Good News for the month of August 2024 F4G!

 

AUGUST 2024 F4G!

Dear Ones,                 We are so thankful for each and everyone of you. We want to start by apologizing to those of you who may have missed our news last month. It seems that our Mail chimp account was possibly hacked. We were not able to access it and sadly may have lost some of our email addresses that were there. We have now opened a new account and hope and pray for all to go smoothly from now on.

1. A Life Transformed 2. Encounter   3. Café Røde Sol  (Red Sun)            4. The Door 5. Bible School  6. Danish Lessons 7. Tracts 8.  Ukraine Outreach                                                                                                                        9. The Vineyard 10. What’s App Messages.

1 A LIFE TRANSFORMED: Romans 12: 2 And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. The Bible does not suggest that there is any other way to experience a genuine change. In Mark 1:15 Jesus said Mark 1:15  “The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand. Repent, and believe in the gospel.”  Repent means to change our way of thinking. To cause our thought life and speech to line up with God’s thoughts and way of speaking. In Matthew 28:20  Jesus said,  teaching them to observe all things that I have commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen. If we will renew our minds to the Word of God, repent, turn from our own ways of reasoning, and observe all  that He has commanded us, our lives will be totally transformed, like a silk worm turning from a cocoon to a beautiful butterfly rising above the obstacles and hardships of life. We have seen such a beautiful transformation in a precious young lady that the Lord brought to us when she was especially needy and broken. Not only was her heart broken, but many things in her life were out of place.  Some of the things were: Her relationship with her mother was broken and basically non existent. This is now being restored and they are getting much closer. For six months her car was in and out of the mechanics workshop with a problem that just didn’t seem to come right. This was no small cause of frustration for both our friend and the mechanics. After fighting for so long, we encouraged her to pray over the repairs. She did. The Lord also laid it on her heart to take a much kinder approach. It is now fully repaired! On top of that, as a “bonus” they have offered to change her winter tires to summer tires each season free of charge. Not to donate the tires, but to change them for her for free – for as often as is needed. They said for life and they put it in writing! She is a member of Falck and received 3 free massages. However, she was in need of more. When contacting them they readily offered her 6 more free massages! She is finding more and more that God’s favour is on her! This, and more has happened just within the last 1-2 months as she has given herself wholeheartedly to studying the Word and drawing close to Jesus. She comes to us twice a weeks and loves to sit under the Word for hours! She is being transformed and we praise the Lord for being His instruments to bring her closer to Him!

ENCOUNTER: After a long pause due to summer holidays, changes, etc. we have now started having Encounter Meetings again. We mainly focused on gathering together to pray for the work in Vollsmose and spend some time worshiping the Lord together.

CAFE RED SUN: Café Røde Sol (Red Sun) also started up. This is also referred to as the Women’s Café. Every Friday night the women of the community (mainly Arabs) get together to discuss a subect and share an ethnic meal. Last time we were approximately 40 women and were served some Syrian dishes. We also discussed the subject of security concerning our children and young people and what is considered permissible versus too restrictive. It is a good way for me to get to meet and know people.

THE DOOR: While the Vineyard church was closed during the summer , we attended the  Dorr run by a South African pastor. Philip and I also teamed up with the pastor and his wife for some street witnessing a few days later. Three souls were led to the Lord!

BIBLE SCHOOL: This month we started running Bible School. Rather than choosing random subjects we felt led to start from the top and run through the Bible School curriculum we have on hand and that we ourselves have greatly benefitted from. We are praying for more attendees. Meanwhile we will continue with the ones that show up— even if only one. We pray that others will catch on as the word spread and have already been told that several others are interested. We just might have to change the day!

DANISH LANGUAGE SCHOOL: Philip has been invited to attend a free Danish course. He is in School for 2 and a half hours every Monday and Wednesday. He is doing quite well, according to the teacher, with both reading and writing the language, but needs to work on the pronunciation. Danish is know for being a language that is difficult for most foreigners to pronounc

TRACTS: We prepared three new tracts: One in Ukrainian/Russian  And two in English: that we plan to also translate: Born Again. Are You? And The Father’s Love Letter including a message on: You are Not Alone.

