Viagem Missionária Leste :)

Olá amigos da ABUB,

         No último fim de semana (27 e 28 de novembro) a Região Leste fez sua primeira viagem missionária à região Sul-fluminense, Volta Redonda (VR) e 3 Rios. Partimos do Rio de Janeiro e nos dividimos em 2 grupos, para isso alugamos 2 carros, neles estavam Matheus (UFRJ), Andre Brites (UFRJ), Willian (UFRRJ), Diego (UFF), Melina (UFRJ), Dayse (UFRJ), Loide (UFRRJ).

         Nosso objetivo foi de fortalecer o grupo em 3 Rios e fomentar um novo grupo em VR, através de novos contatos, como estudantes e pastores nas igrejas locais. Além disso, o sul-fluminense é uma região super estratégica para a Missão, uma vez que muitas universidades estão surgindo e crescendo.

         Nosso primeiro destino foi VR, onde conhecemos um estudante da UERJ - Resende e outro ex-estudante da UFF - VR. Apresentamos a ABU e batemos muito papo, e eles tem muito desejo no coração de levar a mensagem de Cristo à outros estudantes, e sabem que os grupos de ABU são um ótimo meio para tal. 

        Após a visita à Presbiteriana de VR, partimos para a Presbiteriana Viva de VR, onde apresentamos a ABUB no culto jovem e fizemos novos contatos importantíssimos e estratégicos.

        Fomos então para 3 Rios, e lá, dormimos na casa de um Pastor Angolano, chamado Raul e sua esposa Sirlene. Nosso amigo Diego da UFF gostou tanto do Raul que não parava de "chamar o Raul". Enfim, fomos abençoados por esse casal que abriram sua casa para nos hospedar tão tarde da noite. No domingo, nos dividimos em 3 grupos e fomos para 3 diferentes igrejas. Em uma pregamos, outra demos testemunho e em todas apresentamos o movimento estudantil - ABUB.

        Fomos surpreendidos pela ação de Deus nas 3 igrejas, parecia uma mini parte prática do IPL. Conhecemos muitos estudantes, tanto universitários quanto futuros universitários, e todos mostraram um amor e empolgação para com a missão estudantil. Hoje temos novas igrejas em contato naquela região, e pastores que estão dispostos a nos ajudar. 

       Depois dos cultos nas igrejas, almoçamos junto com alguns membros do grupo ABU - 3 Rios, depois tomamos sorvete, fizemos um louvor, oramos e voltamos para o Rio às 15 horas.

        Somos muito agradecidos pela oportunidade que tivemos de conhecer novos estudantes, e apesar de muitos afazeres e muitas provas, todos os 7 Abuenses do RJ foram muito abençoados. Talvez você possa participar da nossa próxima viagem, né?

Agradecemos:

-Pelas doações que foram essenciais, e a quantidade foi exata.

-Pela Viagem tranquila (apesar da guerra do Rio)

-Pelos estudantes de VR e 3 Rios que nos ajudaram na Logística.

-Pelos novos contatos (estudantes e pastores)

-André Brites passou no mestrado na UFRJ (uhuuu)

Pedimos oração:

-Por aqueles que querem começar um grupo de ABU em VR e Resende.

-Fortalecimento do grupo de 3 Rios, por novos membros.

-Provas dos ABUenses no final de período

Em Cristo,

Matheus Iglesias

ABU- UFRJ

Språket issues og When :)

I never thought I would be able to do things I have done. During the fall course I was amazed when the teachers told us that some of the last Hald students got so good at speaking Norwegian that they were able to hold a speech in Norwegian, I was shocked saying "howcome? This language is so difficult." 

It was new to hold a long speech in English, but even newer and more challenging to have it in Norwegian, even though it was not that long. But yes, I did it two times. I get so impressed with myself when I look behind and I see what I have achieved, so far, through this exchange program.
Unfortunately, I don't have pictures of all my speeches, but here are some.

