March Forth! Marssige Edasi!

We were asked to judge a "Hollywood Night" held by the young people of the Kopli Corps. They dressed up as different performers, like James Brown and Michael Jackson, and really put on a fun show. This picture shows them all together during the final number. 

Last week was Andrei's 15th birthday. We all had cake and ice cream with him to mark his special day. In the picture are Andrei, Lauri, Evelyn and Elizabeth. 

Here is Andrei with his birthday cake, lovingly made by Evelyn and Lauri.  

SASB #780

1.They bid me choose an easier path,
And seek a lighter cross;
They bid me mingle with Heaven's gold
A little of earth's dross;
They bid me, but in vain, once more
The world's illusions try;
I cannot leave the dear old flag,
'Twere better far to die.

2.They say the fighting is too hard,
My strength of small avail,
When foes beset and friends are fled,
My faith must surely fail.
But, O how can I quit my post
While millions sin-bound lie?
I cannot leave the dear old flag,
'Twere better far to die.

3.They say I can a Christian be,
And serve God quite as well,
And reach Heaven just as surely by
The music of church bell;
But, O the drum and clarion call
Of band make my pulse fly!
I cannot leave the dear old flag,
'Twere better far to die.

4.I answer, life is fleeting fast,
I cannot, cannot wait;
For me my comrades beckoning stand
Beyond the pearly gate;
I hear their hallelujahs grand,
I hear their battle cry:
O do not leave the dear old flag,
'Twere better far to die!

Frederick Booth-Tucker (1853-1929)

"The memory of the righteous will be a blessing...." (Proverbs 10:7)

Mama
Bill & Edna Roach
John Currie & Arnold Bergdahl
Uncle Reggie & Aunt Joann
Jonathan Groff
Grammy Reny & Grampa Groff
Grampa Reny
Aunt Esther
John William Clark & Grandmother
Grampa & Grandma Smith
Grandpa & Grandma Treadwell

Please put lilacs on their graves for me.

Evelyn

Halastuse Misjonäride Ordu
Ristiku tn. 44
Tallinn 10320
tel: 673 36 96

http://www.geocities.com/zicaron6/estonia_ch.doc

excerpted from http://www.balticsworldwide.com/missionaries.htm

The men are mostly alcoholics, the poorest of the poor. Every winter men outside this home freeze to death. Others die of gangrene or infections, sleeping under bridges or in makeshift tents in forests. Many live covered in lice which they contract from pulling out of dumpsters everything that might keep them warm. Most of them reek of alcohol. Some smell of urine or feces. It would almost take a saint to deal with them.

...

“We pray to get strength,” Sister Sanjihba says. Despite the faith and optimism of the sisters, they are still human beings living in the real world. “You need the day in to get strength,” says Sister Sanjibha. “It is not always easy to be patient and kind to the poor.”

...

It seems that much of our time lately has been taken up in pretty boring (not "blog-worthy"), but time-consuming, tasks. An example is needing to renew our visas. When we moved here two years ago, we were given a 2-year visa. Now we are hoping for a 10-year visa.

So we have had to fill out tons of forms and go to offices in Tallinn with Teele, the Regional Commander's secretary. The immigration office said that we need to have an apostille on each of our children's birth certificates; apparently the law has changed since we moved here!

So we had to send them to three different states (NJ, ME, DE) and have them sent back to us via DHL. Expensive!

But then NJ says that Chris's birth certificate was issued by the county, not the state, so they can't do it. So now we have to get family in NJ to go to the offices there personally to obtain a state-issued birth certificate, then bring it to the office that will issue the apostille.

I TOLD YOU it was boring! But anyway, please keep this whole process in prayer.

Other issues are the new corps hall here in Tartu, the new officer's quarters here in Tartu, and packing (and cleaning!) to move into our new quarters in Tallinn.

Evelyn

HAB 1:2 How long, O LORD, must I call for help,
but you do not listen?
Or cry out to you, "Violence!"
but you do not save?
HAB 1:3 Why do you make me look at injustice?
Why do you tolerate wrong?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife, and conflict abounds.
HAB 1:4 Therefore the law is paralyzed,
and justice never prevails.
The wicked hem in the righteous,
so that justice is perverted.
HAB 1:5 "Look at the nations and watch--
and be utterly amazed.
For I am going to do something in your days
that you would not believe,
even if you were told."

MT 4:23 Jesus went throughout Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the good news of the kingdom, and healing every disease and sickness among the people. 24 News about him spread all over Syria, and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed, those having seizures, and the paralyzed, and he healed them. 25 Large crowds from Galilee, the Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and the region across the Jordan followed him.

MT 9:1 Jesus stepped into a boat, crossed over and came to his own town. 2 Some men brought to him a paralytic, lying on a mat. When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, "Take heart, son; your sins are forgiven."
MT 9:3 At this, some of the teachers of the law said to themselves, "This fellow is blaspheming!"
MT 9:4 Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said, "Why do you entertain evil thoughts in your hearts? 5 Which is easier: to say, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Get up and walk'? 6 But so that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. . . ." Then he said to the paralytic, "Get up, take your mat and go home." 7 And the man got up and went home. 8 When the crowd saw this, they were filled with awe; and they praised God, who had given such authority to men.

LK 5:17 One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick. 18 Some men came carrying a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus.
LK 5:20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven."
LK 5:21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?"
LK 5:22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? 23 Which is easier: to say, `Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, `Get up and walk'? 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins. . . ." He said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home." 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, "We have seen remarkable things today."

