Ashagre

What an amazing weekend we had

Last week we had great breakthrough with outreach, our outreach team went to jijiga and preach the gospel for the Somali people, our outreach team shard the gospel for many Somali people and two Somali people got saved, both of them they are Muslim, specially one of them he really decided with our outreach team and they prayed salvation prayer his name is molid,

After the outreach we came to harar with great joy. And we continue with Hailu house church in the new village five people were there and we really had amazing time.

Another great thing is Sunday meeting, am so impressed with Sunday meeting because nowadays every time we see great change and great joy in the church, Zenabo came after two month to the church and she led the worship together with Mohammed, and I preach about seek the kingdom of God first and the other  will be added for you. Over 50 people attended the meeting.

I give all the glory to God; he is the one, who do not do great thing among us, not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, faith the LORD of hosts.

For the sake of unreach people

What do we left for the kingdom of God

Luke 18:28

 Then Peter said, "See, we have left everything we have and followed you."

Jesus said to them, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left his home, wife, brothers, parents, or children because of the kingdom of God

Who will not receive many times as much in this world, as well as eternal life in the age to come?

If someone left his wife oh, let me pass this, this could be hard to explain, but if someone left his brothers for the kingdom sake he will find many brothers, if someone left his parents for the sake of Gods kingdom, he will find many parents, also if he left his children he will find many children as well.,

Jesus says that no one who gives up everything for the kingdom of God has really lost anything, because they will receive many times as much in this age, not to mention eternal life in the age of to come. Nothing that we give up for the sake of the kingdom of God do we lost. Nothing, the king will return it to us with more besides.

Whatever we give to the king for the sake of His kingdom, He will multiply and return to us. The more we give, the more we will receive, not for our own lusts or greedy desires, but so we can seek His kingdom even more, and help others to do so as well.

Jesus said, seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.

The kingdom priority is exclusive but it is not limited. God wants you to have all these things He just doesn’t want them to have you. So forsake everything for the sake of God’s kingdom. Give Him your all and He will give you all these things.

Nothing is more important than the kingdom. If we take care of the kingdom of God, He will take care of our family.

I really like this

Pastor Ashagre  woldetsadik  Tuka

For the sake of unreached people

Amen

Mat 6:33

 But first be concerned about God's kingdom and his righteousness, and all of these things will be provided for you as well.

Bright future for the church of joy

The last two month we have been extremely busy with different things, by looking the church place, after we got the church building fixing different things in the church, and having big super Sunday, preparing the bible school student and different leader training, outreached...  

After all this today we started great bible school Tuesday May 31, 2011, I started the teaching this week by showing them about their position in Christ Jesus and about the helper holy spirit.

The special thing is in this time, we have two students came completely from Muslim back ground, this two guys, Mohammed and Hussen  they got saved the last two month and they got baptized in our church and now they started the bible school. The other six of them they came from orthodox belier family.

On the other hand in two month I have wedding, I will marry beautiful selam, now a day’s am thinking and praying a lot about the wedding supplies, I hope and believe it will be good, God is a God of miracle and wonders, he changed the water to wine when they invited Jesus in the Cana wedding

 John 2:7 Jesus ordered the servants, "Fill the pots with water." And they filled them to the brim.

Now fill your pitchers and take them to the host," Jesus said, and they did.

 When the host tasted the water that had become wine (he didn't know what had just happened but the servants, of course, knew), he called out to the bridegroom,

"Everybody I know begins with their finest wines and after the guests have had their fill

Brings in the cheap stuff, But you've saved the best till now!"

 This act in Cana of Galilee was the first sign Jesus gave, the first glimpse of his glory. And his disciples believed in him.

I also did the same thing as this people did in John 2 I invited before anyone to my wedding, he will change everything to wine, and God is a God of miracle. So am praying and thinking a lot, so all my friend those who reading my blog, be my friend by praying for the work down here and for my wedding.

Am really happy about the work down here, everything growing, the children meeting, house church, praying meeting , Sundays meetings, all the time joy in the church, in the house church, all the time people got saved, got free from different things,

The Sunday meeting is growing every time, except one Sunday every time more than 50 people attended in the new church place, am so thankful, this is not by might, nor by power, but by the spirit of the LORD of hosts. I give all the glory to mighty God.

