Siunattua joulua..

I´m on my way to home.. :)
Have a blessed Christmas!!

Kuvasatoa 24-7 viikolta..

- One photo speaks more than 1000 words. -

These photos are from our 24-7 prayer room, Helsinki DTS.
























[all photos, (c) Laura Sarajärvi]

Life is ..

Exciting..An Adventure..
During the last couple of months, God has been doing SO many amazing things in my life. In September, while I was in London 24-7 prayer meeting, God really started to do a breakthrough in my life.. And it seems like there´s no end..

Once again I have just figured it out, that life with God can be SO exciting! When you fully live for Him, you can see the colours more brightly, and just start to desire more and more Jesus-centered life..

We had an exciting, exciting and awesome week in Siilinjärvi [=Our Ywam-base, Koivumäki, in East Finland ]. Our Rovaniemi DTS and Porvoo DTS came together and YWAM Finland staff also.. God really united us more and He spoke so many things to us and to our nation. I´m just so thankful to be able to work in Ywam Finland as time as this.
3 years ago, in my own DTS, we had only 5 students and because of that, we joined Estonian school.. And now God is blessing us back: 3rd school is starting in January.
[BTW, If you don´t know what to do next year, or you have always wanted to do a DTS, this is your chance!! :) Snowboarding DTS - www.ywam.fi/koivumaki

It´s just amazing to see how God is using us to do our part in His great plans for this nation! And that has been one of my questions as well; What is my part? What it is that God really wants me to do?

Last week we had a 24-7 prayer in our Porvoo DTS. And it was a good week indeed. :)
God answered to some of my questions; what He wants me to do.
First of all, He just wants us to spend more time with Him and alone with Him.

During that week I also taught about "Arts & Creativity ft. God". And I think it went pretty well..
Of course, there was some battle going on: I woke up in the morning, and I was feeling SO ill.. Fever, sore throat, flu.. At the same time I was just so excited! I knew that God is going to do something during my teaching and our creative workshops and someone doesn´t like it at all.. ;)
By God´s mercy only, I got the strength to play my part in that teaching, and God just did rest of it..
Walking in His strenght, in His plans, in His future, in His dreams, in His mercy is just Great!
Someone had painted these words to the prayer room wall:

" I don´t know what the future holds, - But I do know who holds the future!"

My prayer today is:God, let me to know You more and more. Use me more and more. I´m Yours. What is your prayer?

finally...

Wow.. It really took some time to up-date my blog here..
Couple years. Hopefully, from this on, I will do it more often :)


So, what´s up in my life:
I´m working in YWAM Finland.
During the summer I´ve been doing many different things;
teaching and helping out on the camps [Eurajoki, Lavia, Lahti]; Outreaches [Helsinki and Murmashi,Russia]; New Wave-magazine; promoting YWAM in Mission Conference in Ryttylä etc. Quite much travelling [too many hours, too many kilometres, too many broken cars... ;) ].




And finally, newiest New Wave is OUT!! [If you don´t have any idea what I´m talking about, its our youth magazine, published by ywam-finland. One of my ministries in ywam is work with that.. ]
This newiest nw [sounds funny.] is pretty-much-only about MISSIONS.
Articles like Bisnes vs. God; Eero Taina - David of Norway?; You have been called. Magazine is mainly in finnish, but there´s an english and swedish columns as well.
If you reallyreally :) wanna order it, mail us:
newwave.ywam@gmail.com




That´s pretty much all right now. Next month I´m going to visit London, UK. And it´s something to do with the 24-7 prayer movement.. But I´ll get back to that later on.
Be blessed my friend.