FIBC Christmas Concert!

Excited!!! Forever Gloria to You Lord! Amen! Soli Deo Gloria!

Singing a solo in one of the songs! :) I love being in the choir. May all of our praise go to You! Wish everyone could come! It's going to be awesome!

Brrrrrr....

The temperature here has totally dropped.... it's getting so cold here! The lowest today will be 7C!! And for those that don't think in terms of Celsius I'll do the conversions for you. It is equivalent to 44.6 F! Man, I gotta put away the sandals and flats already. That's a dilemma though because I only brought running shoes, my really cheap H&M flats that are now ripping, and my sandals that have been tearing up because I keep stubbing my foot on the cobblestone sidewalks.

So things to buy: BOOTS and COAT. But they are so expensive! And I'm PO. Very very PO.

Been trying to look for a part-time job, but I keep getting rejected because I don't speak Danish (well). I feel so discriminated against! If everyone can speak English here - can't they just hire me?? So sad...there's this restaurant/cafe right around the corner and they are looking for a part-time worker, but they want someone Danish-speaking. So seriously the only jobs that minorities do here are: dishwashing in restaurants and cleaning in hotels. EEEKKk.... I really don't want to do those kinda jobs but I think I just might have to. Sigh...But pray for me please! Not just so that I can earn money, but also so that I can give to the church here and also serve others!

But let's see what else can I update on... Did I tell everyone that I'm an associate member now at FIBC?! It's been good to have the right hand of fellowship extended to me! What was really neat was that my church made the new members and i stand in front of the congregation and stay there when the service was done. Then people gladly welcomed us, shook our hands, and gave us hugs to invite us in for fellowship. It was really warm :)

Church has been pretty good so far. I shouldn't complain - there are just minor details I think that might get to me, but who's to say that I know everything. I need to stop being arrogant and prideful that I think I know more or I know how to run a church or how the preaching should be done. But Pastor Erik who is on sabbatical preached on Sunday! I was glad to finally hear him preach! He was challenging us a lot to think about spiritual leadership - and how are we doing on having our encounters with God on a daily basis, how is our character/integrity, how are we training to be spiritual leaders? And the goals of spiritual leadership should lead to spiritual maturity, to leadership itself, and to glorify God! Really short summary of his sermon...But yes I'm being challenged here to how I can be a spiritual leader during this short time in Copenhagen.

Joined the Connect LIFE group which is like our college/young adults group and hopefully if scheduling works will be a part of the W omen's Bible Study group going through Colossians! I really want to be in Pastor Tom's wife's small group Barb...but I don't know we'll see what happens and why God is making things they way they are happening! But another exciting thing with church is that I'm serving in the music ministry! The opportunity to encourage people through singing has been really good! Praising the Lord with our voices is something that my soul loves to do. :)

And for school, it's already the third week of school! Classes have been good so far - except trying to understand one of my professors is really hard because he can't really speak English and he stutters quite a lot to try to find the right words. So yeah - testing my patience and respect for him because yeah it's pretty boring if you can't understand his explanations on theories of Marginalization Sociology. But it's only once a week for that class so I'm glad. Haha. I'm also taking Mediasociology which is much much more interesting. Probably a topic that WuWuWu knows more about. :) Kinda interesting though to try to relate to myself when I try to not be part of the media culture because 1 John 2:15 tells us: Do not love the world nor the things in the worl. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him." My media should be the Bible! I might have ideas for a paper for this class about commentaries, sermon audio messages, and the Bible and how that type of media affects Christians. Just an idea.

Well, gotta get going on reading more about this media information techonolgy society that we're in. Bleh. And I need to do my laundry - no more undies left! Haha.

My First Weekend in København!

On Saturday went to go venture out again! This time I went to Island Brygge to see this event called Kulturhavn that they have every year!



Got to see cool stuff like Kajakpolo!



Kajakpolo is cool...it's a mix of what they said "handball," waterpolo, and kayaking. Haha. I wanted to jump on in there to play - it was all these like macho men playing against each other. It was funny - because sometimes they just purposefully tipped each other's boats so that they wouldn't get that waterpolo ball. It was fun to watch!

