first day for Elizabeth

 

		Elizabeths first day at kinder garden VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL This album has 10 photos and will be available on SkyDrive until 4/12/2011.

Happy New Year from Svendsen Family

Dear friends and family all over the world!
From us in Sri Lanka, we wish you all a Happy New Year.

Love from us
Greet you

Jeremiah 29:11
"For I know the plans I have for you," says the LORD. "They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.

Philippians 3:13-14
No, dear brothers and sisters, I am still not all I should be, but I am focusing all my energies on this one thing: Forgetting the past and looking forward to what lies ahead, I strain to reach the end of the race and receive the prize for which God, through Christ Jesus, is calling us up to heaven.

1 Peter 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Godt nytt år

Kjære venner!

Fra oss I Sri Lanka ønsker vi alle et Godt nytt år.

Takk fo det gamle og vi har forhåpninger til det nye, 2011.

Vil hilse dere med noen gode bibel vers for det nye året

Jeremia.29

29.11 For jeg vet hvilke tanker jeg har med dere, sier Herren, fredstanker og ikke ulykkestanker. Jeg vil gi dere fremtid og håp.

filipperne.3

13 Søsken, jeg tror ikke om meg selv at jeg har grepet det. Men én ting gjør jeg: Jeg glemmer det som ligger bak, og strekker meg etter det som er foran, 14 og jager fram mot målet, mot den seiersprisen som Gud fra det høye har kalt oss til i Kristus Jesus.

Peters første brev.kap.1

Et levende håp
3 Lovet være Gud, vår Herre Jesu Kristi Far, han som i sin rike miskunn har født oss på ny til et levende håp ved Jesu Kristi oppstandelse fra de døde,

Salmenes bok, Kapittel 37

7 Vær stille for Herren og vent på ham!

Jesaja, Kapittel 40

31 Men de som venter på Herren,
får ny kraft;
de løfter vingene som ørnen,
de løper og blir ikke utmattet,
de går og blir ikke trette.

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Matt 2,13-18

-----Original Message-----
From: svendsvendsen@newlife.lk
Sent: 12/28/2010 11:28:13 AM
To: svendsvendsen@hotmail.com
Subject: Fwd: Dagens Bibelord - Matt 2,13-18

Guds planer virker alltid

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------Original message------
From: <bibelord@bibelselskapet.no>
To: <svendsvendsen@newlife.lk>
Date: Tuesday, December 28, 2010 3:56:56 AM GMT+0100
Subject: Dagens Bibelord - Matt 2,13-18  

                                                       Dagens bibelord           Matt 2,13-18  
 13 Da de var dratt bort, viste Herrens engel seg for Josef i en drï¿œm og sa: ï¿œStï¿œ opp, ta med deg barnet og barnets mor og flykt til Egypt, og bli der til jeg sier fra! For Herodes kommer til ï¿œ lete etter barnet for ï¿œ drepe det.ï¿œ 14 Han sto da opp, tok barnet og moren med seg og dro samme natt av sted til Egypt. 15 Der ble han til Herodes var dï¿œd. Slik skulle det ordet oppfylles som Herren har talt gjennom profeten:
            Fra Egypt kalte jeg min sï¿œnn. 16 Da Herodes forsto at vismennene hadde narret ham, ble han rasende. Han sendte ut folk og drepte alle guttebarn i Betlehem og omegn som var to ï¿œr eller yngre. Dette svarte til dentiden han hadde fï¿œtt vite av vismennene. 17 Da ble det ordet oppfylt som er talt gjennom profeten Jeremia:
         
    18   I Rama hï¿œres rop,
            grï¿œt og hï¿œylytt klage:
            Rakel grï¿œter over sine barn
            og vil ikke la seg trï¿œste.
            For de er ikke mer.
                                              Dette er en gratis tjeneste fra Det Norske Bibelselskap. Du kan nï¿œr som helst melde deg av ved ï¿œ klikke pï¿œ stans abonnement             
        

Xmas time in Negombo

In Negombo we have many nice traditions since its a catholic town. One of the features are nitivity scenes all over town.. I will post them ob this blog later tonight. Its really nice.

