Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas! A beautiful day after several gray days. Our winters don't look like this every day. Next wind will blow the snow off the trees. We have daylight for 4-5 hours a day this time of the year, so I had to sneak out at lunchtime as I worked from home today.
We're getting snow at last. Looks like a black and white picture, but it's not. It's just the weather and the landscape.
Climate communism in both Europe and America. This is tyranny. https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cl2AqBTNK3h/?igshid=MDJmNzVkMjY=
We celebrate Independence day in Finland, today, Dec 6th. Finland got independence from Russia in 1917, after a century under their rule. Sweden had to give away their eastern part, namely Finland, in 1809, because they lost a war against Russia. Sweden was formed as a nation state in the 12th century, and Finland (that wasn't a nation and had very few inhabitants) was incorporated. So we were not oppressed by Sweden, but we were Sweden. Almost 700 years of being a part of Sweden, explains why people like me still speak Swedish in Finland. Unfortunately we have endured several wars during the 20th century. The pictures are from WW2.
My dilemma as well... But American accent is the easiest for me to pronounce.
Have a blessed 2nd Sunday of Advent! We have had below freezing point for weeks already, but very little snow. It's -5°C and this is the lightest it gets by noon, as the sun barely rises above the horizon and we have darkness for 20 hours a day. It's the opposite around midsummer.
We went to an old day Christmas market in a neighboring village, where they have an open-air museum. As you can see we don't have much snow yet.
For appr. 15 years I’ve been longing for a more NT way of doing church, and was excited when I discovered books about it. But where I live most Christians are more concerned about traditions and to be faithful to their relatives (who often belong to the same church), than abut seeking the truth. Yesterday I was asked for the first time in all these years if I want to teach on the topic of Organic Church/House Church, and it made my happy! It was in a home group we joined a year ago, with other unvaxxed – not because we felt superior, but because we were excluded from the rest of society. They even implemented covid passports for a while.
I share some PPT slides with English quotes, and books that I recommend on this topic (there are many more books, but I own these). I included BTJ books by @sinbach in the list – not that they explicitly teach about house church, but they show examples of people who gather in underground house churches, even if they might not know that it's Biblical.
I have heard no apologies, from anybody (social media friends, relatives, authorities, companies, politicians etc) in Finland yet. Are they too proud, or do they still believe the official narrative? 🤔
Swedish-speaking Finn from Finland. Wife, mother of one boy (2008). Teaching special education at the local university. I belive that the Organic Church/House Church is the NT way of doing Church. I'm interested in what's going on in the underground Church and I pray for the persecuted Christians.
Joined Jul 2020
