Swedens cities are some of the loneliest places in the world to live in. The Swedish ideal if the individual has played a huge part in this reality. What have our experiences been? And how does the gospel challenge individualism?
How Swedish have I become for Christ?
Paul became like those around him so by all means he may save some (1Cor 9). In this video I take the Netflix “How Nordic are you quiz” to find out just how like a Swede I have become for the sake of the gospel. You can take the quiz yourself here: https://www.quotev.com/quiz/13077458/How-Nordic-are-You
Sovereign slowing
“All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:16b For Valentine’s day, I finally managed to get our wedding album printed. It only took 16 years! Emelie and I first started dreaming about ministry in Sweden before we got married. After we got married…
What a day for Mission Sweden!
On Sunday the 6th of October our home church (Chessington Evangelical Church) ran a special pledge Sunday for its church members. This was in place of their annual harvest offering. It was an emotional day, with much love from the church being manifest in future support through financial giving and prayer. Below are two videos…
Why plant churches in Sweden?
Simply put, we need to plant gospel churches in Sweden because it has the fastest declining evangelical church in the world! (-0.6% per year) From the 1800s up until the 1970’s Swedish Evangelical churches sent out more missionaries across the globe than any other country per capita! In the last generation, however, the idols of…
The first three years
We plan to move to Gothenburg early in 2020. In our first year, we will be focused on supporting Allékyrkan where Ben will serve under the Elders of the church. We will seek to help each member grow in faith, confidence in the Bible and personal evangelism. Ben will be supporting a new ministry called…
