Mighty Leader

RISK Testimony

Looking back on our days in Germany I read the note we got with words from people in Skien. The first of them was making friends. For the one student in the DTS who did not have German or English as her mother tongue – a Danish girl, it meant a lot to be able to speak her own language. She became a good friend during these few days. She became a good friend during these few days. She was a great evangelist with a heart for Germany, so we got to inspire and encourage each other.

The second word – give Christians a push to go out. One guy that joined us to pray was so inspired that he decided to not only let us have the meeting at his youth group – but to bring the group out to evangelize after. Not only this Friday – but from now on. God speaks, he leads, only with Him can we make a difference!

Called to Missions!

Our first ministry was an intercession with the DTS in Berlin. We presented Risk and our vision for Europe. Afterwards everyone prayed for Europe, that people would be saved, the kingdom of God go forward and that he would send workers. After the intercession time one of the students (David) told me that he was really inspired and that he wants to be a missionary. Again when we left Germany he thanked us for inspiring him. God is faithful to send workers.

Mercy Milk

RISK Testimony

During a treasure hunt God was leading me to an old woman who had pain in her leg – it was going to be amputated… We got to pray for her and buy her milk – and in that way we experienced to be part of Gods care for this woman.

Luxembourg

RISK Testimony

Jan

Vi har hatt noen spennende dager her i Luxemburg.  Vi har gått på
skattejakt (treasure hunting) og virkelig opplevd at Herren har ledet
oss til mennesker. Mann i rød caps! Han møtte vi og fikk virkelig
oppmuntre. Ei garistvakt som ikke hadde lov til å snakke tilbake til
oss. Vi tok anledningen og oppmuntret ham skikkelig! HHåper bare at
han forstod engelsk. En annen spratt opp at stolen og takk oss da vi
delte om Gud. Vi kjente oss ledet til å gå over til en mann si : Jesus
elsker deg. Han lyste opp og sa, jeg er også en kristen . Han ble så
oppmuntret at han gav oss gratis billetter til museumet han jobbet i.
Det var et veldig nyttig besøk som lærte oss masse om Luxemburgs
historie. Vi har mange flere historier på lager, men de får vente til
en annen gang! Vi kjenner det er såtid i Luxemburg og mange er blitt
oppmuntret. En blir faktisk veldig oppmuntret av å oppmuntre andre.
Det kan anbefales!! Gud velsigne  dere alle.

Warm Me Up

RISK Testimony

Jon Peter

It was the last evening when we came back from town and two of the youth told us there was a worship time!  When I entered the worship area it was so warm that it felt like a wall hit me in the face!  I got encouraged about how they prayed out loud for Europe and so I joined the prayer and worship.  People were healed!  Some were well the next day too.  God is good!

A Great Nation

RISK Testimony

Hilde

We have been a team of 4 at this beautiful place of Svalbard/Longyearbyen. This is a place with tough nature and climate,but with hard working people that are amongst the most generous people we have ever met. The people of Longyearbyen are a wonderful mixture of nationalities and they all seem to have a smile on their face.
We pray that the people of Svalbard will experience more of God’s heart for them, that He will protect the industries here and help people believe in themselves and find the courage and creativity to start new areas of working places and industry for Longyearbyen. We pray that the nations of the world will have their eyes opened for this place and the example they are with the way so many cultures can live together and thrive, and even be the safest place on earth with hardly any crime.

We have prayed for wisdom and strategy for further ministry here, and for ways to bless the people we have met. Mainly the trip has been research about Svalbard: both practical information, and listening to God, for His thoughts about the place and people and for further ministry here.

People have lend us 2 flats and a car for our stay, and we have been blessed with beautiful weather and a free breakfast at the hotel. Our plan was to bless the people here, but I believe we have been blessed just as much them. We blessed in the invisible, and God blessed us back in the physical.

Svalbard is a place that people can`t help falling in love with. And my experience is just the same, so I am already looking forward to coming back

In the mean time I will do all I can to recommend it to and share Gods heart for this place to others.

Drop in the Ocean

RISK Testimony

Hailley Jo

Honestly, I felt like a whisper in the wind as we walked through the streets of Tetovo, Macedonia, on Saturday afternoon. Finding out the night before that there are only 40 evangelical churches in Macedonia, evangelism is illegal because you are either Muslim or Orthodox there is no need for people to bring in another ‘religion’, and 85% of the people in Tetovo are Albanian Muslim made my flesh exhausted and my mind immediately started putting limits on God’s power. As I walked through the beautifully distinct and authentic streets of Tetovo my heart stirred with deep compassion and longing for my brothers and sisters in this country.

The thought that continued to pop up and stick persistently in my mind was how can I not grieve for these people who won’t be with me in the Kingdom. As the call of prayer went off at the mosque I found myself weeping and wanting to fall to my knees crying out for righteousness to be established in the land and for the intimacy and revelation of Jesus to be released.

I do believe shifts were made in the spiritual realm. My reason, my mind has no place to put limits on what God can unleash. The only Christians in this city as far as we know are the YWAM staff. A family of five has been planted there and has received encouragement that God is coming with newness and breakthrough in this next season.