AC 8:4 Those who had been scattered preached the word wherever they went. 5 Philip went down to a city in Samaria and proclaimed the Christ there. 6 When the crowds heard Philip and saw the miraculous signs he did, they all paid close attention to what he said. 7 With shrieks, evil spirits came out of many, and many paralytics and cripples were healed. 8 So there was great joy in that city.

AC 9:32 As Peter traveled about the country, he went to visit the saints in Lydda. 33 There he found a man named Aeneas, a paralytic who had been bedridden for eight years. 34 "Aeneas," Peter said to him, "Jesus Christ heals you. Get up and take care of your mat." Immediately Aeneas got up. 35 All those who lived in Lydda and Sharon saw him and turned to the Lord.

from http://old-wells.blogspot.com/

I was in the middle of a rant to God about officers who had left the work, for what in my opinion were not good enough reasons. He listened until I had finished and then said, very clearly, "And where were you? When this officer's marriage was in trouble where were you? Were you praying for them? When that officer couldn't take any more isolation and the hardness of his people, where were you? When another fell into error or sin, where were you? Were you sitting in judgment or on your knees praying?"

The episode humbled me and shocked me into action. I knew that from then on Alan and I had a commission from God to pray regularly and in particular for our session. We have managed to trace most of them and pray for them as often as we can. This is not because we are particularly noble but simply becasue the Holy Spirit just doesn't let us off the hook with this and we have found that the blessing has far outweighed the committment. So often the people we sought to support have ministered to us and helped to keep us on the right track.

I've rambled on but I suppose I'm just hoping that maybe others might take up the challenge to pray.

Today is Andrei's birthday!

Please pray for Faye, mother of Major Diane Johnson from USA South serving in Moldova.

Faye fell and broke her pelvic bone at the nursing home where she lives. She also has a UTI. She's in the Baptist Hospital in Little Rock.

Thanks, my friends.

http://www.brightonvineyard.com/vineyard/jwimb.shtml

Shortly after John Wimber became a Christian, he became a voracious Bible reader. The Scriptures excited him. Finally, after weeks of reading about life-transforming miracles in the Bible and attending boring church services, John asked one of the lay leaders, “When do we get to do the stuff?”
“What stuff?” asked the leader. “You know, the stuff here in the Bible,” said John. “You know, like stuff Jesus did--raising people from the dead, healing the blind and the paralyzed. You know, that stuff.”
“Well, we don’t do that anymore,” the man said.
“You don’t? Well what do you do?” asked John.
“What we did this morning,” replied the man.
In frustration, John responded: “For that I gave up drugs?”

http://www.charismanow.com/
"Fire in My Bones" by Charisma magazine's editor, J. Lee Grady
"What I Learned from a Woman of Faith"

from the end of the piece:

...
What about you? It’s likely that God gave you some special promises many years ago. You may have put some of them on a shelf, or perhaps you even laughed them away—thinking to yourself, “That could never happen to me.” Or perhaps you gave God a list of excuses: “I’m too old. I’ve missed my chance. I’m not qualified. I’ve made too many mistakes.” The devil loves to play those messages over and over in your ears. You must fight back by pushing the eject button.
...
It’s not too late to claim your promise. Tune out the shame and condemnation. Quit rationalizing. Don’t laugh at the impossibilities. Stop looking at the darkness of your circumstances and instead gaze on the bright promises of His Word. He is eager to turn your barrenness into joyful shouting.

William Booth said, "The promises of God are sure, if you only believe."

NU 23:19 God is not a man, that he should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?

Psalm 77
For the director of music. For Jeduthun. Of Asaph. A psalm.
PS 77:1 I cried out to God for help; I cried out to God to hear me.
PS 77:2 When I was in distress, I sought the Lord; at night I stretched out untiring hands and my soul refused to be comforted.
PS 77:3 I remembered you, O God, and I groaned; I mused, and my spirit grew faint. Selah
PS 77:4 You kept my eyes from closing; I was too troubled to speak.
PS 77:5 I thought about the former days, the years of long ago;
PS 77:6 I remembered my songs in the night. My heart mused and my spirit inquired:
PS 77:7 "Will the Lord reject forever? Will he never show his favor again?
PS 77:8 Has his unfailing love vanished forever? Has his promise failed for all time?
PS 77:9 Has God forgotten to be merciful? Has he in anger withheld his compassion?" Selah
PS 77:10 Then I thought, "To this I will appeal: the years of the right hand of the Most High." PS 77:11 I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your miracles of long ago.
PS 77:12 I will meditate on all your works and consider all your mighty deeds.
PS 77:13 Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God?
PS 77:14 You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples.

PS 119:41 May your unfailing love come to me, O LORD, your salvation according to your promise;

PS 119:49 Remember your word to your servant, for you have given me hope.
PS 119:50 My comfort in my suffering is this: Your promise preserves my life.

PS 119:76 May your unfailing love be my comfort, according to your promise to your servant. PS 119:77 Let your compassion come to me that I may live, for your law is my delight.

PS 119:81 My soul faints with longing for your salvation, but I have put my hope in your word.
PS 119:82 My eyes fail, looking for your promise; I say, "When will you comfort me?"

PS 119:116 Sustain me according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed.
PS 119:117 Uphold me, and I will be delivered; I will always have regard for your decrees.

