Newsletter September 2024

1.Bible studies                            2. Encounter                               3. Outreach 4. The Vineyard                          5.Reactions and Testimonies      BIBLE STUDY GROUP: We are very happy that our little Bible study is growing as the Lord is adding new students. It is wonderful to find like-minded people here in Europe who eagerly seek after truth. We have much to be thankful for. We are looking forward to more people joining as well in the near future. ENCOUNTER: We now meet once a month to pray for our local area and the large foreign community here. There are many needy people and we are seeking the Lord for His wisdom and guidance. We are reaching our local foreign community. We have to be very discreet and go slow, and can also not take or show too many photos. It is however very rewarding and we are learning along the way. Here we are walking a mother and her children back home as it is now getting dark early here. Our longest day is almost 20 hours long and the shortest only about 7 hours—which is also why we have light-saving hours starting again in about a month. DANISH STUDY: As mentioned earlier Philip has no gotten his ‘permanent” residency permit. It comes with several conditions, but if we are still here in five years and have kept the conditions he can get a permanent residence permit without the attached conditions. For that there is one condition and that is that he has passed a level 2 Danish test. Here he is studying at home. He gets 5 hours a week, and has been impression the teachers as a very good student! OUTREACH: We regularly print up gospel tracts to distribute during our times of outreach, The tract we are holding here is on the salvation message and how to be born again. Our desire is that all may be saved and come to a knowledge of the truth. (1 Timothy 2:4) This month 3 people received the Lord while many more were left with the salvation message. We meet many foreigners here as well. Seeds are sown that we pray will spring up into everlasting life! THE VINEYARD: WELCOME DINNER: Every so often the church will host an evening dinner for new members. During this time the vision of the church is shared and we fellowship to get to know each other. This time a precious woman from Iran and her teeage son attended. They are very hungry for the Word and also attended a fellowship while in Iran. STAFF MEETING: We also attended a staff meeting. All staff members are responsible for an area of the church ministry. Philip and I were asked to head up the outreach, which we are very happy to do. During these meeting we pray over the work and are able to share our thoughts and suggestions. We shared that we see the need for a more in dept disciple training program. Thankfully our suggestion was taken and the first of such meetings will take place the 1st of October. There ill be teaching and group discussion! We look forward to attending and are expecting good fruit. UPCOMING CHURCH WEEKEND: During the month of October there will be a church weekend, meaning that we will go to a venue located in another city (which happens to be the city where I lived for the 110 years I went to school. There will be guest speakers arriving from England and over 70m people have signed up this far. We will report more about this next month! WHATS-APP MESSAGES AND TESTIMONIES: WHAT THE PEOPLE SAY: · Exciting reading! I don’t manage to read it every day, but today I did, and good for me! · I like how the authors counts all the things –the blood of Jesus covers a lot-and lists the verses so I can find it. · Thank you so much for this Word. We love understanding God’s Word! · Amen. Sometimes it’s our choices that get us in trouble. We say, “God did this to me!” No, God is love and mercy no matter what. His anointing is always with us. He is a loving Father. · God makes a way of escape. We just need to stay close to Him! · I want to take this opportunity to thank you again, Rita, for the daily devotionals you faithfully send to me via WhatsApp in the mornings. It is always a blessing - and I am sure I am not the only one who feels that way. · Thank you so much for all the messages. It means a lot to me. I usually read them in the morning. · This text was spot on for me! · You have no idea what these word mean to me. Thank you, have a blessed day! · Thank you for not letting me go. I can see your faith is true and honest. · Good morning. I just wanted to say thank you for praying for me to get a job. I started last week! The above  are just a few of the many reactions we receive as feed-back from our Whats-App messages. Since arriving in Denmark we have had approximately 20 more people sign up — although not all from here. But our devotionals are reaching people all over the world in places such as the States, South Africa, Uganda, Denmark, Iceland, Greenland, France, Holland, etc.. If you are reading this newsletter you are most likely partnering with our ministry and therefore and instrumental part in making it possible for us to reach out to so many different people of different nationalities, backgrounds, walks of life, etc. Thank you for the important part you play. Please pray for the Lord to add more people for us to minister to! Thank you! TESTIMONIES: Philip has been praying for several people in the church. One who suffered from back pain experienced that the pain left, someone who was married and desired to have a baby was prayed for and one moth later she testified that she was pregnant. Someone else’s leg grew out. — We praise the Lord for all that He is doing! IN SOUTH AFRICA: The contacts we established for food for fresh produce for the soup kitchens, milk, Weet-Bix, coffee — (the coffee is for various missionary centers) are still helping. We have friends in South Africa who continue to collect and distribute it! Our labors were not in vain! Praise the Lord. We send much love and appreciation for your participation,      Philip and Rita     Please remember our new details are as follows: PayPal: force4good.fvs@gmail.com NordFyn's Bank Rita Olsen Reg. #: 6869 Account #: 0001058710 BIC/SWIFT Code: NSBKDK21 IBAN DK2168690001058710 PS: If you are in the European union you can transfer funds via SEPA with very minimum or no fees. For another easy and simple way to transfer money internationally please visit: https://wise.com/

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