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Thank you very much for your inspiring messages Pastor Ravi. You trully contributed in my spiritual upkeep during the time when I was in DK last year and may the Lord Almighty continue make use of you in His work and may you and your family continue being blessed by the Lord.
Stay Blessed,
Edith January
(Zimbabwe)
Hello Pastor Ravi Chandran,
Thank you so much for giving me the opportunity of speaking in your lively congregation on Sunday, the 12th September 2010.
I was immensely blessed being in the worship service and experienced the manifest presence of God in the midst of the congregation. You have been blessed with committed co-workers who faithfully led the entire service with great fervour, passion and dedication. This is the reflection of your effective leadership - turning Members into Ministers!
May the Lord continue to use you mightily and increase your congregation!
In the Service of Christ,
Labourer Selva Prabhakar
Living Word Church of India, New Delhi - India
Dear Pastor Ravi,
I wanted to tell you how God used you and the people of ICC so profoundly during my time here in Copenhagen. I remember walking in the church doors the first day and I could sense the spirit of Jesus so strongly in the hearts of the people. I thank you for always being so friendly and warming.
Actually I had 2 friends come with me to ICC one Sunday and they had never gone to church before. When I talked with them after the service they said: “We just love your pastor!” They didn’t feel judged for how you at all. I also wanted to thank you for how much you involve children so much in the church and with the family services. I know that makes them feel special and loved.
Thank you for all the messages that you have shared as God has put things on your heart. God has used you to teach me and challenge me. People may come and go from ICC, but know that the seeds that God plants at ICC are the beginnings of a huge harvest that the LORD is reaping. Thank you for how you aren’t concerned about performance of impressing people, but your heart to please and honour God shines through so brightly. God bless you, your family, and ICC.
Thank you.
Sincerely,
Janel MacFarlane
Dear ICC,
Our family attended your 10.30 service on 18th April. We just wanted to say thank you very much, and that we felt very blessed being there.
We were stranded in CPH by the Volcanic Ash and were looking for a church to go to. We found your church on Google, after many searches. We were drawn because we are Malaysians (who reside in UK) and were looking for fellowship of similar culture. And we were blessed by the pastor and his wife. What a treat to hear some Hokkien words, and stories of pastor's upbringing. Being stuck in a foreign country, such tales (and accent) really brought some comfort and reassurance.
Being able to fellowship in a church of Christians, who love the Lord, and behave and speak and pray as we do, even in a foreign country is so wonderful. We felt a kinship, like visiting your uncle's house. The same Christian, who love the same Lord, and who worship the Lord in songs that we know, just like our church. Bless our Father God, His family lives and exists everywhere!
Our boys loved the Sunday School and to this day are still singing the song they learnt "Read your bible pray everyday".
Pastor's wife was very kind even though she was in a hurry, she stopped to speak to a new face, and cared about lodging and clothes. What thoughtfulness, and what a lovely lady!
Keep up your good work, may the Lord continue to bless you.
Many blessings,
Joseph, Sharon, Jeremy and Joel
Glory to God. How much He loves us and is always answering our prayers. I bless the Lord with you. The scriptures are true that say weeping may endure for a night but joy comes with the morning. Talking about the all-night, when I read the mail about it from Ravi yesterday, I just got to pray about ICC and I heard God say He will rain down His Spirit upon ICC and bring a revival. Roberto, please greet the people at the overnight for me.
Blessings
John
Dear Lilian and your family:
I am Grace, hope you and your family still remeber me.....I got so blessed through you and will never forget the years I was with you....you have been always in my mind, all the time...and sometimes, I go to ICC website and checked e-mail to see what happened there....we are still get in touch...isn't it?
I am still here in Toronto...my daughter is going to university next year, my husband just came and decided to stay this time...and he is going to get baptized this coming Easter...I am so grateful to God's amazing work in my family....Since the end of last year, I became the full-time secretary at my home church here, I am the first and only one at my church to get provided directly from our heavenly father, is that amazing Grace?
How is everything going there? I miss you, your famly and church there so much... I often tell the others, that is the church, whenver you come, you will stay.....it seems that my church here is prospering in the same way....
just very simple words here, keep in touch...say hello to Andy's family, Ayumi, Tomomi...if they still rember me...
May God bless you, your family and church there more than before! -- Grace
Pastor Ravi,
Liberation at House of Bread Kenya came through the teachings we held when you visited Kenya. The only way God can bless an individual is through paying of tithe and planting seeds as stipulated in the bible.
