I'm still thinking of my summer trip to the US. GOD HAS DONE GREAT THINGS!
It was fabulous, amazing, unusual, interesting, cognitive ... and I can continue this listing.
God gave me great family where I leaved and where I grow spiritually. I like to meet new people, so God gave me to meet a lot of new people who became a good friends of mine. And I could see my friend whom I haven't seen since 2005. Praise God for this.
During my trip I could read great book - The Heart of the Artist in english and in russian. I want to make seminar for musitions based on this book.
I have been on the National Worship Leaders Conference. It was great time when you sing with 3000 worship leaders. I could see famouse worship leaders, listening seminars and making friends.
I had opportunity to help in Fine Art Day Camp. It's amazing to see how children are dancing, singing, acting, drawing. They are fabulous! :) A lot of interesting things I got there.
I heard a lot of new songs during this time.
I could sing in the choir at Sunday Worship service and one time it was a GREAT privilege to lead Downpour at Bent Tree with Kera and Nick. They are great guys. I enjoyed time with them this summer.
I'm glad that I could start to use what I have learned. I try to plan everything earlier. The great thing is that everything is almost ready for Christmas! We had planning meetings during 2 month. And now we all know what to do and how to do. Praise God!
Gerry and his family have influenced a lot on me. He tought me how to relax and that I need to have sabbath, how to decied what to do first and put things in order and by priorites.
Now I'm planning to make seminar, start to teach new songs in church and teach people to worship God.
I hope God have special plan for me. I want to do His will.
четверг, 26 ноября 2009 г.
понедельник, 13 июля 2009 г.
What the Church needs now is...
During this summer at Bent Tree they have serment serious - What the Church needs now is...
1 - a Christian Worldview (some thoughts after this message)
Jesus Christ was dead, buried, now undeniably alive. He spoke about Kingdom of God at his last days.
Gospel the reign of God is at hand and is now breaking into the World.
The Kingdom of God is a present reality, inaugurated at the cross when Jesus broke power of satan.
We don't invite Jesus in our heart but HE invites us. It's not about us but it's about Him!
Good news:
- This world matters! Jesus is making new
- Jesus describing the Kingdom of God in which all that has resulted from sin and the fall is being restored by Him
- The Kingdom message is Christ setting things right again - making everything sad come untrue We are temple of the Holy Spitit. And we are body of Christ.
How church present God's mission in the World?
- Christians demonstrate what life looks like under the reing of God within a distinct communuty - The church serves the world by enacting justice and meeting human needs thought compassion and mercy
2 - Some True Discipleship
disciple is learner (from greek)
The goal of spiritual formation is to be like Jesus, be like a Master
Method of spiritual formation is training
Spiritual formation not about appearances, but character.
Spiritual formation not about trying hard, but training consistentlyDisciples are not born, they are made
You need to training to be a true disciple, not to trying
Diciple - need to be deily discipline
- training every time and be disciple not just at the quit time
- be with body of Christ - with church
Deep message is not teological information or something like this but it's a deep message when it's change your life. Maybe it's just simple things but they will change your life!
1 - a Christian Worldview (some thoughts after this message)
Jesus Christ was dead, buried, now undeniably alive. He spoke about Kingdom of God at his last days.
Gospel the reign of God is at hand and is now breaking into the World.
The Kingdom of God is a present reality, inaugurated at the cross when Jesus broke power of satan.
We don't invite Jesus in our heart but HE invites us. It's not about us but it's about Him!
Good news:
- This world matters! Jesus is making new
- Jesus describing the Kingdom of God in which all that has resulted from sin and the fall is being restored by Him
- The Kingdom message is Christ setting things right again - making everything sad come untrue We are temple of the Holy Spitit. And we are body of Christ.
How church present God's mission in the World?