We also got one guy playing keyboard free, he came from Addis and he started to attend in our church and he started to play key board free, he also started to train some of our church members the keyboard and different instrument. Soon we will have our own keyboard player and strong singer. Thank you God  

Pastor Ashagre woldetsadik

For the sake of unreached people  

  You don't know the first thing about tomorrow. You're nothing but a wisp of fog, catching a brief bit of sun before disappearing. Jam 4:14

 All that your hand finds to do, do it with your strength, for there is no work, or planning, or knowledge, or wisdom, in Sheol, there where you go

Ecc 9:10

Whatever turns up, grab it and do it. And heartily! This is your last and only chance at it, for there's neither work to do nor thoughts to think in the company of the dead, where you're most certainly headed.

I glorified you on earth by completing down to the last detail what you assigned me to do.

John 17:4

You take over. I'm about to die, my life an offering on God's altar.

This is the only race worth running. I've run hard right to the finish, believed all the way.

All that's left now is the shouting--God's applause! Depend on it, he's an honest judge. He'll do right not only by me, but by everyone eager for his coming.

2Ti 4:6

This was the message that I shared in this morning, our life on the earth is not very long, and life is short on the earth, the bible says, whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour that appeared for a little time, and then vanished away. Because, in this short time of our life we should work hard in every direction as king Solomon said, all that our hand finds to do, we need to do it with all our strength.

We really had amazing meeting in this morning, our disciples ermiyas, motuma and aduigna started the worship with great joy, more than 45 people were attended the meeting.

Thank you Jesus

After great super Sunday

 Yesterday we had great super Sunday in the church of joy in the new church building, we really had amazing time, more than 150 people were attended, and many saved, healed, baptized in Holy Spirit, strong worship, strong preaching from guest speaker, a lot of joy, a lot of prophecy over the church and over the church members.

I just want to put some of the picture from super Sunday, take a look and enjoy.

worship leader


 some of the people in the church


ashooooo, from the new stage

New church building

The last two month we have been looking for the church place at least to rent before we buy the land, of course it is possible to buy the land , there is very good  land, in the perfect place for the church but we need money like  five hundred thousand birr , so for now we need temporary building.  Because of that we tried to find new church building with cheap price, then we found it in the best and perfect place little back of the church that we have now, it is five hundred meter in the back side of the old church building,  two thousand birr per month. Thanks to living God.

The building that we got now needs repair or  fixing some staff inside the building and outside the building , like stage, panting, the wall  and covering some parts of the building,

Last week we started to build the stage and some other things, probability we will finish the roof and decoration inside the building next week.

We will be there next Sunday in the new church, today we had amazing meeting in the old building Mohammed shared amazing word and adan from full gospel church he lead the worship amazingly, after the meeting we all went to the new church and we prayed for the area and we blessed the city, we also prayed about next Sunday. Next Sunday we will have super Sunday in the new church,

We started to distribute some flyers and some posters about next week, we will have full day meeting, like min conference, and we will have guest preacher.

I have some picture, some parts of the church, from outside and inside,

Pastor Ashagre woldetsadik

For the sake of unreached people

Ethiopia harar

 from outside

 

this inside the church while they are working the stage





the is the way to church, it is infront of hanane building the way to bota, one hundered meter

Good News

This is the Word of Jehovah to the church of joy, saying, not by might, nor by power, but by My Spirit, says Jehovah of Hosts. Zec 4:6

 ለደሰታ በክርሰቶሰ ቤተ-ክርሰቲያን  የእግዚአብሔር ቃል ይህ ነው። በመንፈሴ እንጂ በኃይልና በብርታት አይደለም፥ ይላል የሠራዊት ጌታ እግዚአብሔር፦ ዘካርያስ 4=6

Before I start to say anything about the church I just want to write something amazing from my life, I think everyone will appreciate.

Before I went to Sweden I was just thinking and looking someone to get married from my church or from somewhere else  but I was not sure about anyone  but before I went Sweden one month and when I was in Sweden I was praying about wife then someone came to my heart from my church, I was not sure about her, and I did not wanted in the beginning, but it was growing and growing in my heart about her then when I came back home from Sweden God spoken to me about her and I asked her, she became very happy and she told me as she was waiting me until I ask her.

  Now I almost started relationship with her, what do you say? I love It

Some of my friends may know the girl she saved in our church and she been in our bible school, she is still in our church, guess?