We are praying that this will prepare the ICC church to greater miracles that are yet to come.
Rebson
Dear Pastor Ravi,
I hope all is well with you and your family and the entire ICC family. You yourself are an encourager because you have kept even us who are away on the web looking out for what ICC will preach next and sure all is encouraging. I'm fine and God has moved me from one level to another. My organisation has been and still is in a crisis because of the economic downtown but one thing they have decided is that they will not cut staff because they can't afford to recruit again after the slump. Soooo, even under such circumstances, I was elevated to a bigger post, from Country Programme Manager, to Regional Programme Manager - from overseeing and supporting programmes in one country to supporting 10 countries in East, Central and Southern Africa, I now sit in Nairobi, the Africa Regional Office - God is God in all circumstances and even when we are worried about our economic stand, He has already planned for the hard times - I have attached a letter from our father to encourage all of us that HE knows us and HE cares.
Margaret Kasiko
Uganda
Thanks pastor for the enocouragements. I get so blessed because you always keep me updated on spiritural issues. I may not have enough time to reply due to the nature of my duties but please know that am always blessed. My name is Danny Mwale from Zambia. I am a police officer based at the police headquarters in Zambia. I attended the service at ICC once when I was doing my course with Danida in May/June this year (2009).
Pastor keep on with the good work and know that God is touching a lot of lives through you. Imagine how far Zambia is from Denmark. I know that a police officer in Zambia is getting blessed by your messages.
Bye and stay blessed.
Danny Mwale
Hello Pastor Ravi,
I know from the subject of the email ("Goodbye") you can already tell what this is about.
I have been attending ICC for the past four months. I am originally from Kenya and I have been leaving in the Netherland while undertaking my Msc degree in public health. I came to Copenhagen on a four month assignment/internship at the WHO which I complete this week. Yesterday was my last Sunday at church.
I really thank God that I found ICC. I went to the internet when I first arrived here and just typed international churches in Copenhagen and the first church that was on the list was ICC. I went through the website and listened to some of the messages and decided I would visit on my second Sunday and since then I have been coming to ICC.
Since I was only here for a limited stay, I chose to join the gospel choir, having been a praise and worship leader in my previous church. I was really blessed to be a part of the choir and most of all a part of the church.
What I have loved most about the church is how it is run; I mean the administration of the church. I feel this is key because like any other organization, accountability is required in the church. I believe we need to set an example of good stewardship and leadership as Christians and I have really seen that in ICC.
My favourite message was your message on encouragement, very practical indeed. I also remember how you explained how baptism was done in the Jewish religion and what each action symbolized. I am a keen bible student so it was good to have that explanation and relate it to the story of Nicodemus. I really thank you for what a blessing an example you have been in these last four months. I will leave for the Netherlands shortly after my internship then later to my home country Kenya. I
I know I will still be logging into the ICC website just to see what is going on, listen to the sermons.
May the Lord mightily bless you and your family.
Thank you, thank you.
Love,
Wanjiku Nyawira
Dear Ravi,
I just want to share with you what happend to me today.
I am at the moment living seperated from my husband (not because we want to), but due to him getting a job far away from our home. We have finally mannaged to find a house closer by his work place, so that by august the whole famely can start living together again after almost 6 months of seperation.
He comes home only ones or twice a month and it has been really difficult to all of us. I am here alone with the 4 kids (all under the age of 10) and they are not always beeing nice to me.
So due to the stress over the whole situation, with me doing evrything on my own at the same time as I have to coninue my studies (law, major) I have not had time to sit with my self and read the bible.
As I started to pack up some of our things in to boxes, I saw the bible in the book shelf and desided that maybe I should not pack it down just now. That was like 3 week ago and after that it was just lying in the cubbort collecting dust.
Then today I was trying to sleep ,as the smal boy need his nap also, but I felt restless and I felt something was wrong. I tryed to read one of my novels, to hope that it would make me to finally fall asleep, but it rather resulted in me being more restles and getting irritated. So I stood up went in to the kichen, sad by my computer and was thinking maybe to check some mails or something that would make me feel better.
Then this evening around 17.00 I desided that maybe I will bring out the bible and read. Emmidiately I picked it up the restless felling stopped, I sat down, closed the door and I prayd. I went to the internet and started listening to your preaching about encouragement.
I felt happy and I now know where the feeling came from, i needed to encourage my self.