PS 119:123 My eyes fail, looking for your salvation, looking for your righteous promise.
PS 119:124 Deal with your servant according to your love and teach me your decrees.
PS 119:125 I am your servant; give me discernment that I may understand your statutes.

PS 119:153 Look upon my suffering and deliver me, for I have not forgotten your law.
PS 119:154 Defend my cause and redeem me; preserve my life according to your promise.

PS 119:169 May my cry come before you, O LORD; give me understanding according to your word.
PS 119:170 May my supplication come before you; deliver me according to your promise.
PS 119:171 May my lips overflow with praise, for you teach me your decrees.
PS 119:172 May my tongue sing of your word, for all your commands are righteous.
PS 119:173 May your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen your precepts.
PS 119:174 I long for your salvation, O LORD, and your law is my delight.
PS 119:175 Let me live that I may praise you, and may your laws sustain me.
PS 119:176 I have strayed like a lost sheep. Seek your servant, for I have not forgotten your commands.

PS 145:13 Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made.
PS 145:14 The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.

2CO 1:20 For no matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God. 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come.

2CO 6:18 "I will be a Father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters, says the Lord Almighty."
2CO 7:1 Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God.

2PE 1:3 His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 4 Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.

Chris leaves for Canada (via Finland and America) one month from today!

Here is one way that you can pray for him. In preparation for Battle School, I made up the following weekly list. (I told him it's like training to be in the Olympics!) Perhaps it will help guide you in your prayers for him. (THANK YOU for praying!!!)

Sunday
Lead the Fighting
2CO 10:3 For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. 4 The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. 5 We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.

Monday
Fast and Pray
AC 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said….

Tuesday
Read the Bible
2TI 3:14 But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, 15 and how from infancy you have known the holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, 17 so that the man of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.

Wednesday
Witness
AC 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses….

Thursday
Evangelize
2TI 4:1 In the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who will judge the living and the dead, and in view of his appearing and his kingdom, I give you this charge: 2 Preach the Word; be prepared in season and out of season; correct, rebuke and encourage--with great patience and careful instruction. 3 For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. 4 They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. 5 But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.

Friday
Engage Demons
MT 10:7 As you go, preach this message: `The kingdom of heaven is near.' 8 Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse those who have leprosy, drive out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.

Saturday
Listen to God
JN 6:45 It is written in the Prophets: `They will all be taught by God.' Everyone who listens to the Father and learns from him comes to me. 46 No one has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. 47 I tell you the truth, he who believes has everlasting life. 48 I am the bread of life.

Tulemas on ülilahe kontsert!!! Ära jää ilma!!!

Sellel laupäeval kell 19:00 Linnahallis:

Maailmakuulus: Rebecca St James

Hind: 100-200 EEK

Piletid saadaval: Piletilevis ja Linnahalli kassadesinternetis:http://www.piletilevi.ee/index.php?lang=est&id=24,166165&mid=3690

Kuula muusikat: http://www.rsjames.com/music.aspx

Sunday
2:00 p.m.
Sadamateater

I guess this is a 4-week program for ages 5-12, which began last Sunday. Elizabeth went and really enjoyed it.

I just know myself and it would be too scary for me. I didn't even watch the winners of EuroVision (they were dressed as monsters)!

ScreenIt says:
Blood/Gore -- Heavy
Guns/Weapons -- Extreme
Music (Scary/Tense) -- Extreme
Sex/Nudity -- Heavy
Violence -- Extreme

I haven't even seen the new "Star Wars" movie!

I did read the book (The Da Vinci Code) and it was an interesting page-turner. I think that's another reason I wouldn't like the movie; too many changes from the book.

Evelyn

http://www.screenit.com/movies/2006/the_da_vinci_code.html#sn

Finally, ScreenIt has their review for "The Da Vinci Code" up! And seeing the word "heavy" in their little boxes is enough to convince me not to go. Of course, the bazillion reviewers saying that the movie sinks also makes me not want to pay 85 krooni to go see it!

So, it's not a boycott -- or even "othercott" as at least one Christian has called for -- just a decision not to see a movie I know I won't like.

In case you've been waiting breathlessly for my reaction to the movie, this is the most you're going to get. But if you've seen it yourself, please leave a comment and let me know what you thought of it!

Evelyn

Friends, I would appreciate your prayers today for me and my family. It would have been my mother's 66th birthday. We want to live in celebration on this Resurrection Day. But our hearts are tinged with sadness in missing her.

Thanks,
Evelyn

JN 11:25 Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; 26 and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"
JN 11:27 "Yes, Lord," she told him, "I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God, who was to come into the world."

You can see the list of USA East moves here.

Having just read Counterfeit Revival by Hank Hanegraaff and then Catch the Fire by Guy Chevreau, this made me smile.

from the Lee Strobel newsletter:
"Okay, please indulge me: I’ve got to tell you the latest anecdote about my granddaughter, Abby, who’s now about four months old. Her father had to take her out of the church service the family was attending on May 7 – not because she was crying, but because she was laughing so much! (And the church wasn’t even in Toronto!)"

I'll try to keep shut about "happy baby noises" as we call them in La Leche League!

GE 17:17 Abraham fell facedown; he laughed

GE 21:6 Sarah said, "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me."

JOB 8:21 He will yet fill your mouth with laughter
and your lips with shouts of joy.

PS 126:2 Our mouths were filled with laughter,
our tongues with songs of joy.
Then it was said among the nations,
"The LORD has done great things for them."

LK 6:21 Blessed are you who hunger now,
for you will be satisfied.
Blessed are you who weep now,
for you will laugh.

