The past month has continued with a focus on outreach to help less privileged communities with donations of dry food and baby milk. We are amazed about how God is using these new ways of ministry opportunities to help with a very urgent need due to COVID to also be able to present the Gospel of Christ. Until last week 12 people have surrendered their lives to Jesus! We have established good connections with village committees to be able to see how we can help over the long term. In one of those areas (the Sea gypsy village), we had…
June Ministry Update from Mattias
FFI programming still adjusts and adapts to the needs of society due to C-19. This means the staff has to be flexible and ready to move outside their comfort zone in many ways. God has opened up new ways for us during this time to show the love of Christ effectively at the same time sharing the Gospel to people we would never meet if it hasn’t been for C-19. We praise the Lord for three new believers that surrendered their hearts to Him during our dry food campaign in the Sea gypsy village! The needs are constantly changing due…
May Update
This update is shared by Mattias. Mattias is the operations director of For Freedom International. The past 2 months have been full of challenges, surprises, and a season of reflection. Challenges and surprises because of the current C-19 situation, where most parts of our ministry programs had to change and be adopted to new needs of the society. The restrictions during lockdown prevented us as a team to help for a while which has been frustrating but it also has been a time of reflection of our personal walk with God, the team, and the ministry God has given us.…
Renting
Everything in the world is about to be wrapped up, so take nothing for granted. Stay wide-awake in prayer. Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything. Be quick to give a meal to the hungry, a bed to the homeless – cheerfully. Be generous with the different things God gave you; passing them around so all get in on it: if words, let it be God’s words; if help, let it be God’s hearty help. That way, God’s bright presence will be evident in everything through Jesus, he’ll…
Seeking God and Fasting
I have been going through waves in my faith. I have been feeling super close to God and then feeling distant. In the past I always took this to be a normal occurrence and accepted the feelings of ‘alone’ as okay. These times of distance were often after experiencing a large amount of God’s presence (often called a “Mountain top experience”). Having a dry spell is something we all go through, in a way it is normal, but I think there is a danger in simply accepting dry spells and doing so in a passive manner – as in expecting…