The most wonderfull thing now happened when I was sending an sms to my husband to explain to him, that Jesus is the sim card of our phone, but unless we turn it on we will not connect to the network, he emidiately aswered me that he him self, after not even bringing out his bible of his bag for the last 5 months, he had also had the same feeling, and he had desided to go online also and listen to one of his pastors preaching.
Sometimes it is like I am beeing a slow learner, cause when we where homeless 1½ year ago, and it was almost imposible for us to find an appartment, I finally desided to go to the storrige where we had stored all our property and found my bible, my great grandmothers bible, and a small pocket version of the new testament, (in the last corner in the last box, under all the other things) I did that on Tuesday and the following week tuesday we mooved in to our present apartment.
It was exactly the same that happend when my husband was unlawfully deported due to a mistake, I took my bible and I asked Jesus to prove to me that I was not wrong and that it is not ment for a husband and wife to live in two diffrent continents, after just 3 weeks in africa they gave him a residence permit and he came home.
Thanks for helping me to understand that when noone else encourage me, I can do it my self and Jesus will help.
Stay blessed
Ene
Hallo pastor Ravi,
I am blessed and doing well in kenya. God has been so gracious to me and my family in Kenya that i appreciate his workings.Pastor, God has given you a heart and a vision for Denmark and it is only through prayer and fasting that it can work.Pastor it can be done by the zeal of God and asking the holy spirit to lead us and guide us into his way and rightouesness.
I acknowledge the task God has bestowed upon you and may he give you grace and favor as you continue.
Thank you so much.
Rose Andanje
Dear Pastor Ravi,
I and others Hong Kong guys have all arrived Hong Kong separately. Thank you for taking care of all of us in the past few weeks and providing a wonderful church for us. It is denfinitely a unforgettable experience to be involved in ICC. Thank you very very much. Please keep contact. I hope I will be back to ICC in one day. I trust ICC will become the most powerful international church in Denmark. Please keep contact with us.
Best regards,
Osman
Dear Ravi,
We are fine and doing well. Ruth's pregancy is being monitored by a good doctor here. Somehow we miss Denmark and I miss it very much. And I miss you and the lovely church, ICC. I learnt a lot while I was in ICC. Internet is not very good in my village so once I go to the city I'll see the website to see what is going on. Please remember us in your prayers. May your practical Christianity encourage the believers to be becoming more Christlikeness and unbelievers to have a longing heart to find our sweet Lord.
Thanks and regards,
Morthekai
Dear Ravi,
I begin by saying To God be the Glory as he continues to put songs on my lips to tell others. After succefully passing an interview, i had a job with a one of the biggest engineering firms in the UK. After successfully passing probation, my position was permanently confirmed and my company proceeded to changed my previous visa to work permit, confirming my permanent status.
He will continue to bless HIS children so long we remain faithful to him. I thank God for your life and what he continues to use you to bless us. Please share the testimony to let those who share in the joy of the Lord know how faithful our God continues to bless us when we deligently seek him.
I have missed the congregation so much and will like to visit the church. However, my danish visa has run out and will be grateful if there is a possibility of getting an invitatition letter from you to apply for a danish to enable me visit the dearly missed congregation.
Rgds,
Kwasi
Dear Pastor Ravi,
Thank you for your prayers and support during my stay in Denmark.
It was truly a blessing attending your church and all the wonderful people I met there. Its good to be back home and spend time with my family here.
My Heart is burdened for the Continent of Europe and I'm praying for a fresh downpour of Glory over various parts of Europe. I believe Europe is on the brink of the greatest move of Holy Spirit.
We need to continue to plunder the gates of Hell with fervernt intercession and prayer. I like what you said in one of your sermons. It is important to depend on the source and not the supplier. Its a simple statement but backed with powerful conviction.
I want to encourage you by saying this is a season of ploughing in the land of Denmark for you. You are the chosen vessel of God to plough the ground and prepare and make it fertile. The fresh seeds of Gods word needs to be planted. God has planted you in Denmark to plant his seeds of greatness. The Holy spirit is calling your church to move in the power of his Glory. Expect the unexpected every week. I pray for divine miracles, healings and deliverance to take place. Let the Glory of the Lord manifest in a measure which no eye has seen, no ear has heard and no heart has known. Who knows the Mind of the Lord for ICC? Its time for the demons in Denmark to find the exit door because the King of Glory is about to take centerstage. Let his Glory arise in your life and cover your family in a unprecedented way.
GOD Bless you Pastor
Best Regards,
Cleophas David - Bangalore - India
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