:-)
Evelyn

http://haverford.k12.pa.us/hms/web_page/estonia.htm

I've only glanced at this web site because I just found out about it, but the pictures are great! Interesting to see everything here through new eyes.

http://futurefireblog.blogspot.com/2006/05/sanctified-anger-we-need-officers.html#links

http://www.vanemuine.ee/sadamateater/index.php?name=kava&id=390
FOX TSIRKUSE JUUBELIETENDUS!
muu
Tsirkus Fox juubelietendus 2 osas (kell 11.00 ja kell 18.00) Tartu Sadamateatris. Kogupere üritus, hea meelelahutus! Premeeri oma lemmikuid! Tsirkus Foxil täitus sel aastal 5 tegevusaasta. Selle tähistamiseks on kavas 2 osaline etendus Sadamateatris: I osa- etendus "Läbi aegade", II osa- etendus "Valguses ja varjus"! Vaheajal meened ja tegevust huvilistele.
M Ä N G U P L A A N Mai 200616.05 kl 11:0016.05 kl 18:00

http://www.tsirkusfox.ee/fox_est/index.html
OOTAME ETENDUSTELE!
5 AASTANE TARTU FOX TSIRKUS!
16. MAI 2006 JUUBELIETENDUSED SADAMATEATRIS KOOS SÕPRADEGA! OLETE OODATUD!

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/12744400/

I realized that I never posted the pictures from the cadets visit to the holdekodu (nursing home). It is situated in Erastvere, a little village far from anywhere. There were more than 50 residents at the program, and they clapped and sang along. We were all treated like royalty by the staff, and even had tea with the director (who can speak Finnish), who told us in great detail about the home and all that they do. He also showed us around the grounds, including the beautiful chapel that overlooks the nearby pond. It was truly a rewarding day. 

The cadets prepare to sing a song for the residents. Also shown is our friend and translator for the day Liis. 

Cadet Esa Nenonen speaks with one of the residents after the program. Because the nursing home is so out of the way, they have few visitors, so they were truly grateful for the time and effort shown by the cadets to come there. 

One of the benefits of the nursing home being way out in the country is that they have a picture-perfect view of the pond and countryside. 

This was extremely funny to me, but I realize that it is not quite so hilarious if you are not familiar with these authors.

But to me it's a great joke!

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2004/124/33.0.html

Evelyn

excerpted from http://www.armybarmy.com/blog.html

on our church envy:We're trying to save sinners. Sinners have voted with their feet that they don't like church. I think the current stat is 74% of Americans don't go. If we're trying to reach the people who don't like church, why on earth would we identify with church? If they don't like ... 'pastors' why on earth would you call yourself one (especially since you aren't one)? What you consider a difficulty is an excellent opportunity to define ourselves accurately- heroically and romantically - and in so doing attract some of the 74% in USA who don't like church and pastors. It seems like people are interested in revolutionary causes

Man, he (almost!) always says what I'm thinking, but WAY better than I could ever say it! That's what friends are for, eh? ;-) Let the churches fight for the 26% and we've got the 74% all to ourselves! :-)

Evelyn

1CO 3:5 What, after all, is Apollos? And what is Paul? Only servants, through whom you came to believe--as the Lord has assigned to each his task. 6 I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God made it grow. 7 So neither he who plants nor he who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. 8 The man who plants and the man who waters have one purpose, and each will be rewarded according to his own labor. 9 For we are God's fellow workers; you are God's field, God's building.
1CO 3:10 By the grace God has given me, I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds. 11 For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ. 12 If any man builds on this foundation using gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay or straw, 13 his work will be shown for what it is, because the Day will bring it to light. It will be revealed with fire, and the fire will test the quality of each man's work. 14 If what he has built survives, he will receive his reward. 15 If it is burned up, he will suffer loss; he himself will be saved, but only as one escaping through the flames.
1CO 3:16 Don't you know that you yourselves are God's temple and that God's Spirit lives in you? 17 If anyone destroys God's temple, God will destroy him; for God's temple is sacred, and you are that temple.
1CO 3:18 Do not deceive yourselves. If any one of you thinks he is wise by the standards of this age, he should become a "fool" so that he may become wise. 19 For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God's sight. As it is written: "He catches the wise in their craftiness" ; 20 and again, "The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile." 21 So then, no more boasting about men! All things are yours, 22 whether Paul or Apollos or Cephas or the world or life or death or the present or the future--all are yours, 23 and you are of Christ, and Christ is of God.

There was an argument between some kids who came to our youth program tonight, and I handled it badly. Both kids ended up storming off.

Peace, reconciliation, love, respect ... longed for but not seen tonight.

Not even in me.

Please pray for Etthel and Jaanika and everyone else. Especially me!

1TI 5:1 Do not rebuke an older man harshly, but exhort him as if he were your father. Treat younger men as brothers, 2 older women as mothers, and younger women as sisters, with absolute purity.