Now I started to plan to get married, probably I will get marry in July 31, that will be soon, I think I need money for the wedding at least 30 thousands Ethiopian birr, or 13 thousand Swedish kroner or 1800 American dollar, the money goes for rings, 5000 birr, for weeding cloth 5000 birr, for food 5000 birr, for the car rent 2000 birr, and the other goes for the hotel and for the other costs and for the honeymoon vacation.

I have faith for this much money and to have the wedding, of course I don’t have that much money , on my bank account I may have one tenth of it only, but I have all the money in God account , he is my provider, the  ONLY POSSESION that I have is GOD, as long as  I am working his work he will work my work too , I have God.

 Of course if anyone want to support this and want to help the costs, the door is open for everyone to help, this is my account number, S/A 823 Bank of Abyssinia,Harar  Branch Ethiopia

 Or commercial bank of Ethiopia harar branch, Account number42599

 God will bless you. 

On the other hand the church is growing and doing great, soon we will have new compound four hundred meter from our old church little back and we had agreement to have it. Next week probable he will finish it all the ground. We will start the stage and panting and the roof then we will be there after three weeks.

The other thing Dawit he came from mekela, with his son and with …..

 Otherwise everything going very good, everyone is fine and doing very good. Zenabo and Mohammed had handsome little child.

We had amazing leader training last Saturday 13 people were there and had the training, they were very happy and they are ready to take the responsibility in the church, this training will continue for two more Saturdays, in the last Saturday we planned to pray with all the leaders and giving different responsibilities , like ushers, youth, prayer , worship department …

 The other great news is we found new church building with cheap price, little back of the church that we have now, it is five hundred meter in the back side of the old church building, two thousand birr per month.

The building that we got now needs repair or fixing some staff inside the building and outside the building, like stage, panting, the wall and covering some parts of the building.

So we are ready for the work, next week we will start stage, and the roof then we will continue after we finished, the stage and the roof, cleaning the compound, a lot of work but happy, I love it

On the other hand we are looking for new bible school student, last week we graduated five student, now we are aiming for 8 or 10, because we have five already we will add some more, the special thing is in this time we have Muslim believer, in this time there will be Muslim half of the student, that feels amazing.  We may start after three week after we been in the new church building, after three weeks we will have great Sundays celebration time in the new church building, we will have full time meeting like small conference in the morning and in the afternoon,

This conference will be introducing time for the church of joy in the city, am so excited about it

God is amazing, he is doing amazing things by his power, thank you God, I love you God.

Pastor Ashagre woldetsadik

For the sake of unreached people

Ethiopia harar

The last days after Sweden trip it has been amazing time with all my family Mohammed, zenabo, nefhtalem, Sarah, and with all my beautiful church members, I really had amazing Sunday I preached from 1Th 5:16 be cheerful no matter what;

1Th 5:17 pray all the time;

1Th 5:18 thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live. About Gods will for everyone’s, to be happy always, to pray all the time and to thank God no matter what happens.

The last three days I also taught the bible school students about the second coming of Jesus Christ, was powerful, everyone was happy.

Am so excited about tomorrow house church and prayer meeting, am looking forward.

I and Mohammed planned big outreach for Saturday to take them Babile, new bible school students and the entire former bible school student together, 15-16 people will be in the outreach, it will be great.

soon will disapper the snow, soon i also go home

in march two in the middle of night i started my way to sweden and after 11 houres i reached sweden , for the person has not been sweden or other europian country for the person  like me , it looks a little bit hard, as you know ethiopia has thrteen month sunshine and everything is very hot.any way am in sweden and i started to see the city, to be honest with you there are big difference between ethiopia and sweden,in everything.
any way i like it,
yestarday and today i have got chance to talk with some of swedish people in the train, i asked about thire belife and i asked them as they belive in God, but they answerd me  as they dont belive in God even they said they are not sure as there is God, that is a little bit stange, to me because in africa specially in ethiopia, they can be muslim, or ortodox, or other kinds of religious they have if you ask them as there is God in heaven, they all say yes there is God, i belive in God they s

 i have been in sos church sunday it was amazing meeting it was super sunday, 20 people got saved a lot of joy was there.
i also got chance to eat together with yohannes in the Greek reasturant.amazing , one of my best brother and friend Erik took me today to macdonal, myket bra, i like it,
i will continue to blog soon this is only the introduction , Blessssssssssssssssssssssss you ashu welde from ethiopia

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, says, the LORD of hosts. Zech 4:6

When the Holy Spirit takes over the church and the work everything will be easy and perfect. The last two weeks Holy Spirit done great things among our church members and in the church

Three weeks ago we have started new bible school; we have eight in the class, last week I really enjoyed when I teach them about righteousness’s in Christ Jesus they are so hungry for the word of God.

