In the evening on Saturday, we met at the home of Jim and
Lynn Jarman in Liljeholmen, for dinner and a time of discussion and prayer. Jim and Lynn are involved in three
organizations: Converge (as Directors for Sweden); Reach Global (as coaches for
church leaders and Church planters); and New Life Network (where they are part
of the lead team and they also coach the pastors and leadership teams at the
site churches in Sweden (in Stockholm, Västerås, and Gothenburg)). Specific prayer items for Jim and Lynn
include: they are coaching about 10
pastors and leaders regularly (pray that this work would be fruitful in
nurturing these church leaders); the New
Life Church group is having a large women’s retreat in the summer (please pray
that this would be a time for spiritual growth and community-building for the
attendees); in October, Jim and Lynn are leading church planting seminars in
the Baltic countries (pray that these sessions would help equip many new church
leaders); several of the New Life church sites are looking to plant new
churches (pray that they would have wisdom on the timing and location of new
churches that are started; the New Life Network has planted about one new
church per year over the last few years); a prayer of praise for their new apartment, which they will move to next month (they needed to leave their current apartment and were able to locate one in the same neighborhood, which was a miraculous story).
Kristi (L) and Lynn in conversation during our buffet dinner.
Carol, Lynn, and Karin.
Jim and Paul
Lynn and Jim