Evelyn

Oled väga oodatud selle hooaja viimasele Going Up-ile, mis kannab ekstreemset pealkirja VABALANGEMINE. 12.mai kell 19:00 Tartu Vanemuise kontserisaalis astub laval üles laulja Dave Lubben, kellele pakub konkurentsi Going UP-i meeskond oma läbi aegade säravaimate etteastete ning tegelastega. Sina otsustad, kes on parem!!! Kuid see pole veel kõik! Laval astub üles USA-st pärit mees, kes kannab nime Jose Zayas. Kuidas elada elu, mis oleks põnev nagu üks suur seiklus? Seda saad teada tema käest. Tule ise, võta sõber kaasa... ja sõbra sõber. Üritus on tasuta. Kohtumiseni, Going Up-i meeskond www.goingup.ee

You are very invited to the last Going Up.
12 May
7:00 p.m.
Vanemuise
:-)

excerpted from Chris's blog (chrischronicles.blogspot.com):

This summer I am going beyond Tallinn...beyond Estonia...beyond Finland...beyond even America...this summer I am going to a place where no man has gone before, the wild country of...Canada!!! Vancouver to be exact. I'm going to take over Canada, using a suitcase and a backpack. Sound exciting?I bet it does but that's not really what I'm doing. I'm doing something a million trillion ga-billion times cooler, Salvation Army Battle School!! No, I won't be shooting guns. No, I won't really be taking over Canada. I will be getting hands-on training in Salvationism. Isn't that cool? Check out http://www.armybarmy.com/pdf/BattleSchool%20brief.pdf to read for yourself. This is gonna be awesome!!

On June 23rd I will fly out of Helsinki and start a trip that will take me from Helsinki, Finland, to London, England, and then straight to Boston, USA.

Then I'll spend a week in America with family (hey family, who wants me? e-mail me and let me know!!). And then July 1st I will fly out of Boston and get my butt to Chicago where I will switch planes to go to...(drumroll please)...VANCOUVER!!! And then I will spend some time with my family in Canada (whom I've never met but hey, anything to add to the adventure right?) and then on the 4th of July, I will be in Canada starting...BATTLE SCHOOL!!! Awesome, huh? So anyway now you know what I'm doing this summer.

http://www.sojo.net/index.cfm?action=sojomail.display&issue=060509#2

If you haven't looked at any of the other links about The Da Vinci Code, then at least check this one out. It's that good.

Evelyn

1KI 18:22 Then Elijah said to them, "I am the only one of the LORD's prophets left, but Baal has four hundred and fifty prophets. 23 Get two bulls for us. Let them choose one for themselves, and let them cut it into pieces and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. I will prepare the other bull and put it on the wood but not set fire to it. 24 Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of the LORD. The god who answers by fire--he is God."
Then all the people said, "What you say is good."
1KI 18:25 Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, "Choose one of the bulls and prepare it first, since there are so many of you. Call on the name of your god, but do not light the fire." 26 So they took the bull given them and prepared it.
Then they called on the name of Baal from morning till noon. "O Baal, answer us!" they shouted. But there was no response; no one answered. And they danced around the altar they had
made.
1KI 18:27 At noon Elijah began to taunt them. "Shout louder!" he said. "Surely he is a god! Perhaps he is deep in thought, or busy, or traveling. Maybe he is sleeping and must be awakened." 28 So they shouted louder and slashed themselves with swords and spears, as was their custom, until their blood flowed. 29 Midday passed, and they continued their frantic prophesying until the time for the evening sacrifice. But there was no response, no one answered, no one paid attention.
1KI 18:30 Then Elijah said to all the people, "Come here to me." They came to him, and he repaired the altar of the LORD, which was in ruins. 31 Elijah took twelve stones, one for each of the tribes descended from Jacob, to whom the word of the LORD had come, saying, "Your name shall be Israel." 32 With the stones he built an altar in the name of the LORD, and he dug a trench around it large enough to hold two seahs of seed. 33 He arranged the wood, cut the bull into pieces and laid it on the wood. Then he said to them, "Fill four large jars with water and pour it on the offering and on the wood."
1KI 18:34 "Do it again," he said, and they did it again.
"Do it a third time," he ordered, and they did it the third time. 35 The water ran down around the altar and even filled the trench.
1KI 18:36 At the time of sacrifice, the prophet Elijah stepped forward and prayed: "O LORD, God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, let it be known today that you are God in Israel and that I am your servant and have done all these things at your command. 37 Answer me, O LORD, answer me, so these people will know that you, O LORD, are God, and that you are turning their hearts back again."
1KI 18:38 Then the fire of the LORD fell and burned up the sacrifice, the wood, the stones and the soil, and also licked up the water in the trench.
1KI 18:39 When all the people saw this, they fell prostrate and cried, "The LORD--he is God! The LORD--he is God!"

http://www.jesusdecoded.com/questionbox1.php

http://www.jesusfilm.org/davinci/davinci_guide.pdf

http://www.coasthillschurch.org/content/broadcast/index.htm

I tried doing the online quizzes at Dan Brown's site today but didn't get terribly far!

Evelyn

I would just like to ask you to bring before the Father's throne our friend Liis. She is a 14-year-old girl who speaks excellent English and recently translated for us at a nursing home when the Finnish cadets were here.

God has protected her, and we are grateful. She has learned some important lessons the hard way.

And if you would pray for her, I would be most appreciative!

Thanks!

Evelyn

Congratulations Phil Laeger!Phil Laeger, who wrote the winning song "America" for the National Day of Prayer Song Search, recently met Rebecca St James, this year's vocalist for the theme song. St James will also act as spokesperson for this year's National Day of Prayer, held May 4. Plans include release of the "America" theme song to Christian radio and downloads through EMI/Sparrow.
"AMERICA" listen to clip"America" is available for download beginning MARCH 28 from the following sites:iTunes / Sony / Connect / Napster / Rhapsody / Walmart.com
Composer and winner of the 2006 National Day of Prayer Song Search: Phil Laeger
Vocals by Rebecca St. James
Produced by Tedd T.