- Christians demonstrate what life looks like under the reing of God within a distinct communuty - The church serves the world by enacting justice and meeting human needs thought compassion and mercy
2 - Some True Discipleship
disciple is learner (from greek)
The goal of spiritual formation is to be like Jesus, be like a Master
Method of spiritual formation is training
Spiritual formation not about appearances, but character.
Spiritual formation not about trying hard, but training consistentlyDisciples are not born, they are made
You need to training to be a true disciple, not to trying
Diciple - need to be deily discipline
- training every time and be disciple not just at the quit time
- be with body of Christ - with church
Deep message is not teological information or something like this but it's a deep message when it's change your life. Maybe it's just simple things but they will change your life!
пятница, 10 июля 2009 г.
What are you doing with your list of tasks?
One day Gerry spoke with Kera and me about our tasks, works, dealing...
Which order do we put them in? How do we deside what we will do at the begining, what's next?
It's realy important to draw a table where we will have cells with names -
Important/Non-important and urgent/non-urgent.
Every task we can put in different cell.
If we have a lot of important things, sometimes we need to overview them.
So tacks can be important but non-urgent. But then this task can move to important and urgent! It can happend because of our inattention or carelessness. We always need to analise tasks and choose what is important now and what is non-important and is it urgent or non-urgent.
We need to do this, if we don't want to burn out in our ministry or life.
Sometimes it's hard to decide what to do in the begining which is realy important. But it will help us not to burn out.
Which order do we put them in? How do we deside what we will do at the begining, what's next?
It's realy important to draw a table where we will have cells with names -
Important/Non-important and urgent/non-urgent.
Every task we can put in different cell.
If we have a lot of important things, sometimes we need to overview them.
So tacks can be important but non-urgent. But then this task can move to important and urgent! It can happend because of our inattention or carelessness. We always need to analise tasks and choose what is important now and what is non-important and is it urgent or non-urgent.
We need to do this, if we don't want to burn out in our ministry or life.
Sometimes it's hard to decide what to do in the begining which is realy important. But it will help us not to burn out.
четверг, 2 июля 2009 г.
1 month left
I'm so sorry, my dear friends, that I haven't writen here for a long time.
One month finished since I've been here in the United States. It's a long period of time but on the same time it's just begining.
During this time God already shows me a lot of things. This is God's present!
I have a lot of different opportunities here. One of the most important thing is that I can observe and learn how people serve God. I see that people have a strong relationship with God and between each other.
I'm reading book "The Heart of the Artist" (Rory Noland). It's a great book for people, who wants to serve God and have success, especially in worship. I want to share with you some thoughts.
The arts can be extremely powerful. They can awaken us to truth and can change lives.
Our message (ministry) is "demonstration of the Spirit's power".
Proven character is level (standart) for ministers.
Authenticiy is a powerful witness to the presence of God in our lives.
Integrity simply means doing what's right in God's eyes.
Barriers to true sevanthood: an attitude of Superiority, selfish ulterior motives, confidence in our giftedness alone.
Serventhood starts with humility. Humility means moving from selfcenteredness to God-centeredness.
Healthy boundaries are a must if we're going to serve the Lord with joy and gladness. We need to think about our family, health and in a right time say 'no' for something, if we don't want to burn out on ministry. We can spend too much time at church and neglect out family, our health, and even our relationship with the Lord but that's real shame because it doesen't glorify God to burn out.
The ultimate test of serventhood is whether you can be content to serve an audience of One, when it's OK to serve in anonymity. We need to serve God, not people or serve ourselfs.
Relationship is very important im ministry!!! But it's very hard to build them and relationship are a lot of work.
So, here is some thoughts. I continue to read this book and will share with you some thoughts again
One month finished since I've been here in the United States. It's a long period of time but on the same time it's just begining.
During this time God already shows me a lot of things. This is God's present!
I have a lot of different opportunities here. One of the most important thing is that I can observe and learn how people serve God. I see that people have a strong relationship with God and between each other.
I'm reading book "The Heart of the Artist" (Rory Noland). It's a great book for people, who wants to serve God and have success, especially in worship. I want to share with you some thoughts.