I am just thankful for everything I have been through in Norway, when no one seemed to include me on their conversation, when someone helped me and taught me some Norwegian, when someone took me to go skiing and snowboarding, when someone dared to shake hands, when someone called me to ask if I had programs for the weekend, when I played drums in the worship, when I had to concentrate and pay attention to what everyone was saying and had to come up with more subject so I could keep the conversation in English, when I said 'I give up, this language is too hard' then I started speaking very well hehe, when I started using only expressions in Norwegian without noticing it, when I got frustated when no one came to say hi to me in the church, when I had to pretend that I had understood so the conversation could flow, when I realized that some people don't enjoy speaking English and they hid from me, when I understood that many of my friends do not fit the Norwegian steryotype, when I saw that they are really willing to bring Jesus to university, when I understood that some really care about others and some use their money wisely, others do not, when I travelled up north, when I saw the Northern lights, when I had so much fun in Aalesund, when Cassia visited me and we had a wonderful time together, when big challenges knocked on my door and I managed it with a lot of work, 

I have seen how God has helped through every situation, I only hope that everyone knew how important this time has been for myself. I dared to get out of my comfort zone and put my life into God's hands, so He could shape it all over again, It has been amazingly worth. What about you, when are you getting out of your comfort zone?

Vassfjellet snoebrek

Liverpool - Relevant week!

Several feelings have appeared these days during this week. I was in Liverpool helping the CU (Christian Union) with the RELEVANT WEEK!, and I still do not know how to describe it. I cannot put the whole thing into words, but I could say that God did use the Christians students to talk and spread out the Good News in the Liverpool University.

That lasted for 5 days (1st to 5th of March). Me, Marius, velge and Bjorni were there from Norway to help. I had to tell them all the time that I was from Brazil and was only working in Norway for a year and so on.
We were staying with students at Uni halls. We woke up at 7 and every hall had its own prayer meeting from 7.30 to 8.30, then we headed to the university where we had breakfast. At 10am we had a meeting with some students and guests til 11am, with a devotion and prayer for the day where we encouraged each other to keep on with the good work and shared what had happened the day before. At 11am we met more students and we prayed for the questionares and flyers. From 11 to 1pm we had the action groups in action, which was basically inviting people to come to our Lunch bars with specific topics or asking them questions about the questionare, it all ended purposely to talk about Jesus and The Good News. The lunch bars were from 1pm to 1.40pm and afterwards there were always some people talking and having their questions answered. Then we had all the afternoons free, and we got to know a little bit of Liverpool - pretty cool. At 7 we had different kinds of meeting at university, with cake, tea, sweets, music and then Michael Ots would come and talk a bit about the Gospel and explain a parable of Jesus. We normally had very good conversations after that with non-Christians and Christians.

I just felt so different to be in this kind of environment where prayer is taken seriously and spending time praying is fundamental. While in Norway, I know that they do understand the importance of it and so on, but they just don't feel like coming to a prayer meeting or praying before doing something. I guess the formality that was put into prayer in Norway made it some sort of an unrelational thing. Maybe this is because I come from a catholic country. Well, this is my point of view, I certainly think that this is not yours (especially if you are Norwegian). Feel free to comment!

If possible, can you guys pray for some of these names, they are all students in Liverpool and are open to receive Christ as their saviour. I hope I receive some good news on the next weeks!

Patrick
Guy
Cedeid
Abhijit Mathad
There are others, but can't remember now.

Also pray for the committe who organised the week, they did an amazing job :)

Kan jeg klare det? Jo, det kan jeg.

Jeg har tenkt på å skrive her på norsk, men jeg sier alltid til meg selv at det er så vanskelig og at jeg ikkje kan gjøre det. I dag, har jeg bestemt meg fot at selv om jeg gjor feil, så gjor det ingenting. Jeg skal heller ikkje se i notatboken min etter nye ordene eller ordene jeg har glemt, fordi jeg kan skrive denne uten noen ting å se. Min hjerne har alt jeg trenger :)

Jeg håper at når man oversetter denne, kan dere fortå hva jeg har skrevet. Hvis det ikke virke blir mye gøy med de feile ordene mine og noe engelsk. Vel, jeg vecha hva jeg skal snakke om her, men det er supert
å skrive noen ting på norsk... Forsøker å få til å tro at jeg kan snakke norsk, haha.