This land is built on freedom
Life and liberty for all
We've declared our independence
So we will depend on the One who made it all

(chorus)
Honor God, America
The land of the free
Honor God, America
O land of liberty
Honor God

So let justice flow like water
And let mercy fall like rain
Those who honor Him, He'll honor
Together let's raise up the One who has made us

(chorus)
Honor God, America
The land of the free
Honor God, America
O land of liberty
Honor God

(bridge)
From the mountains to the prairies
From the desert to the cities
From the heartland to the coastland
Let our hearts turn to the Lord's hand
From the mountains to the prairies
From the desert to the cities
From the heartland to the coastland
Let our hearts turn to the Lord

(chorus)
Honor God, America
The land of the free
Honor God, America
O land of liberty
Honor God

(repeat bridge)

Elizabeth is going to this concert!
Rebecca St. James
Concert details
Date: 5/27/2006
Time: 7:00 PM
Venue:
2006 Europe tour
Tallinn, Estonia, EE
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"We can't wait until you have a ... degree or years of employment before you are prepared to lead the fighting on your front.... You need to get trained up now."

http://www.armybarmy.com/pdf/BattleSchool%20brief.pdf

If you're praying for him, I'm sure he'd appreciate hearing from you: chrisjohnclark@juno.com

Thanks!