The arts can be extremely powerful. They can awaken us to truth and can change lives.
Our message (ministry) is "demonstration of the Spirit's power".
Proven character is level (standart) for ministers.
Authenticiy is a powerful witness to the presence of God in our lives.
Integrity simply means doing what's right in God's eyes.
Barriers to true sevanthood: an attitude of Superiority, selfish ulterior motives, confidence in our giftedness alone.
Serventhood starts with humility. Humility means moving from selfcenteredness to God-centeredness.
Healthy boundaries are a must if we're going to serve the Lord with joy and gladness. We need to think about our family, health and in a right time say 'no' for something, if we don't want to burn out on ministry. We can spend too much time at church and neglect out family, our health, and even our relationship with the Lord but that's real shame because it doesen't glorify God to burn out.
The ultimate test of serventhood is whether you can be content to serve an audience of One, when it's OK to serve in anonymity. We need to serve God, not people or serve ourselfs.
Relationship is very important im ministry!!! But it's very hard to build them and relationship are a lot of work.
So, here is some thoughts. I continue to read this book and will share with you some thoughts again
пятница, 19 июня 2009 г.
Think about this
Today was the last working day in this week and it was productive. But this day started with God's word and important thoughts.
Gerry, Kera and I spoke about sabbath. In Bible we can read in Genesis 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation. Does God need rest? No, but He gaves this rule for us.
If you haven't enough rest, your ministry and service become borring for you, not productive, like routine. ANd that's not right. So you need to have one day off from all tasks and give this day for God, family, friends or just for fun.
3 aspects of Experience Life:
1) love God
2) love Other - relationship
3) overflow
Motive - it's not activity but it's need to be relationship.
I'm trying to learn how to have rest from all things.
Gerry, Kera and I spoke about sabbath. In Bible we can read in Genesis 2:3 God blessed the seventh day and made it holy because on it he ceased all the work that he had been doing in creation. Does God need rest? No, but He gaves this rule for us.
If you haven't enough rest, your ministry and service become borring for you, not productive, like routine. ANd that's not right. So you need to have one day off from all tasks and give this day for God, family, friends or just for fun.
3 aspects of Experience Life:
1) love God
2) love Other - relationship
3) overflow
Motive - it's not activity but it's need to be relationship.
I'm trying to learn how to have rest from all things.
вторник, 16 июня 2009 г.
My internship
Second day of my internship finished. It was a lot of things which I've done: meetings, classes, working on the project. Everything is new for me and I'm a little nervise about all this.
My father left for his trip to other churches today, so I'm here by my self. But that's great that I can be with friends who know me and I know them too. Dad told me, and start to thing about this, how God makes all things great. In the begining I want to go to USA using Work&Travel. It's mean that you need to go without parents, to another country, maybe with friend and live there. You can't know everything what can happend! But God made that dad brought me here, showed and explaied all and I'm leaving with my friends.
I know that God prepare something special for me on this trip! Praise God for everything!
My father left for his trip to other churches today, so I'm here by my self. But that's great that I can be with friends who know me and I know them too. Dad told me, and start to thing about this, how God makes all things great. In the begining I want to go to USA using Work&Travel. It's mean that you need to go without parents, to another country, maybe with friend and live there. You can't know everything what can happend! But God made that dad brought me here, showed and explaied all and I'm leaving with my friends.
I know that God prepare something special for me on this trip! Praise God for everything!
суббота, 13 июня 2009 г.
Get to the place
We just arrived to Dallas, TX. It was very long drive, 16 hours and 1050 miles. Praise God we got safty to the place. In the way we had great time of prayer, reading book, listening music,talking.
God is creator and He is awesome. I saw today different nature and this nature beautiful and great! Thank you, Lord, that you created all this.
God is creator and He is awesome. I saw today different nature and this nature beautiful and great! Thank you, Lord, that you created all this.
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