'What's Next' Discipleship and Leadership Workshop

What's Next: A Discipleship Training on Faith, Trust, and Risk

Join us this Sunday, from 10:00 - 12:00 for the 'What's Next' workshop: a discipleship training on faith, trust, and risk with Dr. Gene Selander.

This workshop is intended for anyone looking for encouragement and equipping to help them lead in the home, business, and Christian ministry. All are welcome, but please RSVP with austin@fibc.dk before Friday, May 13.

The workshop will take place on the 2nd floor at Kristuskirken (aka 'the fireplace room').

Email austin@fibc.dk to sign up today!

The Wonderful Cross | The 2016 FIBC Easter Choir Celebration

On March 20, the FIBC choir once again came together to perform a beautiful, powerful series of songs, this time celebrating 'The Wonderful Cross' of Christ for the Easter season.

If you were at the worship service on March 20, then you know how special the choir performance was. But if you've never participated in one of FIBC's choirs, then below are some thoughts from a few of this year's participants that give insight into what an extraordinary experience it is to worship through the choir: 

"[This Easter] was the second time I joined the FIBC choir. Two main things were surprising for me: the rehearsals were not boring and exhaustive at all - we had a lot of fun and shared communion together. Secondly, through participating in the choir, I was able to go beyond the sheet music and worship God in truth, both during the rehearsals and the service itself. It was amazing to sing about Jesus resurrection, and the forgiveness of sins and hope we have through Him." -Bruno, Brazil

"Singing in the choir not only gives the opportunity to express the wonders of God in music, but it also bonds the singers together as a team, in fellowship and love. If you have never tried to sing in the choir, I would strongly recommend it: blessings guaranteed." -Frieda, Indonesia

"There's a gazillion reasons why I love joining the FIBC choir for the Easter and Christmas concerts. But these stand out: (1) It's a great way to fellowship with others from the church and we always help each other through difficult passages, (2) You get to see a different side of Pastor Erik. He is always happy, smiling, he jokes, has an amazing voice and can pitch himself at any voice type effortlessly; it's like watching a professional juggler, and (3) lastly, for this particular Easter, as I sang praises of The Wonderful Cross, it made me realise that no matter how crap life may seem sometimes, I am already victorious through His death and resurrection and when I worship, I dedicate my best back to Christ who gave me all." -Kay, Singapore

Thanks so much to all who participated in this year's Easter choir and who attended the performance on March 20. To learn more about how you can get involved in upcoming FIBC choir events, email worship@fibc.dk today!

Special thanks to Rochelle Coote for the lovely photos posted in this blog post.

FIBC Church Life: Children's Nativity Play

For the past several years, the FIBC pre-school ministry team, pre-school kids and their parents have put on an annual Christmas Nativity Play. Each year, the play features Copenhagen's cutest angels, shortest shepherds, and most unpredictable (and wandering) wisemen! Without question, the children's Nativity play is the most adorable event in FIBC's annual calendar (the photo above says it all). 

This past December, we were lucky enough to have Rochelle Coote (who also helped coordinate the play) capture the Christmas cuteness and chaos with her keen eye and deft camera skills. And even though it's nearly Easter now, we think that these lovely, smile-inducing photos were well worth the wait.

Thanks to all the parents, kiddos, and helpers who helped to make last Christmas' Nativity Play come to life. And thanks to all the loving volunteers who make FIBC's Youth & Family Ministries happen all year long! We are so thankful for the youth and families of our wider FIBC church family.

Learn more about FIBC's Youth and Family ministries here. 

Contact Rochelle about family, engagement, or other photo and portrait services.

FIBC DAY 2015

Well, the string of gorgeous sunshine-filled FIBC Days may have been broken this year, but that didn't do anything to dampen the spirit of this year's event. International potluck foods, meat off the grill, testimonies, and games made for a wonderful and memorable day. As you will see in the photos below, it takes a lot more than temperamental weather to ruin an FIBC event. 

Thanks to all who participated in FIBC Day, can't wait for next year!

A great big thank you to Rochelle Coote for the extraordinary photos. 

FIBC SUMMER BAZAAR

On Saturday, August 22 FIBC organized our first ever Church Bazaar in the courtyard of Kristuskirken. By all accounts, the Bazaar was a great success - a day full of sunshine, fellowship, face painting, delicious food, and bargains, bargains, bargains.

Over the past few months, as the event took shape, different people in the church stepped forward as volunteers to manage tables selling gently used items, make delicious food to sell, and run fun activities as well as do the ever important set up and break down. Many others who could not attend donated items to sell and lifted up prayers for a successful event... and no rain!

The loppemarked (Danish for 'flea market') side was organized into departments featuring adult clothing, children's clothing, books, toys, music, electronics, household goods/miscellaneous. The food table overflowed with asian noodles, egg rolls, cookies, carrot cakes, pinwheel rolls, pizza rolls, pakoras, brittle, soda, juice, coffee, and tea. Cheery jazz music wafted through the air as faces were painted, cupcakes were decorated, temporary tattoos were applied, golf putts found their hole, and a haircut was given.

In looking back at our first church bazaar, we can count it as a success in many ways. First of all, all who participated had a great time. Secondly, we raised an impressive 15,000 kroner while reaching out to the community to let them know that we are a vibrant congregation made up of people who both love the Lord and each other. We also built relationships among ourselves by working side by side enjoying a fun day of fellowship in perfect weather. Of course, there were some things that worked better than others, and we will try to learn from those observations when we hold the next bazaar. 

Thank you to everyone who helped make the day special - each contribution was a blessing. If you have ideas on how to make the next Bazaar even better, or if you would like to help organize the next event, please talk to Cyndi at church or email council@fibc.dk.

Text Contributed by Cyndi.