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Fw: Jule Hilsen Fra Sri Lanka

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Kjære venner I Norge!

God Jul fra oss I Sri Lanka.

 

Ha en hyggelig Jul videre.

Roshini& Svend

Nethmi,m Sithma & Elizabeth

 

Christmas In Sri Lanka VIEW SLIDE SHOW DOWNLOAD ALL This album has 3 photos and will be available on SkyDrive until 3/25/2011.

1.December - 1.Desember english and Norsk today

Its first of December and the count down to the Christmas eve has started

But up in all this that will take place, let us not forget and lose the focus on why celebrate Christmas.

Christmas is not about Santa Claus, fat gifts, fancy cloths, nice Christmas trees and good food we will eat before and during the Christmas.

All these are just additional. No let us now up to the big celebration in advent reflect over the wise men from the east.

Like them we have started on a journey. They started early and prepared themselves to find and worship the King.

Let us do the same way, prepare ourselves these days up to Christmas.

Let our heart have a celebration of Jesus, not only this one day of the year but everyday.

Matthew 2

¹NOW WHEN Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea in the days of Herod the king, behold, wise men [astrologers] from the east came to Jerusalem, asking,

²Where is He Who has been born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east ^a]">[a]at its rising and have come to worship Him.

Det er 1 desember og vi har begynt nedtellingen til julen.

Men midt oppe I alt dette som nå skal skje, la oss ikke miste fokuset vekk fra hvorfor vi ferier Jul.

Det handler ikke om Julenissen eller gave drysset eller all den gode maten vi skal spise før og under Julen.

Alt det er et bi produkt av Julen, nei la oss nå frem til Jul nå som vi har gått inn I advent reflektere over de vise menn.

De startet sin lange reise før som vi har lagt ut på vår vandring mot Jul aften.

Mat.2

Vismennene hyller Jesus
2Da Jesus var født i Betlehem i Judea, på den tiden Herodes var konge, kom noen vismenn fra Østen til Jerusalem 2 og spurte: «Hvor er jødenes konge som nå er født? Vi har sett hans stjerne gå opp, og vi er kommet for å hylle ham.»

Så kan vi da si håpe alle kan si: Hans stjerne har den gått opp I våre liv.

Ha en god dag – I Sri Lanka skyter vi 1.desember inn, for da smeller det fra tolv om til tolv.

Shipping Chinese and starting Arabic NT , with pictures

Praise be to the Lord!

Today we started to print the Arabic NT
We finally got the files a few days ago and within hours work had started and printing almost next day for us.

Kumar the Solna operator showed me proudly the first signature of the Arabic NT and the perinting machine was spitting out the pages in a fast speed.

The machine was running and so was I since we all have a lots of work. Never a boring day at New Life Literature in Sri Lanka. We wil run over 30,000 copies on press.

On boat to China

In the other end of the factory we did something very important.

As the Arabic NT was cranking up on Solna the Chinese Bibles, Red letter edition, first time at New Life and on Goss was packed and was loaded into the 40 ciontainer.

Our great commission is getting closer and closer to an end. And when we saw these skids were loaded I got filled with such a joy.

We all from the office section came down to see it get loaded. To see our workers in action and highly in joyful doing their work.

So soon these Bibles will be on the hands of our Chinese brothers and sisters.

Multiply and be fruitful!

Next run starts within weeks if not days.

So if you want to join in to Arabic NT or Chinese Bibles get in touch with:

Arnfinn Holten

Litteraturmisjonen

NEW LIFE LITTERATURMISJONEN - Postboks 3050, 3501 Honefoss, Norway or email: ajoer-ho@online.no

or

In USA – be specific and say Chinese Bibles – from New Life Literature Sri Lanka or Arabic NT

New Life Advance Int'l

P.O. Box 35857

Houston, Texas 77235

or

Canada

ACCI (Adventive Cross Cultural Initiatives) - 89 Auriga Dr.,

Napean, ON K2E 7Z2, Canada or www.adventive.ca

Remember to write for Chinese Bibles or Arabic NT – from New Life Literature Sri Lanka or Arabic NT

Our hotel

d
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YWCA hotel in Singapore is very good and to be honest the price is not bad either.
Its very central down town.
So here you have some photos so enjoy.
Last photos from Singapore for today.