To be able to contend for this majestic nation of Macedonia, to know they are a part of mine and Jesus’ inheritance, and hearing words of hope specifically for this family reminds me I am a drop in the ocean but in the will of God what an impact my prayers, our prayers have made and make.

Two Divine Appointments

RISK Testimony

Sweden

Thomas and I went treasure hunting.  We prayed for the people whom we should meet, but as we walked around we didn’t see them.  So we just sat down on a bench and prayed tha God would lead the people to us Himself.  As we were sitting there, a man came and stood in front of us trying to light his cigarette.  His friend soon joined him.  They asked us where we are from and then we started a conversation with them about God.  They shared their life experiences, but then they had to go.
We were so sad that we didn’t get to pray for them and we prayed that we would get another chance to meet them.  It happened!  On the second night we met one of the guys and prayed for him with our whole team.  We gave him two copies of the Father’s Love Letter, one for him and one for his friend.

Girl in Red

RISK Testimony

Silvia Klatt

During our Romania trip I got to paint a prophetic picture for a girl in a coffee shop. I prepared the painting and just got “red” as a hint for who it was for. Once the coffee shop opened and I started painting the only person that was wearing red was a girl. Later I explained the picture and gave it to her. She was so encouraged and grateful.

God Planned

RISK Testimony

Dina Anderson – Montenegro!

Something very significant about our team’s trip to Montenegro was that God ended up planning our trip for us! There are approximately 100 evangelical Christians in Montenegro and we got to meet 7 of them during our short trip!  When we prayed for them, God wanted to encourage them using Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 60:1-2, and Isaiah 61:1-3.  Our entire trip was filled with divine appointments, God’s guidance, protection, favor, and grace!
I think it was especially cool to meet up with the pastors and experience how the words God had put on my heart to share were right into their situation and became an encouragement and a confirmation to them.

Muslim Faith

RISK Testimony

Team Italy

On Saturday, me and another teammate went over to two young men outside of the Duomo in Milan.  One was a refugee from Ghana, the other from Libya – both muslim.  We listened to their stories for a long time and showed love and concern about them.  Then we told them what we believe about Jesus.  The man from Ghana often had pain in his back in the morning and we prayed for him.  He really wanted our prayers and asked us to remember to continue to pray for him and his work situation.  Later, a third teammate came over and the muslim from Ghana told the third teammate that we had prayed for him and he said, “If I have no more pain tomorrow, then it is not them who has done something, but Jesus has healed me.”  It was amazing to hear this muslim’s faith after this conversation, because he had not heard the Gospel before.

Nagaadha (Peace!) from the fieldworkers in Ethiopia!

A little hi and hello from us in Ethiopia. After 7 weeks in Kofele, we are enjoying some days in Addis with hot shower and internet. We are doing well. The kids loves to hang out with Habib’s kids and Martin Elias goes around shouting: Yesus Goftadha! (Jesus is Lord, in the local Oromo language). Our work is in progress, but still we use much time just to adapt to the culture and language. We are priviliged to experience God’s faithfullness, his protection and blessings! God bless to you all! Love from us with sunshine and 25 degree C, The Frøen family

Precious Gift

RISK Testimony

Norway team (Ulefoss)

A little over a year ago, I became a mother.  With that I was not only given a precious gift, I was given a new identity, a new job, and a new lifestyle.  My child would now be my first priority in everything.  After a lot of back and forth, we decided to join a RISK team to Norway, Uletos.  My daughter’s needs still had to come first.  How could we be a part of spreading God’s word?  There was no time.  The pastor we worked with spoke to us about the importance of living a life that was pointing to Jesus at all times.  I needed that reminder.  I could still show god’s life by how I handle the everyday situations I’m in.  I think God used us to be a blessing for our team.  We could show the how to be a family serving God together.  God can use everyone, in ever stage of life, because nothing is impossible for Him!

Important Work

RISK Testimony

On one of our days in Bø we did evangelism with the goal to invite young people to the youth club we attended that evening.  As a girl from our group and me were walking around, we saw a man sitting on a bench by the bus stop.   He told us he had time, so we talked to him for quite a while and found out that he was 27 and believed that there were several gods up in the universe.  Still we were allowed to pray for him and his mother.  After the prayer he told us that he had felt it getting warm inside of his chest.  He also encouraged us saying that he really appreciated talking with us and that we were doing an important work.

Faith Club

RISK Testimony

Norway Team (Bø/Ulefoss)

On Friday night we were attending a Youth With A Mission club called “Faith Club”.  We played games with the kid and acted out a drama, followed by a testimony.  When we told one kid about the club prior to the evening meeting, he said, “Oh, we know  that club! That’s where we go sometimes instead of getting drunk!”There were mostly non-Christian kids there, around 20-30 total.  The drama we acted out really spoke to some of the youth.  What an encouraging night!

