Pax Eternam

I translated for the ‘Heavenly Man’

jdposthuma2 — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 08:29:01 +0000

So, last night, the ‘Heavenly Man,’ a Christian brother from China who’s been in prison 3 times for preaching the gospel, came to our church to speak. He’s had a lot of great expiriences and written a couple of books. I think he really has a strong annointing of the presence of the Lord and I’ve heard a lot about him in the last few years. I had the priviledge last night of translating for him at our church service. What an honor!

Jesus Revolution

jdposthuma2 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:19:20 +0000

Below is a video I made of the outreach that we made to Vienna last week, really cool to see doors opened to us that have not been previously.

Jesus Revolution

jdposthuma2 — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 12:05:52 +0000

internship brothers

jdposthuma2 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:38:22 +0000

A few nights ago, we had a very special time of fellowship with some of the guys in our apartment. Michael and Martin were here after spending some overtime in the office in preparation for U-turn, one of Tyler’s South African friends was here. After tea and lebkuchen were served, we just began to talk about our dreams for the future, our calling, and what church is like in all of our countries. I think all of us thought that the churches in each of our countries was in a state of disarray and it could be doing a lot more to help abate the crime in South Africa, preach the gospel to the lost effectively in America, or capture the essence of Jesus’ words here in Catholic Austria. I went to sleep with the feeling that it is possible to do Christ’s work, no matter how tough the situation is.

first african in western art…

jdposthuma2 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:33:47 +0000

A couple of weeks ago, the three of us went to visit a monk that we’d met in one of the museums we visited. He was an American priest over here on some sort of exchange program. It turned out he lived in this fabulous monastery built around 1000 AD. One of the treasures of the monasery was a guided storyboard-type-thing that contained the first representation of an African in western art (it was the queen of Sheba). So much history right there, it was amazing.

More than that though, I was really impressed at his genuinely Christian heart. Not only did he show us very gracious hospitality, he was genuinely excited to be there, doing the ministry because, as he said “Jesus changed my life!” This was encouraging for me to hear because, as some of you know, I really believe that God has it in His heart to reconcile the Catholic church back to himself.

chillin’ out on the town

jdposthuma2 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:18:44 +0000

I remember one visiting professor back at Bethany College, really a veteran missionary, who told us that the best times of ministry and sharing that he’s ever had have been ’sitting under the bannana tree,’ just talking with people, encouraging them, arguing the scriptures with them, on a one-to-one basis. I’ve also been learning more and more that the kingdom of God is not so much a matter of a new program or another church service. Although these things are good, and I do enjoy the sense of accomplishment from a good day in the church office, most of the best times that I have come when I’m just acting like a Christian wherever I am.

my boss, gerhard

jdposthuma2 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:09:54 +0000

It is my pleasure to introduce to you Gerhard, my acting internship supervisor for these 8 months. He stand about 6′ 3″ tall, has an impressive build, and tends to be a bit intimidating, but it really is my privildge to work with him. He’s been a leader in the evangelical church movement here in Austra for the past 30 years, back when there were only a handful of people in the movement.

translation work

jdposthuma2 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 14:05:18 +0000

81% complete with what has become a monumental translation project of the computer program Excellerate. This is a church organizational database-type program currently is only avaliable in English and Spanish, but hopefully, by the end of January ‘07, will also be open to the German-speaking community as well.

charlie brown christmas

jdposthuma2 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 13:59:16 +0000

It says in Psalm 68 that the Lord sets the lonely in families and this Christmas has proved to be no exception. It was just a blessed time with good friends, incredible food, amazing wine, and very heart-filling times of Christian fellowship. Some notable parts of the weekend would be the lutafisck, a type of Scandinavian fish preserved in lard.

They also gave us two Christmas gifts that were very special to me. One, original Swedish house shoes made by Ulla’s mother and two, a copy of a special edition Gospel of Mark in Russian. It was a leather cover with plastic pages and small enough to fit into one’s mouth. It was actually ideal for circulating around Soviet prisons, if a guard suddenly came by, one could pop it in their mouth, their cup of coffee, really anything, and it wouldn’t be damaged because it was plastic and leather. Robert had smuggled several of them into Moscow himself.

LISTEN! to me preach in bosnia

jdposthuma2 — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 09:55:53 +0000

Download audio file (Searching-for-Purpose-in-Bosnia.mp3)

this mp3 is from one of my first weeks here. we took a missions trip to bosnia and held a youth conference for about 100 kids.