Saw other crazy Danish activities like diving off this wooden diving board thing. Haha kids would jump from meters high!



Other weird activities but looked really fun was trampoline diving! Watch this kid do like a somersault backflip!


And then I watched a full on bboy battle. There was one kid that was maybe 12? And he was pretty good for his age. The crowd loved him.



Haha but the funniest one was a GRANDMA bboyin'! She was horrible...funny though because she actually did some freezes. She was BUFF...I will not be like that...



Battle! Here's a video!



Here's another slideshow of pictures from Saturday:

Other good news! I think I have found my spiritual temporary home here in Denmark! :) First International Baptist Church! I'm going to love walking or hopefully riding my bike to church every Sunday. Here's why... so pretty isn't it!

Here's the front of the church:



I was so excited to see other believers worshiping God and professing that Jesus Christ was crucified on the cross for us! Their NVT (new visitors team) was really nice - she even like patted my back and rubbed it a little as I walked in. Haha. But the songs were also very God centered and Bible centered - sang: "Open the Eyes of my Heart", "To God be the Glory", "The Love of God", "How Deep the Father's Love", and "I Am Thine, O Lord." Hymns = :) The music leader had great times of teaching in between almost each song. :) Once I heard the piano into to "How Deep the Father's Love" I smiled. I love that song - because really it focuses on Christ and Him crucified. FIBC also practices communion every first Sunday of the month! :) Reminded me of Lighthouse. Glad to see that they remember Christ crucified and practice it as a church body. They also have membership as well - and I'm thinking about becoming an "Associate Member" not a "Full Member" because I still want to be a member at Lighthouse! But then I have still pray about it because I don't know when I'm going to be traveling, but I can still serve if I'm just a "Participant in Fellowship." It was great to see that they had many different Bible study groups throughout the week and also a young adults/college ministry called Connect. Although Pastor N.Erik Nielsen is on sabbatical right now, he is still at church - just not preaching on Sundays. Right now a couple from the US that are missionaries through the IMB (International Mission Board) will be staying until next September. Pastor Tom Suitor and his wife Barb are going to be mentoring Pastor Erik and his wife. Although Pastor Tom and I think Pastor Erik do not do expository preaching, but I am not going to let that be what holds me back from this church. I think this church is the closest I can get to like-mindedness with Lighthouse. I spoke with Pastor Erik and Pastor Tom for a good while - learning about their past and where they are from. Pastor Erik when to Talbot School of Theology and interned at Whittier Hills Baptist Church. Pastor Erik also has FIVE boys between the ages of 6 and 13! How awesome is that. But anyways, I could say more and more - I'm just so glad they preached Christ crucified by talking about Communion - the Bread and the Cup. He was saying that Christ took such ordinary everyday things like bread which people back then would eat everyday. He took the wine as well - something that they would drink everyday. These things are such common elements in life - that the image in mind that people should have when they eat bread or drink the cup of wine is to remind you of Jesus' sacrifice. When you take that cup and drink if should remind you of the blood of Christ. This is sorta paraphrased: "If we are to follow Him, must remember what it cost to follow Him - even to Gethsemane (Place of Crushing). No longer that I live but Christ that lives in me." He preached against the "prosperity gospel" too - and said if you want to follow Christ - it will cost you!

He said to read Psalm 118 too - and when we read it, we should keep in mind the Lord's Supper and Jesus' death. Must do that tonight.

But :DDDDD! I think I'm staying at FIBC. All the other English churches here are charismatic, BIG, or really far.

Haha, another cool thing that happened on Sunday at church was that I got connections to get a free bike! His name is Aiban and he's just leaving the country to do his PhD in London - after trying it I asked him how much it would costs, but he said he didn't want any money! What a generous man!!!! It would costs me 450 DKK ($90) at least! Yay!!!

Well that was my weekend! Will update more on what's been going on this week!

I'll just say:
"Jeg kan ikke forstå dansk!"
( I can not understand Danish!) Haha don't even try to pronounce that.