I am (almost) ready to go home

Time is running fast! 

Ok, the thing is that tomorrow I'm finally going to fly back to Finland to visit my family! I'm super excited! 

My plans are to stay the first week with YWAM Finland in Ruurikkala supporting the counseling ministry. The rest of the time I want to visit various congregations or events and share a bit about missions, art or what ever the need is. So if you want me to visit your congregation or small group, just let me know!

Other plans are to raise more supporters for me and for the art ministry in Buenos Aires. And well, of course to spend the real white Christmas at home with my beloved family that I haven't seen for almost a year and a half.

And well, right after the new year I'm already coming back to Argentina.

So I should be preparing myself to leave, but to be honest there're still other stuff to be done! Tonight I'm playing with the two bands of our ministry, with Jeremy Black and Pujahca. And every night I'm helping the girls from our ministry to make costumes to raise finances for our outreach in February. 

I'm a bit frustrated because I couldn't renew my residence yet, but well, I'll do it after coming back. God is super faithful and I have seen Him totally coming through once again in many areas. Just love my Daddy. 

Thank you a lot, all friends, supporters, family and all you readers!

Making costumes...

rehearsal with Jeremy Black

A sign we made for a event against
 child sex abuse and violence

A NIKO camp. Awesome experience!

black (family) news

Hey people!

Some friends just uploaded a video from last year. It's a song by Jeremy Black. As you can see I'm playing the keys on the back and making the hooky (irritating) trumpet sounds. I want to post this just to let you hear how is the music we do with Jeremy.

Actually there are much more stuff in SoundCloud. Forexample this song we recorded in the studio:

Just listen carefully and you'll hear the keyboard effect on the background. That's me ;)

Oh btw, I'm not sure if I mentioned yet... But my small beautifull M-AUDIO keyboard is working once again! Yeah, the one that got damaged in the flood last year! Actually I just needed to buy a new cable and now it seems to work perfectly! Praise God!

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P.S. please be praying for our Art Internship. We are really challenged with finances! Even though I manage my finances separately from the Internship I'm actually in the very situation. Thank you!

¡MUSIC MUSIC MUSIC!

(Written on 25th of September. Now I'm able to use the Internet only on the weekends so I'll be writing posts during the week and posting them on the weekends)

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RESIDENCE

At first I just want to thank everyone who has been praying for my residence! When I went to get this one missing document I heard that it takes 20 days to receive it... So everything delayed a bit. Anyway I had my turn to the migrations so I went to ask if I had everything else. They said yeah, so now I have my next turn on 9th of October. I hope and pray that I have everything I need and the process would be finally over... Please be praying with me!

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TWO GIGS - ONE DAY

The last week was full of music. We practiced with the guys during the week. Many of the songs I had already played before but there were also many new ones I needed to learn.

Friday the 21st was a day of spring and students here in Argentina. It was a free day so most of the people got out to enjoy the sunny day. As missionaries we need to go where the people are. So we played in two evangelic events on that Friday. 

Early in the morning we packed our instruments and a stage which we have at the base. Few guys went with the van to the downtown and rest of us took a bus (ok, 3 buses.) In the downtown we set the stage and then we needed to hurry up to take a bus to the other side of the downtown to play in one event. 

This event was held by a church I go often. They have a really strong artistic movement and I love to work with these guys. 

We started the event playing with Jeremy Black Musta. Then we continued with the band Pujahca in which I have played from the beginning of this year.

As soon as we finished we needed to come back to the place we set the stage in the morning. Jeremy didn't play there but with Pujahca we played a bit more.

This is the stage we set up in the morning.
There were several Christian bands playing.

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ONE GIG - ONE NIGHT

So it was a full day as a musician but it was to be continued the following day. As the Black Family of Jeremy Black we were invited to play in this restaurant/bar held by one church. Over there we played a bit longer.

Before playing...

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BLACK FAMILY WENT TO THE STUDIO

Oh, and I have forgotten to tell you folks that we also spent some time in studio with Jeremy & Black Family. We were recording 5 songs and they came up really well! They still lack mastering but anyway, listen to this one:

I'm playing the synthesizer in this one!

From the studio!

Sometimes things and schedules get a bit complicated and days are long but I really enjoy the fact that I can serve God and people with this gift of music. I just want to encourage all of you to put your talents to the hands of God and not limit yourselves!