Jeg gleder meg til å se de norske vennene mine tilbake på Hald, fordi nå kan jeg forstå så mye mer og de kan ikke snakke om oss uten at jeg forstår (Understanding på norsk har vaert ukjent for meg til nå).

Når du ser posten min, så er det morsomt at jeg begynner hver setninger med "jeg" hahaha. Jeg husker når man starter å laere et språk og alt man kan skrive er Jeg blablabla, første tingen du laerer er "jeg er sulten"

Uhuuuuu mitt først brev på norsk, oh jeg ønsker jeg kunne si at "proud" ahhh glemte det...learte det i går :/

Liktet du min forste post på norsk?? Kan dere hjelpe meg å fortelle meg om mine feil?


 

 
Må Gud velsigne deg :)

Det er typisk norsk aa tjene penger for krig!

     I start my post translating or at least trying "It is typical Norwegian to give money to "war" or something like this". Maybe I should set a link between one of the books I am diving into these days and this phrase which I saw on one of the stands at Impuls - Trondheim from 5.-7 mars.
     The book says a lot about how different people became just by living in different hemispheres. It is like in Norway, because of the big mountains it used to be quite hard for people from opposite sides of the country to communicate, then what happened? They started talking differently and making their own sub-language. This is totally-extremely bad nowadays when foreigners have problems to learn the language.
           Well, I forgot that I should say a bit about the book. It says so much about relationships and how different people deal with this subject differently. It was clear that money does not bring the magic potion of no-loliness, no-parents divorce or no-relationship problems.
           I have been touched by those who spend time with the neglected ones, the little kids, the marginalized, those who do not have the same opportunities in life. Though money has its importance and its role on the big picture, our deeds toward people will last a thousand times more than just our money. How hard is it to talk with people and give them hope through Jesus Christ? Tremendously hard, I would say. We would rather give them money because there is no embarassement and money is never a problem in a society where the average income is approximately 30.000 NOK which is 10.000 reais while in Brazil people live with 300 reais p/month.
            Give your money but also give yourself... When are we gonna learn this? It is not about us, it is about the little ones. Jesus said that "Anything you do to these little ones you do it to me"

Being a Christian means tremendously more than having several binders of Evangelism, fellowship or whatever on our shelves, but it is about being ready to do the good work of Jesus Christ.

 

Liked you piece of art? I did it, all the letters... uhuu!
From 5-7 March I was at Impuls in Trondheim and me, Joachim and Marie were at the LAGETs stand there. It was awesome to see all the kids again from Skolelaget and be part of it is definitely Gods work.

Hald - Infield Course

Snow? Yes, a lot.

Well, after spending 2 months at Hald during fall course it was pretty hard to picture this place full of snow... it is just awesome, -15 degrees hehe.
It is just so hard to cope with everything, waking up early in the morning, having time for breakfast, many classes, ligretto. It has been kind of heavy, I would say. It has been so nice to see everyone again and hear their stories. Some classes are helpful to reflect upon what has happened during this time of internship in Trondheim - and perhaps improve something, challenge more myself and understand some of the stuff that has happened on myself.

I should say also that Christimas' and New years celebrations were different and surprisingly awesome with a lot of food. Cassia is in Norway since 23rd of december and it has helped me so much to overcome all I miss from Brazil or I would say it in Norwegian, which is å savne or in portuguese saudades.

From now on I have 3 months to accomplish some challenges for myself and regarding my work in Trondheim and Ålesund... The problem is that it goes quite fast and suddenly it is gone. My goal from now on should be to focus more on specific stuff. it is already in the middle which is weird to imagine when I remember that I was at Hald few months ago learning how to say my name in Norwegian or where I live which is much easier that I thought.

I am just looking forward so much to start working this winter and also to see my girlfriend again!!! Looking forward to go back to Ålesund, to speak more Norwegian, to pretend that i am a norwegian hhehehe which is something that I normally do until I open my mouth to say something a bit more difficult than hi and nice to meet you or where is it or that and blablabla... It has worked out.

It has been so much fun and work...

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