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Treasures in friends...

As I look back to the beggining as an amatuer in the capital...
learning to get my way around, getting to know people, learning the language, coping with the culture, adjusting to the weather and seasons, from warm, cold and darkness to spring time when there is sunlight and the sunset is late. The skiing and walk in the woods.

Through this and more, it was great to have friends who were with me, with whom we could share love and life.Indeed life is more about sharing our lives together thatn it is about having things. After time has past and we look back the path we have been through, the expereinces we had, the joys and the sorrows, i am certain of this... the greatest of treasures is the people we could share our life with.

Goodbyes....not my best part in life but when we have to say it, then we celebrate the time we had together and that we have known each other. Even more that we can continue to be a blessing to each other thought we are oceans apart.
Am frateful to God for this opportunity and the people I met.

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Liverpool - Relevant week!

Several feelings have appeared these days during this week. I was in Liverpool helping the CU (Christian Union) with the RELEVANT WEEK!, and I still do not know how to describe it. I cannot put the whole thing into words, but I could say that God did use the Christians students to talk and spread out the Good News in the Liverpool University.

That lasted for 5 days (1st to 5th of March). Me, Marius, velge and Bjorni were there from Norway to help. I had to tell them all the time that I was from Brazil and was only working in Norway for a year and so on.
We were staying with students at Uni halls. We woke up at 7 and every hall had its own prayer meeting from 7.30 to 8.30, then we headed to the university where we had breakfast. At 10am we had a meeting with some students and guests til 11am, with a devotion and prayer for the day where we encouraged each other to keep on with the good work and shared what had happened the day before. At 11am we met more students and we prayed for the questionares and flyers. From 11 to 1pm we had the action groups in action, which was basically inviting people to come to our Lunch bars with specific topics or asking them questions about the questionare, it all ended purposely to talk about Jesus and The Good News. The lunch bars were from 1pm to 1.40pm and afterwards there were always some people talking and having their questions answered. Then we had all the afternoons free, and we got to know a little bit of Liverpool - pretty cool. At 7 we had different kinds of meeting at university, with cake, tea, sweets, music and then Michael Ots would come and talk a bit about the Gospel and explain a parable of Jesus. We normally had very good conversations after that with non-Christians and Christians.

I just felt so different to be in this kind of environment where prayer is taken seriously and spending time praying is fundamental. While in Norway, I know that they do understand the importance of it and so on, but they just don't feel like coming to a prayer meeting or praying before doing something. I guess the formality that was put into prayer in Norway made it some sort of an unrelational thing. Maybe this is because I come from a catholic country. Well, this is my point of view, I certainly think that this is not yours (especially if you are Norwegian). Feel free to comment!

If possible, can you guys pray for some of these names, they are all students in Liverpool and are open to receive Christ as their saviour. I hope I receive some good news on the next weeks!

Patrick
Guy
Cedeid
Abhijit Mathad
There are others, but can't remember now.

Also pray for the committe who organised the week, they did an amazing job :)