THE VINEYARD: We have found that there is a real need for a  “coming to a knowledge of the truth” as it says in 1Timothy 2:4. We are seix-zing every opportunity to serve and minister in the church the Lord led us to. There are many young people who love Jesus but who do not yet have an understanding of the gospel, or we might say, a revelation of all they received when they received Jesus and so we like to sit and minister to them when possible. This month we were invited to join the staff. We attended our first meeting which gave us a chance to give input and share some ideas that we hope to be found helpful and implemented! We have also been asked to head up the street ministry and shared some ideas along those lines as well.

REACTIONS TO WHATS APP MESSAGES: Since leaving South Africa about 9 months ago we have been in touch with a lot of the people there via our morning devotionals. We have also been able to add several people to the list since coming here. It is a pleasure for us to share some of the reactions here: · Yes Rita ☺ we still going every Monday and it so awesome.... the group of Nomzamo is more matured now. They share the word, they even share the bible freely and they even share their bible scriptures on the group....☺☺☺ But they just missing you a lot … (This is the Bible study group we started in Nomzamo long ago. It is good to know the work is carrying on). · Thank you so much for the everyday word, I really appreciate it. It motivates me a lot cause I've been feeling down a lot these days because of not being able to work, but these daily good news uplifts me a lot! · This person has been on the receiving end of our What’s App morning devotions for a long time, but suddenly stopped responding. Through a roundabout way we were able to get back in touch, and this is what she said: Oh, Rita, what a lovely surprise. I got your message just now. I am so happy because I lost my phone. It fell in the water, so it was damaged and I didn’t have any way to contact anyone. So, thank you so much for this. I am so happy! · I tried speaking in tongues the other day and I have never felt so much peace after doing it for maybe 15 minutes. I’ve always held back because I “didn’t have it” but after the message on Thursday, if I remember correctly, was an inspiration to speak up without hesitation and I was blown away by it. — (The Word shall not return void, it shall accomplish that whereto it is sent.) · Such a blessing to have the word but we need to partake of the bread of Life and rightly divide the word of God so that it doesn’t hold us bondage. Thank you for sharing the beautiful principles. Appreciate you · Morning just wanted to say thank you for praying for me to get a job. I started last week Wednesday I am working now! · True, Amen sometimes our choices make get us in trouble and we say God is the one who did this to me. NO! God is love and mercy to us,  no matter what we do his  anointing  is always  with us .what a lovely  Father  we have! Be blessed Rita These are just a few of the many reactions we receive to the Word. It is a blessing and a privilege to be able to pass on some of the eternal treasures that have been committed to us and we are so inspired to see how His Word works in the lives of those who receive it and believe it.

PRAISE REPORT: Residence Permit:      We are so happy to let it be known that Philip now has received residence permit in Denmark. Our first application was sadly denied, but after much prayer, communication back and forth, help from our family in the Statess everything has now fallen in place. Praise the Lord for His goodness. Package: Before leaving South Africa we shipped three boxes to Denmark. Sadly one was returned to South Africa as it weighed about one kg above the allowed weight. We were quite concerned as it contained all our summer clothes, shoes/sandals, and other essentials. But thanks to the Lord’s miraculously answer to our prayers and the help of some precious friends in South Africa the box was collected at the South African post office today! Praise the Lord and many thanks to our friends!

CONTACT DETAILS: Please remember our new details are as follows: PayPal: force4good.fvs@gmail.com Rita Olsen : force4good.fvs@gmail.com Philip (Antonios Michalitsis) flame1950@gmail.com

The amazing News forth the month of Jun!

