Thursday, March 29, 2007

Malawi [Photos]

Finally.. Here´s a few photos from my trip to Malawi back in February.


















[ View from the house the team lived in; Visiting Michael Howard´s new living room:) with our new Finnish friends who are in the bible school in Malawi; Visiting savannah; Enjoying fresh squeezed pineapple; Preaching at the church - And what a worship they have :) ; and so on. ]

Enjoy. At least I did.










































Photos: (c) Emmi, Hanna & Inka - DTS Malawi-team 2007

Thursday, March 15, 2007

"BF - Blog Fashion?"

This is what happens middle of the night when you are too tired to go to sleep.. You just start to do things like this..

Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Back in da town..

Wow, time really flies.. I got back from Africa, Malawi already 3 weeks ago.. And it was great! Sweet, warm, friendly, exciting.. Many cool and nice stories! Right now I´m too lazy to write them down, so please, if you wanna hear more, give me a call :)

After Africa I spent a week at the confirmation camp in Eurajoki. It was quite hard, but a blessed week. I got also very sick end of the week, and I´m still little bit recovering from that, but I´m also so thankful for God what HE did during that week. How He gave me wisdom and strength all the way during the week.. How I got to speak into those youth lives and pray for them and teach and so on..

My way back home was also quite exciting
.
Like I said already, I got very sick. So, I was having a TERRIBLE head ache (almost a migreen) and fever (which I haven´t had for a years) and I had to travel still 5 hours back to Helsinki. THEN, when I got to Eurajoki from the bush where the camp was, I checked my bank account.. And I didn´t have enough money to get back to home..

So, there I was.
Stuck.
Sick, tired and without money - far away from home. Finally I got to lend some money for my bus, but in the b
us I found out that because of the different bus companies, I can not buy my ticket all the way to Helsinki, but first to Turku and from there to Helsinki, and it was more expensive. So, there I was sitting on the 1st bus to Turku and counting my money. And I didn´t know if I should cry or laugh, but I was still lacking 0,70€ :).
I just prayed and asked from God what I should do.. Then He showed me couple girls sitting on the bus - that I should go and ask from them.
After some prayer, battle inside of me and creative ideas, I went to the girls and explained my situation:That because I was sick I wanted to take this bus and not to wait 3 more hours and in the bus I found out that it´s more expensive.. And I´m missing 0,70€.. "Could you give me that money, or can I sell you a stamp - I have lots of stamps in my pocket.." Well, the girls didn´t want my stamps and they gave me 1€ :)

So, sometimes God really takes us to the humble place, sometimes we have great possibilities to take some steps of faith and midst of this all: He is always so faithful!!
So, I got back safetly home in Helsinki. My fever was something like 38 and I had even 0,30€ extra money :) God is good and humorous!!
Couple days after that I travelled to Sweden.. Now I´m back in Helsinki and again on my way to Eurajoki and Turku.. Exciting days coming.

Okay, gotta go. :)