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
@faith20 I appreciate your prayers! What's going on in our world feels like a bad dream, that I hope to wake up from... Yesterday I shared a post with my Facebook friends (it was in Finnish) of a medical doctor. She had signed a petition to the public health authorities and government about not giving the vaccine to children. It was initiated and written by several Finnish researchers, professors, MDs and others. She was fired from her job only for signing that!! How are you and your wife doing now as you have lost your jobs?
Tanja
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@tanjaostman Last summer in Italy they introduced the pass as now in Finland. Then in September for those who work in schools and from 15 October for all workers. I hope that in Finland they do not do as in Italy. I pray that everything can go back to normal, in the name of Jesus.
@sinbach so great! These people are serious. Yesterday I met an Iranian man (in our house church meeting in Sweden) who has been 40 yrs in Sweden. The only person he is in contact with in Iran is his Muslim mother, with whom he's got a tense relationship. He wanted us to pray for both her and him. His eyes teared up when I wanted to talk about Iran with him and what I have heard. For instance that these people are ready to die for Christ. He said that he's been into lukewarm Christian religion in Sweden which has led him away from the Lord, but lately he's wanted to take his faith more seriously.
Tanja
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@sinbach wow! I suppose these people are both dedicated and open to the Lord. Are you somewhere in the Middle East? We just came back (to our hosts) from a house church meeting in Luleå, Sweden. It was only 2,5 hours and not underground. 😀
"A report by the Swedish national council for crime prevention said earlier this year that Sweden is the only European country where fatal shootings have risen significantly since 2000, primarily because of the violent activities of organized gangs."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/award-winning-teenage-rapper-shot-to-death-in-sweden/2021/10/22/ce324f9e-331d-11ec-8036-7db255bff176_story.html
@bethany I understand that! We don’t have snow at home right now, but it will come. Some winters we get more than enough... I wish we could share it with you! You should come and visit Finland in the winter!
Visiting Sweden on our son's autumn break. It looks more like a winter break. 😀
The first time we experience snow this season! Driving from Umeå to Piteå and Luleå in northern Sweden to visit friends. We went with a brand new ferry from Vasa (Finland) to Umeå in 3,5 hours. It's the world's most northern year round passenger ferry. It's dependent on icebreaker ships that break the ice before. This ferry is even the most environmentally friendly vessel in the world, because it's LNG-fuelled.
Thank you Sweden 🇸🇪 for not requiring any covid certificates at the border! And in addition we can pause the use of masks.
https://www.ship-technology.com/news/wasaline-aurora-botnia/
@sinbach 😂 OK, so you are like the guy filming, calling out phonies, and Minna trying to cool you down?
Tanja
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"While I was wallowing in self-pity, there was a whole world with literally billions of people who had no idea who God is, how amazing He is, and the wonders He has done for us. They are the ones who are really suffering. They don't know the message of the gospel.
But now I knew what it meant to follow God. Now I had found Jesus.
And all suffering is worth it to follow Jesus. He is that amazing."
This has easily become one of my favourite books I've read this year. Highly recommend for those who haven't read it.
Tanja
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The world's ways of responding to injustice are futile, doomed to failure. Politicians lie and ignore us, but our Heavenly Father hears our prayers and answers them in His perfect timing.
@tymektt Google translation: "Fufusia Stories: Courage to be obedient". Right?
@bethany yes, still! But November in Finland is not nice, unless we get snow. No leaves left, very dark and often rainy. Still enjoying October... 😊
"I used to wear nice clothes to cocktail parties. Now I just wear the truth" DC Draino. Respect!
Living as an entertainment lawyer in California, “If you believed anything to the right of communism, you got shunned,” he said. “After 2016, if you vocally supported the GOP, President Trump, or even just conservative ideas, you lost friends, you lost job opportunities, you got unfollowed on social media.”... "He started an Instagram account under the pseudonym “DC Draino,” although his name and identity are publicly associated with the account now. “Drain the DC swamp!” he says, assuring me he’s “very anti-corruption.”
O’Handley gained followers by the thousands and the tens of thousands right away. Something about his persona struck a nerve."
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
