Night life

These days has been hot and we are not functioning as normal, everything is a bit slower than in the winter.
We have started to take "siesta" to see if we function better in the cooler hours in the night and the morning, so far it seems easier to use the late hours than the early... But it's for sure nicer to be up when it's less then 30°
So tonight after 10 Lena started working in the kitchen, making yummy cinnamon rolls and "Pink Lemonade".
Kenneth is at the computer, trying to understand and finish a summer course in 3D animation.

Love actually-Love in action

Thassos Christian Fellowship have had a conference at pentecost for a few years and so we did this year. This year pentecost was quite late and so the conference was in mid June. It was a good event as always, brothers and sisters gatherd to hear good biblical teaching, fellowship, worship and get new challanges.
The theme for this year was "Love actually- love in action" and we wanted it to be a practical teaching for everyday life. We did not only have teachings but after every sermon we took time for workshops to ask our selfs- how does this apply to my life?

The first session our pastor, Dimitri, was teaching, giving us an introduction to the weekend.
In the evening Tommy (a Swede living in Thessaloniki) was talking about reaching the community around us and then the next morning another Swede, Bosse (that is working with rehabilitation of addict peopel) was beautifully charing from the story of the good samarian (Luk 10:25-37)- who is your neighbour in need? Later, in the evening, we had a german brother working as a missionary in Turky visiting us talking about our call to "Pain and joy"- and he know pain is a risk we take, his brother in law was killed a few years ago because of his calling to spred the good gospelnews to whoever wanted to hear. On Sunday morning we had our last meeting and a british friend, Jerome, was concluding the event with a sermon from 1Cor 13- In what ever you do, do it from love.Love is for sure the bottom line for all our work and that was also our conclusion at most of the workshops- “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind’; and, ‘Love your neighbor as yourself.’- If you do that you will find it easy to do what's right.

The family Schut visiting

Hans and Jeanet on the top at Limenas

Playing "throw the stone as near the first stone as possible"

Finding amazing, juicy, tasty berrys on a tree. We named them "bloodberrys" because that's what it looked like...

A visit in Filippi, the top picture is the market place mentioned in the book of acts (16:19) and then down right what is traditionaly called the prison of Paul (Acts 16:23-31)

Hans is teaching at our Tuesday gathering on the beach.

Thank you Hans for letting us use your pictures! They are very nice.

bits of our life

June 6 is the national day of Sweden. We were having Ulf-Åke and Anette here who had brought some nice Swedish "Matjesill"- Soused herring. We didn't do much of a celebration because as a swede you don't really know how to celebrate the national day (it's only been a holyday for 6 years and we don't have any traditions connected to it) but we made a nice summer meal and pleace notice our lovely swedish flags in the strawberrys.
When Felix and Elvira came we were picking them up in Thessaloniki and they came right to the center of what they at home read in the newspaper. It was a national strike in a bankrupt Greece and on the mainstreet of Thessaloniki we met a procession of demonstrators. I'm not sure what it was about this time.

I just realized that we have not taken any picturs of any of our guests since the team was here. Except this one of Lena together with Felix and Elvira on the top of our Acropolis (the top just above where the team was staying. Kenneth took the picture from our balcony).

As time goes by...

Hello friends and other readers. Time is flying, passing and making it's mark. In just a few days we're having midsummer! It's about four weeks since the team left and almost a month since our last post on the blog... We have enjoyed fellowship with visiting friends, beeing part of hosting a conference, making online summer class, start to adjust our home for our third roomer.

Ok, I will start by introduce our Serbien friend Nicola that has been staying with us for almost two month now! He's a cool guy in about our age. He know greek like we wish we did.. He's been living in Greece for some years but has his family in northen Serbia. He came to the island to find a job and be part of our fellowship. We welcomed him to stay with us, thinking that he would stay for maybe a week then get a job and with that some money and so beeing able to find his own housing. But we have the spare room so we said why not just as well stay with us and by that helping us with our rent. The paychecks has not been so regular so it would also be hard for him aswell to pay a full rent somewhere.

At pentecost the fellowship were having a conference. I will make a seperate post about that.

Then we have had some good friends visiting. First there was a couple from Örebro that we got to know when we came for the conference two years ago. It's wounderful to be inspired by their love for the Lord Jesus and their heart for the greek people. They were also a blessing during the conference. Anette plays the guitar and sing her own songs and Ulf-Åke is never late to help in any way needed. Thank you for beeing part of our fellowship even though you live far away.

At the same time as Ulf-Åke and Anette was here we also were having the privilege of meeting Bosse from Tingvallahemmet and his family (Kenneth has done their homepage). Even though he came with family and was looking forward to enjoy the beach and an vacation with his loved ones he was part of our conference. The topic of the conference was "Love actually- Love in action" and Bosse was talking about reaching the lost- to whom can we be "a good samaritan".

Then we were having a visit from our church in Stockholm. Felix and his daughter came to see us and explore the beaches of Thassos :-). As much as possible we went with them to make sure they found the best beaches (sometimes you have to give up your rights to be able to serve, you know...). They are good people to have around, easy going and fun. Thanks for playing games with Lena, she's been missing that.

Now Kenneth is doing his homework for a internet class he's taking this summer. He's learning how to make 3D objects for filmmaking. His fourth exercise has to be done by today so it's a full day at the computer.

The Floorballtour.

Klick HERE to see the film.

Thanks to our team!

Our Swedish team that has been here for four weeks with us.

Klick HERE to see the film.