Wednesday 10th of March 2010

Church Calendar

14.03.2010 09:30 - 11:00
9.30am Celebration
14.03.2010 11:30 - 13:00
11.30am Celebration
16.03.2010 19:30 - 21:30
Directors' Meeting
19.03.2010
'LOVE BICESTER' - Life Songs Youth Event
19.03.2010
'LOVE BICESTER' - Comedy Evening with Jimmy Cricket

Home Tommie
Tommie

 

Short bio on Tommie and Gunilla Naumann


Tommie & Gunilla are happy parents of four children and equally happy grandparents of seven. As they started out their Christian journey in 1972 they very soon found themselves involved in leadership running a ministry reaching out to the down and out. 

Later on they were in a team that pioneered a Christian Community in the south of Sweden. This Community became influential in all of Scandinavia. One of the many outreaches and ministries of this Community was work behind the Iron Curtain, something that Tommie got involved in. 

As a result of this work Tommie & Gunilla moved to Vienna to be strategically situated for the Eastern European work. Living in Vienna Tommie became part of the leadership of a Catholic Charismatic Community; it was also during this time that Tommie established a lot of contacts in former Yugoslavia, which later on led to the moving to Skopje, Macedonia. Moving back to Sweden from Vienna they became pastors of a Church in Sweden. 

Serving for six years as pastors in Sweden they moved to Skopje and have planted a Church Movement in this nation.  Christian Center Macedonia is today led by local leaders that Tommie has raised up. Tommie still oversees the work in Macedonia and is involved in leadership development and the movements Church planting work. 

Presently Tommie & Gunilla are presently living in Thessaloniki, Greece where they have planted a Church that is growing. In addition to this Tommie works in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon with setting up Bible schools and assisting in Church planting.
Newsletter!
Dear Highway Friends

As we visited England in November Gunilla and I we were hosted by you in such a generous, thank you millions for that. As a Church you are such an inspiration, do think that you are doing such a great work over there, being an influence to the people around you and in society. My prayer for you is to continue to stand firm, draw strength from the Lord and do not get weary. Keep on loving on one another and on your neighbors.
Down here in Greece something is definitely cooking. One of the young women in our Church just told me that this season seem to like the time in the chronicles of Narnia. You know after the long winter there came the time when the snow started to melt foreboding the coming of Aslan. No one had seen him yet but the signs of him coming were visible. In our cells the atmosphere of a sense of belonging is growing, it is a real kick to partake. People are being touched by God in a most visible way. The same thing on our Sunday services. The meetings are not much different from before it is just an atmosphere change and it is visible. The last couple of weeks five people have come to the Lord, does not sound much but for all of this is a biggie. We are continuing to work hard with Evangelism targeting young people in the city and some results are showing but we have not yet seen a real breakthrough, so please help us in praying for this.
Otherwise love you a lot and be sure we are with you in prayer.
Greetings Tommie

Greece

Prayer

On Saturday the thirtieth of January we launched a week of prayer around the clock. We did this in co-operation with two other Churches. Meaning here in Thessaloniki we took on praying from Saturday afternoon 6.00 pm until Tuesday morning 6.00 am after this the Church in Veles carried on and later the Church in Skopje will finish the week. As we kicked off a group from Skopje and Veles came down to help kick start the event. We spent a whole night together in prayer and did various things. The room was set up after the model of the 24-7 organization prayer rooms with various stations in it. One corner was designed as a place of intimacy another was for praying for the world then we had a wailing wall and a place for worship and another for repentance and taking communion there was a lot of emphasis on creativity and as a result the walls were eventually filled with drawings, prophetic, inspirational for worship and lots of notes with prayer requests. The first hours was filled with intense worship first from our local worship team. This evening we had a guest on our team, his name is Likurgos, you may well pray for him. He was for the first time in his life in a Protestant Church and his appearance was nothing but an answer to prayer. For a long time now we have asked the Lord to give us someone that plays the Greek national instrument Bozouki. An instrument banned by Greek Protestant Churches as this instrument is used in bars with a bad reputation. Bringing it in on the Christian stage is similar to when rock music hit Churches in the late sixties. William Booth the founder of the Salvation Army said “Why should the devil have all the good music.” So let me say why should the devil monopolize good music instruments. Bozouki makes a beautiful sound and if we want to connect with the people out there then lets use it.  Alek from Skopje continued and led us in his very alternative worship. He has studied Orthodox liturgy and developed his own style and we could feel the manifest presence of God in the place. Later on in the night we split up and some stayed in the prayer room while others went out on the streets prayer walking. As we did this Kiko from Skopje walked up to a group of young people and started chatting with them. 



Orama

Is the name of a coffee bar we have adopted. The idea was inspired after having read Organic Church by Neil Cole. The bar is the old hang out place of Argiris on our leadership team. His old friends visit this bar almost every night and we are a group from our Church going there once a week. I was thinking to myself as I drove home from the place late one night that I am really starting to become Greek. Apart from Argiris we are getting more and more befriended with the people there. The fact is that we are on a mission in this bar  doesn’t make it just a work it is really enjoyable to be together with these people. We play card games, backgammon and having the traditional frappe coffee or beer, chat and laugh a lot. Personally I do think that one of the secrets of being successful in evangelism is finding common ground to enjoy life together with your not yet Christian friends. Our objective is to be able to start an Alpha course in the bar but so far the result has been that some from the crowd that hangs out there have visited one of our cell groups. During the time in the cell group one of the guys broke down in tears and the others had their eyes really wet.  God was obviously touching them doing a work in their life. This week as I had my birthday people in the bar that I don’t even know came up to me and said Happy Birthday Tommie. Please pray for us as we continue this kind of Evangelism.

Cell Groups

We have a number of people that are definitely a part of our Church that only visits our cell groups, for us this is fine. One of them a middle aged couple have for some time started to come to cell I am personally attending. The husband has never been in a protestant Church and this all new to him. As the cell is very interactive he has started to read the Bible and a couple of weeks ago to his wife’s astonishment he prayed out loud for the first time in his life. A miracle is taking place right in front of our eyes as this man is getting transformed by the power of God.

Baptism

We have a lot of clear blue sky and sunshine in this nation, this does not mean however that winters are warm. This season is definitely to cold for baptism in the sea and as we do no have a baptismal pool in our facilities we conducted this one in the bathroom at Costa and Eva’s house. Eleni that just has given her life to Jesus wanted to get baptized. As we prayed for her and celebrated the Lords supper after her baptism she was so touched by God. Her whole face was completely wet from tears.


This is yana with eleni the woman we baptized

Middle East

Please pray for the conference we are hosting just outside Beirut this coming April. We still need finances for the conference, pray as well for the friends down there preparing for it.
 


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