Evelyn

The following is excerpted from:
Mission Impossible: Your Commitment to Christ (Urbana 81)
message from Urbana 81
by Billy Graham
More from Urbana 81.
About Billy Graham (as of 1981).
There are a thousand things you can do with your life, a thousand things for which you can spend it. But how many of them will enable you to say at the end of your life, "No reserve, no retreat, no regrets"?
I well remember 1939 when Hitler invaded Poland, going after the city of Gdansk, which was then called Danzig. Hitler wanted a corridor to the sea, and his action marked the beginning of World War 2.
Poland sits astride Europe and has been the battlefield in many of the great wars that have raged across Europe. And many of those wars have started because of Poland.
One year ago I was in Poland, lecturing and speaking at the University of Warsaw. They were kind enough to give me an honorary doctor's degree. I talked to the foreign minister and many other people whose names are in the news right now, including the late Cardinal Wyszynski. I went to Rome and saw the Pope. We talked about Poland and other events in the world, and I could see his concern over world peace. My own conviction was strengthened that Christians cannot be silent and allow the world to approach the point of the genocide of the human race without at least speaking and praying for peace.
That has not always been my position, but it is my position now because a new factor has dawned upon my thinking - the terrible technology that science has created that can destroy the human race. Of course, we know from the Bible that ultimately God will intervene, and the Prince of peace will come back, and the kingdoms of this world will be his. But till then, whatever hour that may be, thousand years from now or a hundred years from now or tomorrow - we ought to be about the business of witnessing to the whole world of the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
"But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth" (Acts 1:8). Jesus gave the apostles an impossible task, a mission impossible. It was geographically impossible because a great part of the world had not been discovered at that time; physically impossible because they had no airplanes or radios or television or printed pages, and they had no way to get about except by donkey or camel.
Numerically, there were too few of them: one hundred twenty at most at Pentecost. Financially, Josephus says the wealth of the church at that time was equal to about 50,000 American dollars. Legally, in most parts of the known world it was against the law to talk about Jesus Christ. Logistically, Jesus Christ had told them to go to Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria all at once. They couldn't do it. By every rule of the book, it was impossible to do what they were told to do except for one thing - the power of God that came in the Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost.
People were there on that day from every part of the world, and they heard the gospel and carried it back to the then known world. And I pray that God will do it again....
Though we are different geographically, denominationally, racially, all those who know Christ as Savior are members of one body. The apostle Paul said, "The body is one and has many members" (1 Cor 12:12 RSV). It is to this "one body" that the Lord Jesus Christ committed his work. Christian service is not limited to a certain group within the church. We all have one or more gifts that the Holy Spirit has given, and it is the privilege and duty of each member to serve him.
Proclamation and Service
Throughout the world today there is a lot of discussion within the Christian church about the mission of the church. And it is our purpose to consider missions and the mission of the church. I believe that mission can be summed up in two words: proclamation and service. These represent the essence of the Christian mission at home and abroad, and they are inseparably linked together as the key both to evangelism and to penetrating culture with the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ....
If we are ever going to do the job of getting the gospel to all the world, we are going to have to break out of our false distinction between the sacred and the secular. We as citizens of Christ's kingdom are living in occupied territory - as sheep among wolves. It is terribly dangerous, but what a challenge! It is even exciting! I would not want to live in any other period of history if I had a choice. We are in this world with a mission - the mission of proclaiming the good news of Jesus Christ and serving a needy world. If we try to separate proclamation from service we are doomed to failure. Jesus never separated the two and we dare not either. Jesus said, "I am among you as one who serves" (Lk 22:26-27 RSV).
A friend of mine who is writing a book on coping with culture asked a youth worker whether he thought a young person today could be a committed Christian and still be an accepted, respected member of his or her school scene. And the youth worker replied that he could think of only one person he knew who was successfully doing that - a young lady who had made it her aim not to be popular at the university, not to be accepted, but just to serve others. In her school she had assumed the role of a servant and gone about doing the jobs that no one else would do. She was willing to work hard and let someone else have the credit, to do things behind the scenes in order to make others look good. Later she became very open in her proclamation of her Christian faith, and people listened and respected her for it. She had won the right to be heard through her service.
The Scriptures teach, "Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant" (Phil 2:5-7 RSV). As members of the body of Christ, we are called to the same radical commitment exemplified by our Lord. Put bluntly, it is a "self-emptying" ministry. He said we are to deny ourselves and take up a cross....
I believe that God wants many of you to go overseas in the future as his ambassadors around the world. I am also convinced that he wants all of us to live lives of total commitment and service to him right now where we are. Christ has loved us totally. He demonstrated this by his death on the cross and the shedding of his blood, and only total commitment to him and to his command to go into all the world is a reasonable response to that kind of love.
But first you must face the question of your own personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Many of you could not stand up and say, "I know my sins are forgiven. I know that I have received Christ as my Savior. I know that I am going to heaven if I should die. I know that I have eternal life." You couldn't say that because you are not sure....
Worship and Vocation
As you consider your role in world mission and how God is leading you to express your proclamation and service for him, I would like to focus on several aspects. First, worship.
Worship is not a passive activity, but an active one. It's not something we watch, but something we do. Worship, both corporate and private, is necessary to sustain us in the midst of the sometimes hostile culture in which we live now or will be called to penetrate in the future for Christ. The apostle says in Philippians 2 that we should be "blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation" (v. 15)....
We often lament the fact that certain countries are closed to Christian activity. But there are opportunities and possibilities we have never even imagined. I heard about a young man and his wife who are right now living in a country that is closed to Christian missionaries. They are there at the invitation of the government to teach the young people of that country to play a certain sport. When they applied for their visa, they openly told the government that they were Christians and that they often spoke of their faith. The government told them, "We don't care what you talk about in private on your own time as long as you teach our young people to play your sport." There is another couple that we got a Christmas card from in code. They cannot talk openly about Christ, but they can bear the fruit of the Spirit. People often come and inquire what makes the difference. Thus, because of their dedicated service, they are able to give a quiet proclamation.
In Galatians 5 the apostle Paul lists the fruit of the spirit - "love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control." Then he goes on to say, "against such there is no law" (vv. 22-23 RSV). There is no law in the world that can keep you from loving somebody. There is no law that can keep us from having the joy that is produced by the Holy Spirit within us. In some countries you may not be able to use the public gifts like preaching or teaching, but you can bear the fruit of the Spirit. And when people see you are different, they will ask your secret. This is what brought Solzbenitsyn to Christ in a concentration camp in Siberia. There were three men from Estonia in the camp. They never talked about God, they just lived it. They were the hardest workers; they went out of the way to befriend everybody. One day when Solzbenitsyn was ready to commit suicide, one of them came up and drew the picture of a cross and walked away. Solzhenitsyn said, "I realized for the first time that that was the only place where real freedom was to be found." These men were the freest people in the world, even though they were in a concentration camp. When you know Christ, you can be free anywhere.
Is Jesus Christ the Lord of your vocation? Are you training so that you can serve him or yourself? Are you willing to let Christ change your motives and be the master of your life's work? If you're willing to go anywhere and do anything for him, you will be amazed at the opportunities he will open up to you. Whatever your vocation, it is part of your ministry of proclamation and service for Christ in the world.
Go
Jesus said to his disciples, "You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you that you should go and bear fruit" (Jn 15:16 RSV). The first word of Jesus' Commission to his disciples was go. "Go therefore and make disciples of all nations. The Bible is filled with God's calling and God's sending. God calls us to his son the Lord Jesus Christ and then he sends us into the world. God does not reveal himself to satisfy our curiosity. He summons us that he may send us. When the thought that God had chosen me for ministry first struck me, I was humbled and astounded. I agonized and said, "No, Lord, no. I'll do anything except be an undertaker or a preacher!" Yet here I was. Having just accepted Christ as my Savior, I had said in a service of dedication, "Lord, I'll be what you want me to be."
And God was saying, "I want you to preach my gospel." "But Lord, I stutter when I talk I can't even stand up and talk in a classroom. How can I ever preach? I'm nothing - I have no education; I have no money; I have nothing." But God said, "I want you; I have chosen you." He didn't say it in so many words. I did not hear an audible voice. There was no lightning, no thunder. There was just that quiet working of the Holy Spirit, and one night on the eighteenth green of a golf course near Tampa, Florida, I knelt down and said, "Lord, I'm yours." And I began to realize the consequence of that - my whole life changed. Even the person I was to marry changed. Everything changed. He took me step by step....
God has chosen; God has commanded. Are you ready to answer? If we do not respond in obedience, we can become castaways, as Paul was afraid of: "But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway" (1 Cor 9:27 KJV). What about you? Have you given God every key to your heart and life? Are there spaces and rooms and closets into which he has not fully come because you have not given up all the keys to your spiritual house?
I am asking you to make an affirmative response to the call of God, a response in which you dedicate your life totally to Christ. God is looking for young men and women who will say to him, "I'll go where you want me to go; I'll be what you want me to be, at home or abroad. I'll put my life under the lordship of Christ and recognize that I am in Christian service, even though I may be working at a secular job. And I am willing to go to the ends of the earth if that is your will, oh Lord." A missionary is anyone, anywhere, who will obey the command to faithfully witness at home or abroad. You may be doing it under the auspices of a mission board or as a private citizen, working and supporting yourself. But God has given you a spiritual gift, and he calls you to put that to work in his service. But first you must be sure that the Lord Jesus Christ lives in your heart.
In 1913 a young man arrived in Cairo, Egypt. He was twenty-five years old, a graduate of Yale University and Princeton Seminary. He was tall, strong, handsome, intelligent, single and very rich. His name was William Borden from Chicago. He had come to Cairo as a missionary. Eventually, he wanted to go to China. Many people had difficulty understanding why a young millionaire wanted to spend his life like that, but those who knew Borden for any length of time understood it. The consuming desire of his life was to share the love of Jesus Christ with people wherever he was, whatever he was doing. He loved people and longed for them to know the God who loved them and died for them and who had changed his life. After only a few months in Cairo, Borden contracted cerebral meningitis and died. In the weeks following his death, the world began discovering some remarkable things about him. He never owned an automobile because, he said simply, "I can't afford one." Yet during his three years at Princeton he gave away hundreds of thousands of dollars to Christian work. Borden's biographer said of him: "No reserve, no retreat, no regrets had any place in Borden's consecration to God." Borden had planned to go to China as a missionary. But God had other plans. And the story of his life and early death became a rallying cry for hundreds who went to the mission field because of Borden of Yale.
There are a thousand things you can do with your life, a thousand things for which you can spend it. But how many of them will enable you to say at the end of your life, "No reserve, no retreat, no regrets"?
Sandy Ford was only twenty-one....
One day Sandy Ford was running the mile and winning. Then he stumbled and fell. He was having a heart attack. He looked back and saw that he was still ahead, and he got back up and went a few more yards and fell again. He saw that he was still ahead, so he crawled across the finish line. Newspapers carried his picture on the front page.
Last month, on November 27th, after an eight-hour operation to fix it, Sandy's heart stopped beating. It never started again. Many people said, "What a tragedy." The newspapers in our state wrote editorials about his life. Thousands who knew him or didn't know him were shocked - but challenged. Sandy's life had not been cut short at twenty-one. It had been completed. I was in New York the Sunday before Sandy's operation. Something said to me, "Go by Duke University and see Sandy." He was at the Duke hospital. I went seven hours out of my way to see him. He was my nephew, the son of Leighton Ford, who married my sister. I went into the hospital room, and we had two wonderful hours together. And Sandy said an interesting thing: "You know, Uncle Billy, I believe that my illness here has something to do with those meetings at the University this next fall. " Little did he know that by death he would be bringing the first message. God had a plan. Sandy had put himself totally and completely in the hands of Christ: "no reserve, no retreat, no regrets."
You do not know how much time you have. But that is not the important thing. The important thing is that from this moment on, you decide to be God's man or God's woman - without reserve, without retreat, without regrets - wherever he sends you. Jesus hung on the cross publicly with hundreds of people watching him and mocking him. He hung there for you, and if you were the only person in the whole world that needed him he would have died for you. That's how much he loves you. He is ready to come into your heart and forgive you, cleanse you, make you a new person and start you on a new road. Will you dedicate yourself to him without reserve, retreat or regrets?