 

1. Bible Studies                   2. Leadership Meeting        3. Street Outreach 4. The Ukrainian Ministry    5. The Vineyard                    6. The Encounter 7. Concert                           8. Personal BIBLE STUDIES: For the past six weeks or so we were asked to hold weekly Bible studies to stand in the gap for the Encounter Meetings. The initial plan was for us to alternate between Bible studies in our home and Encounter meetings every other Thursday. However due to unforeseen events the Encounter Meeting had to be put on hold for some time.We are happy to say that the Encounter meetings have now been continued, although there will be a period of summer holiday where they will again be put on hold. We will however aim  to carry on with weekly Bible studies in our home for whoever is available. We have had full house, and one time only one person attended. But we have determined to carry on  as we look to the Lord to bring whomsoever He will. We also started regular Bible study classes in a cafe on the walking street. This is to make the studies available for those who are not able to come out to our place on a Thursday night after work. At these meetings we emphasize discipleship training material and focus on learning how to reach the not yet reached. LEADERSHIP MEETING: We attended yet another leadership meeting. We had a wonderful time of fellowship.Before the meeting was over we had a time of worship and the lead pastor shared the future direction of the church. Philip was asked to be in charge of  the barbecue STREET OUTREACH: .      We have had some exciting days of doing street outreach. This month 7 souls were led to the Lord via our efforts. Last time we went out we met a young woman from Ukraine who received the Lord with us. She speaks fluently English and when we told her about out ministry to the Ukrainians and our need for a translator she said that she would love to help. We are very excited about this!   THE UKRAINIAN MINISTRY: THE VINEYARD CHURCH: \ We are having communion regularly and Philip is frequently asked to help serve at this occasion!   Here Philip was asked to share his personal testimony. Time was limited so it was only possible to touch on a fraction of some of  the wonderful and amazing things the Lord has done for us over the many years of us living on mission for Jesus!   One of the highlights of the church this month was that three people requested to be baptized testifying of their surrender life. Another highlight for the church this month was prayer. A prayer-room was set up and everyone was invited to book time in the prayer room. I was asked on a different day to also share my testimony but to mainly emphasize the importance of prayer. Philip is also regularly asked to help man the bar selling juice and soft drinks. And ensure that the lunch is being paid for as well Sunday lunches at the church is a wonderful time for us to bond. It makes it easy for us to gather over a meal without having to do all the hosting at home. It has been a big blessing to us and has helped us get to know our church family much better.   THE PRAYER ROOM: Here we are in the prayer room that was set up at the church. We are so thankful that we took advantage of it and didn’t settle for just praying privately at home! THE ENCOUNTER: At the Encounter the prayer theme was continued. We spent time hearing from the Lord and received some beautiful words of direction and encouragement for the ministry in Vollmose, which mainly consists of reaching out to non-Christians. We had an end-of the season meeting. The Encounter will be closed for the summer holidays as the summer is quite short here and most people like to travel and take advantage of the warm weather while it last. We may however continue to host weekly Bible studies for those that are available and would like to attend. CONCERT: We attended a beautiful concert (free of charge). It was the graduation concert of one of our precious church family member. She played the cello and it was like transporting us into another realm. She is Finish and her husband is from Sweden. They have since left Denmark to return to Finland, but are now receiving our daily devotional! Since coming to here we have added at least 10 people, which we are very thankful for. This is however only the beginning of much more to come. Praise the Lord!   PERSONAL:     Being able to travel all over Fyn, the island we stay on, without extra expense (as our pensioners bus card covers all) we have decided to visit all the different major city (which comparatively speaking are small) . Here we visited Nyborg and the bridge in the background is the 2nd largest in the world! With much love,   Rita and Philip! Please remember our new details are as follows: PayPal: force4good.fvs@gmail.com NordFyns Bank Rita Olsen Reg. #: 6869 Account #: 0001058710 BIC/SWIFT Code: NSBKDK21 IBAN DK2168690001058710 PS: If you are in the European union you can transfer fund vis SEPA with very minimum or no fees. For another easy and simple way to transfer money internationally please visit: https://wise.com/

NEWS FOR THE MONTH OF MAY!!