Let me show you my friends some of the things happened in the last three weeks.

Jan 1, Saturday

Outreach – Big outreach in a village

Kids’ Church – 32 children joined us for our special Christmas party in HCJ and heard the message of salvation through Jesus!

Jan 8-9, Saturday and Sunday

HCJ Conference!

Saturday morning and afternoon, disciples of HCJ were on the streets inviting everyone to come to the conference.

Saturday night, Daniel preached, 12 saved and many prayed for healing – 80 attended

Sunday morning, I  preached, 3 saved – Daniel also officially instated Ashagre as Senior Pastor and Mohammed and Zinabwa as Assistant pastors of HCJ, prayed and prophesied over them with Samuel and Gabrielle – Samuel and Gabrielle also were sent out with church’s blessing to next task – 50/55 attended

Daniel spoke to and encouraged everyone at the base in Harar during his visit.

Jan 11, Tuesday

Team gathering with Daniel – he led the team in prayer and worship and preached about faith, everyone was encouraged!

Bible School, which started one week before festival with 5 students, started a new week with 8 students! All are eager learners and doing well, baptized in Holy Spirit and filled with joy!

Jan 13, Thursday

The saddest thing in harar city happened, it started the fire, in the midst of the night, and this was sad news.

 Early morning – fire destroyed much of the Shoawber markets of Harar, families who worked as vendors lost everything and many people were devastated by the loss.

Jan 15, Saturday

Outreach – Evangelism teams sent out 2 by 2 into the city

Kids’ Church - One 11 year old girl’s family was one who lost wares in the fire; on Saturday morning we were able to pray for and encourage her – 19 children attended

Jan 16, Sunday

Mohammed  preached at HCJ – 1 man saved - 40 attended

Rioting started in Shoawber between people and government; 3 police officers were killed in the disturbance

Jan 18, Tuesday

First team gathering in which the Strandbergs were not present – time of prayer and worship was strong and unified, everyone praying in faith!

After the gathering I  appointed Sarah as Team Secretary.

Jan 19, Wednesday

I visited a village where a recent house church was planted. Several members of this village are enrolled in the Bible School and one of these, a man named Zemedku, took me to visit his mother who was very sick (one breast severely swollen and severe pain in the knee). During his visit, he was able to preach salvation and the woman was saved with tears flowing down her cheeks! We await an update of her healing after she was prayed for – God surely touched this woman!

Jan 21, Friday

Two of our new Bible school students, Yosef and Marta, were baptized in water today!

Jan 22, Saturday

Outreach to Caladamba district – 3 people saved!

Kids Church – 28 children attended; Tshay led the service and preached

Jan 23, Sunday

Powerful worship led by  Sinabwa, Pastor Ashagre preached – 1 man saved. More than 50 attended.

Happy charismas

Let me speak little, about my weeks and my church and little about charismas

The last two weeks am reading and meditating, Psa 133=1-3 about   Aaron's beard and oil on his head,

‘How good and pleasant it is when brothers can live together!

It is like fine oil on the head, running down on the beard, running down Aaron's beard, on his robes.

It is like the dew of Hermon falling on the mountains of Zion. For there the LORD has appointed the blessing--life forevermore. ;

As we read here Aaron has special kinds of perfume and oil which Moses was ordered to make of the principal spices, and therefore called precious; and which was poured on the heads of kings and priests, when they were anointed with it, Exo_30:23;

These special kinds of oil and perfume

Ran down upon the beard, Aaron’s beard; this was put upon the head of Aaron when he was anointed. Because of this perfume, when Aaron pass or stand on the temple all the people can easily smell or recognized who he is, because the perfume smells very good, he don’t have to speak about himself, the perfume speaks about him, as he is priest and as he is the man of God and as he is the servant of God.