Blessed Conversation

RISK Testimony

Mike Beaudreau

I went to Kosovo during RISK.  On arrival in the capital city of Prishtina, we asked a young guy named Arbar if we could borrow his mobile phone to call our contacts in the city.  He agreed and we began just talking to him about his life in Kosovo.  After awhile he mentioned his leg was hurt and we asked if we could pray for healing for it.  We believe he was muslim, which is why he wouldn’t allow us to pray for his leg.  Once he left on his bus, we prayed for healing and for the truth of Jesus to reach him.  Overall, it was beautiful to have such a great opportunity right on arrival to the country.

Answered Prayer

RISK Testimony

Yanire Sierra Sastre, Denmark

“God answered my prayers by sending you”

This was the expression of Bent, a man who sold his cattle to follow Jesus.  He truly denied himself and took up his cross…” (Luke 9:23).  he runs an aid centre in Randers, Denmark, and collect clothes, etc. to help the mine workers in Ukraine.  He also shares the Word and love of god with them.  He was very encouraged since he is practically by himself and needed to clean a barn to make it a storage area for the aid.  It was a lot of hard work that had to be done and he was praying for weeks to get some extra help.  He thought the people coming to help (us) was a group of four.  When he say we were a group of nine he was very encouraged!  I think it was a nice touch from god to send so many people to help him.  He joined for the 12pm prayer time for Denmark and he got words of encouragement.  To God be the glory!

Skateboarder Healings

Hello, everyone!  To conclude RISK and build your faith, we’ll be submitting a few testimonies we’ve collected from the week.  This one is from Jeremy Holcombe.

We went on a trip to Oslo.  While there we saw a skateboarding gang and spoke with some of them.  We prayed with one guy, Torbjørn, and his toe was healed!  God gave us several words of knowledge for him.  He was so thankful that he went around to the rest of the skateboarders and asked if they had pain.  Two more were healed by Jesus!

RISK 2011 has begun!

France, RISK 2009!

We are very excited to be reaching out to so many European nations again! Tonight is the 2011 RISK Kick-Off.  In fact, a team is already in Estonia.  This year, we’re sending 50 teams to 46 countries to pray and share the Gospel.  You can read updates here on the blog, as well as our new Facebook page.

RISK has a Facebook Page!

RISK has a Facebook page now and you can find it here!

http://www.facebook.com/risk.europe

New missionary: Bjarte in Newcastle

This fall we sent Bjarte Buene to England to work with evangelism and prepare for the big olympic outreach in 2012. You can follow his adventures on the blog: http://bjartebuene.blogspot.com

 

RISK: Montenegro

Montenegro is a small but beautiful country by the Mediterranean Sea. The country consists of several ethnic people groups, and became an independent nation in 2006 after decades as a part of Yugoslavia. Over 70% of the population belongs to the Eastern Orthodox church, but there are only a few hundred evangelical Christians in the whole nation.

Would you consider bringing Jesus to the people in Montenegro?

Join RISK, a five day mission adventure in October!

Read more here:  ywamskien.com/risk  or contact us at info@uioskien.no

 

 

Picture source: http://montenegrotravelservice.com

SOE started a new year

“In some way, you have stumbled across the greatest treasure in World. You have cought a glimpse of the Kingdom of Heaven. You have cought a glimpse of Jesus. The discovery of this hidden treasure has compelled you to leave what you once desired. You no longer want ‘comfortable’. You are on a pursuit.”                                                Those are the first lines of this years SOE theme “Treasure hunters”.

“Treasure hunters” thats what SOE students of 2011- 2012 call themselves. Students from Norway, Belarus, United States and Brazil gathered 8th of september to be equiped and trained to go into all Europe and start new ministries. SOEs vision is to see hope restored in Europe, by seeing European cities transformed into the likeness of the Kingdom of God. To train, release and support young people into pioneering 1000 teams and churches in Europe.

“The kindom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and covered up. Then in his joy he goes and sells all that has and buys that field.” (Matthew 13:44) Its exciting to see what treasures the students will find and which fields they will go to bring more of Gods Kingdom on earth.

Krakow, Poland

Every year YWAM Skien workers go on a trip somewhere outside Skien to have fun and fellowship together. We had the privilege to go and enjoy the beautiful city of Krakow in Poland for 4 days. The time there was spent with exploring life in the area, meeting passionate Catholics and having fellowship times with each other.

YWAM Skien has a big passion to see  Poland Youth With A Mission ministries again. One of our main prayers during the days were to ask God about our part in seeing that work established in the coming years. Meeting with the locals we saw how God has made people ready for having discipleship work like DTS, they only need workers.

Like it says in Matthew 5:37- 38 “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few; therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers onto his harvest”. We believe God is doing and is going to do great things through Polish people.

God gave us great insight of the hosting culture  but also of us the base. We are ready to start the year with new fresh fellowship and passion! Pray with us for the coming  year, for Norway but as well for Europe and to the ends of the earth. God is ready and so will we.

Pray for all of Europe

 

For the upcoming RISK outreach we have made a prayer folder you can use to pray for every nation of Europe. Each day in September will be focused on one or two nations, including information about the country and prayer topics. This folder is an excellent tool to get to know our continent better, as well as preparing for the upcoming RISK event.

 

Download the prayerfolder here: http://ywamskien.com/public/documents/pfolder.pdf

Or e-mail us to get it sent in the mail: info at uioskien.no