 

1. The Encounter Meeting 2. Bible Studies 3. Street Outreach 4. Tracts 5. The Vinyard Church 6. Women's Club 7. Personal   ENCOUNTER: Here is Philip teaching at the Encounter Meeting. Philip taught on John 15 and had group discussion questions to challenge everyone to get involved and find personal application. Sadly the Encounter Meetings had to be temporarily closed down. Meanwhile we have been asked to stand in the gap by hosting weekly Bible studies in our home which we are very happy to do. BIBLE STUDIES: Photo # 1: When A, arrived at our Bible study she was in pain—headaches, neck and shoulders as well as her heart. Philip reassured her that he would pray for her but suggested that we first spend time together in the Word. By the time we finished all A’s pain was gone and she didn’t need prayer! Praise the Lord for the healing power of His Word! Photo # 2 K. came to us and stayed over 3 hours. She was very broken and in need of lots of ministry. Her boyfriend had ended his life 8 weeks ago and not really knowing the Lord and His love she was under a lot of guilt and condemnation. Photo # 3. J. a very precious friend from Iceland was coming over every Monday for the last couple of months or so. He left for Iceland as he want to study to become a doctor but did not find and opportunity here. However, the day before he left he received news that he passed an entrance exam so he might return! STREET OUTREACH: Reaching out to people on the walking street in Odense. We will be looking for a suitable place there for us to meet weekly, with people from our church as well as new people being reached. In the 2nd photo above Philip is distributing tracts (Ukrainian on one side and Russian on the other) — at least one new one a month, sometimes more!   TRACTS: We have been working on producing a variety of tracts to use in our street outreach. We have produced one brand new tract on “Does God Exist?” a very current question for many here. Other tracts were produces while we were in South Africa, and we are now working on translating some on a variety of subjects into Danish. As seen!   WOMEN'S CLUB: Every Friday night there’s a Women’s Club meeting in the mall by our house. As the name of the meeting indicates it is exclusively for women. For that reason I have started attending these meeting on my own. They are very informative as far as knowing what activities, courses, etc. are made available to help the foreign community. As you can see here it is mainly people from Arab nations attending. I made real good friends with someone from Iran and am looking forward to her in a couple of weeks when she returns from Copenhagen. Meanwhile we have also been getting together with our dear friend from Lebanon. She opened her heart about how she has to be extremely careful about what she says to whom due to the various Muslim fractions present. We shared how we as Christians likewise need to be careful as a dear friend has received threats due to his beliefs.   THE VINYARD CHURCH: We really appreciate the custom our new church here has of eating lunch together at the end of every Sunday service. It makes it so nice and easy to get to know each other and form more friendships as we don’t seek to quickly get out the door but have some nice incentive for staying to fellowship...and having had a worm meal means that we don’t have to cook at home on a Sunday. Philip now helps out regularly at the bar selling juices, etc, and I take regular turns translating the Danish sermons into English! PHILIP'S BIRTHDAY: This month we celebrated Philip’s birthday. We took the bus to a nearby city located on the coast. We found a restaurant right by the water and enjoyed some delicious sandwiches!   FOR THE NOTICEBOARD: The Vinyard church produced this poster to advertise our Bible studies. It will be on the church's billboard!   TESTIMONY: OUTSTANDING NEWS: This is a most glorious PRAISE REPORT! For almost two years we have been fighting in prayer for and with our precious South African friend S. She was diagnosed first with colon cancer, then cancer of the lungs and lastly cancer of the brain. The two different types of chemo did not work, and it was now suggested that she undergo radiation. S. went through so much suffering  in vain from these treatments. However she never let go of her faith and would call upon us and other friends when she needed a special boost. She also went to prayer/healing meetings and the last time she went she was completely delivered and healed. She is no pain free and able to fully function. Praise the Lord!   CONTACT DETAILS: Email: force4good.fvs@gmail. com flame1950@gmail.com Please remember our new details are as follows: PayPal: force4good.fvs@gmail.com