Many ministers like to speak about themselves as they are pastors, evangelist, prophet ...  but the good thing is if we stop talking about ourselves the people can easily smell the perfume that we anointed,

What we need is having the precious ointment upon our head, hallelujaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

God is doing great thing in our church, In the last four- five weeks we have more than forty people in our Sundays meeting, sometimes fifty and more, that is really good, also God giving us many new people ,Yesterday  seven new people signed for new bible school from those who saved the last three four weeks, we hope we will have more people in the bible school, after one and half week we goanna start the fives bible school class, probably we will have ten people in this class.

With this nice blog i just want to say happy charismas for all my Swedish family, brother sister, and.....for all my American family (Gab and Sarah), and so on

I love you all

Happy charismas

Rom 8:31-39 -

What shall we say to these things? The rest of the chapter is a hymn of triumph over this assurance of salvation.

If God be for us, what has been shown, shows that he is for all who love God. If he is on our side, we must prevail.

He that spared not his own Son. If he gave his Son to die for us, it is impossible that he should refuse us anything that will help or bless us. He has nothing he values more than his Son.

Who shall lay anything to the charge of God's elect? No one can, since God himself has justified them.

Who is he that condemned? There can be no condemnation (Rom_8:1) since Christ died . . . is risen . . . and makes intercession for us. There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus.

Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Can anything? Can the sufferings of the Christian calling in a time of persecution, such as the prophet described and the early Christians suffered?

As it is written, In Psa_44:22, Will such persecution lead us to abandon Christ?

 Not all these sufferings can lead us from Christ, for

In all these things we are more than conquerors. We overcome by the aid of him that loved us.

For I am persuaded, No hostile power of the universe can lead us away, is the apostle's holy confidence.

Neither death nor life. These adversaries seem to advance in pairs. Death is named first, because death by martyrdom threatens. The next pair is angels, and principalities and powers. "The angels" are good angels, while malignant angels are meant by the other terms.

Nor things present, nor the things to come. The present or the future.

Nor height, nor depth, Perhaps, the things which exalt us and the things which cast us down. Things high and things low.

Nor any other creature, any other created thing.

Shall be able, None of these, "I am persuaded," shall have power enough to tear us away from Christ, by causing us to apostatize.

The love of God, which is in Christ. God's great love for us is all shown through Christ. Nowhere has Paul shown more exultation, more overflowing emotion, than in this close of a profound argument, which shows the complete and full salvation of those who believe upon Christ and are found in him.

The love of God, which is in Christ.

Saves

Heals

Helps

Gives joy

Freedom

Happiness

Love

Everything

Thanks to my Jesus....................I love you my Jesus

After amazing week

Last week in our church a lot of things happened, some of the things are as follows….

Tuesday I have taught five new saved people, and then Wednesday four of them got baptized.

Saturday we had outreach in two places in babila and in harar, the new bible school student went to babila with Mohammed, and I took the former bible school students with me in to shankor kebela in harar ,this area is very small area but many people lives there. The people those who baptized in Wednesday came from there when our evangelist preached. God is doing great thing in that village. Now almost they became seven from that village only. Last Saturday we also started house church directly there.

Sunday we had great meeting, Zenabo lead the worship, Pastor Samuel preached amazing word of God. It was really breakthrough, four people got saved

Now am resting and refreshing for next, and looking for ward another new week.

What kinds of church we have

Without the Gospel period there would be no church history, for the church was founded by Jesus Christ and built on the type of confession of faith in Christ which Peter made(see Mt.16=13-19).

Since the basic mission of the church is to proclaim the Gospel (good news) of Christ and make Disciples of all the nations (Mt.28=18-20), it is essential to understand what Jesus accomplished and taught through His life, death and resurrection.

Am really so blessed with the church that I belong to, our church big concern is not different office work or different committees gathering and something else but our main concern is reaching unreached people in harar and everywhere.

As  I tried to mention above in our church every time , the people getting saved, the people got baptized in water and Holy spirit, every Saturday our disciple have outreach, bible school, house church, follow up, morning gathering, visiting the disciple, wow… a lot of life, and full of life thanks to living God. What a church we really have.

To speak the truth am so happy about my church, because there is a lot of life .today we have baptized four people in water, three of them we have got them from Saturday outreach when our disciple preached. One of them from Sunday meeting,

When I see our disciples running for gospel, that makes me cry because am so happy.

Blessed be the name of the Lord










we will make  the heaven  full with alot of people.