http://www.armybarmy.com/pdf/BattleSchool%20brief.pdf

http://www.thewarcollege.com/admissions-BattleSchool.html

Today Chris filled out his application to go to the Salvation Army Battle School in Vancouver, Canada, this summer (4 July - 11 August).

I would really appreciate prayers for him even now.

I think that this will help scratch an itch he has been feeling for several months.

It's a big sacrifice for us to have him away for so long, especially while we are moving to Tallinn (our Installation Sunday is 2 July, Founder's Day!), and of course financially as well. But we think it is well worth the investment, in every sense of the word!

We are hoping to have him go to America for about a week (24-30 June), and then spend a few days with Tim's mother's family in Vancouver before Battle School actually begins.

It means him missing Jaanipäev here (big summer celebration), as well as several camps at Loksa. But nothing meaningful is ever achieved without some sacrifice, and again, we think it is well worth it!

So, please pray for him, for the other kids who will attend, for the staff, for us, etc.! Thanks!

Evelyn

The 60 most vulnerable states of the 148 countries examined in the second annual "failed states index" of Foreign Policy magazine and the Fund for Peace:
1. Sudan
2. Democratic Republic of Congo
3. Ivory Coast
4. Iraq
5. Zimbabwe
6. Chad
6. (Tie) Somalia
8. Haiti
9. Pakistan
10. Afghanistan
11. Guinea
11. (Tie) Liberia
13. Central African Republic
14. North Korea
15. Burundi
16. Yemen
16. (Tie) Sierra Leone
18. Myanmar
19. Bangladesh
20. Nepal
21. Uganda
22. Nigeria
22. (Tie) Uzbekistan
24. Rwanda
25. Sri Lanka
26. Ethiopia
27. Colombia
28. Kyrgyzstan
29. Malawi
30. Burkina Faso
31. Egypt
32. Indonesia
33. Syria
33. (Tie) Kenya
35. Bosnia-Herzegovina
36. Cameroon
37. Angola
37. Togo
39. Bhutan
39. Laos
41. Mauritania
42. Tajikistan
43. Russia
44. Niger
45. Turkmenistan
46. Guinea-Bissau
47. Cambodia
47. (Tie) Dominican Republic
49. Papua New Guinea
50. Belarus
51. Guatemala
52. Equatorial Guinea
52. (Tie) Iran
54. Eritrea
55. Serbia-Montenegro
56. Bolivia
57. China
57. (Tie) Moldova
59. Nicaragua
60. Georgia

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