Down in the reception they had a large piano. The only thing it missed was a player and then he/she could just play away those nice, smooth songs.
Unfortunately the player, the songs and that mood was absent while we stayed there. Pity!

Some more photos of Singapore - flere bilder

Her får du noen flere bilder av Singapore.
Here you get some more photos of Singapore, including a rich-shaw and much more.
Just enjoy it.

Singapore Olympic

Prior to our arrival Singapore had the Youth olympic. How they did I don't know but its nice to know and see.

Norsk:
Like før vi kom til Singapore hadde de arrangert ungdoms OL og det var et stort arrangement. her i Asia ble dette lagt godt merke til og det var stor stats.
Hvordan det gikk med Sri Lanka og Singapore har jeg ikke peiling. Sri Lanka har som vane å komme lang bak. Hadde OL hatt med Cricket hadde de hatt en gull medalje i baklomma.

Singapore food

I fell in love with 1 dish in Singapore.
Laksa!
Its a curry hodi dish with noodles and stuff in it. Some times shrimps and some kind of meat or bread thing. And nice curry in it, but very tasty. I had it several times and really enjoy it.
So now I have asked Roshini to make it one day.
Svend

On the train in Singapore

For those who has traveled by train on the indian continent knows that go by train is an experience of its own. When you come to Singapore from where we are living, Sri Lanka it just is the west and so organized there too.
They even had a catchy jingle running every time the train was coming: The train is coming the train is coming. Please get all in line.
The only thing that was missing for this was. The train is
going, the train is going. Now we go! Or something like that


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shopping in Singapore

Have you noticed that when you go to a new country you shop.
So did I this time together with Mr.Bandu.

sightseeing - part 4

sightseeing - part 3

sightseeing - part 2

Here is part 2 of sightseeing Singapore.

sightseeing - part 1

On Friday I got the chance to look around in Singapore together with Philip from Toyochem.
He showed me around I got to see a lot of beautiful things of Singapore.
Here is part 1. Sightseeing of Singapore

Little India

We had some time on Saturday before departure so we went to India. To be more specific: Little India in Singapore down town. You went on at our railway station by our hotel and when we stepped out into Little India it was like another world. People, smells and all that. Reminded me about some parts of Colombo and I almost felt like home right away.
It was fun to see.
People were wearing salvar kamesh, traditional customs you see tamils wearing in India and Sri Lanka.
The Hindu kovil and the red dot on their heads. The nice spices and the tamil language. I really enjoyed this quick change. Just a few stops down from were we had our hotel we entered a another world.

Things I liked about Singapore

I got many impression and many things I just enjoyed there. Food, people, climate and many other things.
But some things just cought my attention. One of them was this warning sign:

OK, so you don't get a 500 dollar fine for havinga durian but you are duly warned.
I wonder WHY?
And this was on a railway station.

Trip to Singapore

Early in September, 8.we 3, Mr.Bandu, I and Daniel went to Singapore.

Why we went to Singapore?

Mr.bandu and Daniel was there to promote New Life. I came along for one reason only. Our purchase! Yes, every accountant in every company dread when their purchase manager goes shopping, so it is with us. But we went to Singapore getting a very good paper price for the Arabic NT.

Beside that Mr.Bandu and I went to meet our chemicals and ink supplier as well as many other suppliers. Unfortunately Singapore had a public holiday so my time was limited so I had to plan and work very efficient which I did when I think back.

We meet people who are very passionate about the gospel and we hope many will team up with New Life, Sri Lanka. One of our projects these days is the Arabic NT. Pray for it.

But we 3 had a good time and what we did went down very well.

Sri lankan parking

One day I was shopping with Roshini I saw this. Sri Lankan parking I say.

Pictures

I have been to Singapore in the month of September but havent added those photos yet.

But I will this weekend.

Here some fun from Norway trip: