, and a response card for the event itself. I am happy because of this open opportunity.