Not much will change in their weekly church activities. Just as before, services are every Sunday at 6pm. Just as before, the prayer meetings are on Wednesday nights. Just as before, the mission is to reach the local community with God's Word and lead people to a living relationship to Jesus Christ. But unlike before, these activities will now be done under a name which officially embraces the ministry's ties to the Calvary Chapel family in Europe.
"For several years we have been blessed to keep in close contact with the international Calvary Chapel movement, especially with some of the churches in Germany. Some members of our fellowship have studied at CC Bible College in Siegen, and we've been blessed to attend several CC ministry conferences over the years. We are very happy to have a connection with so many wonderful Christians who are serving our God and Savior Jesus Christ through various ministries in Calvary Chapel," says Helmut Fuchs, who leads the church ministry in Karlsborg.
"When we first started our fellowship in Karlsborg, we deliberately refrained from calling it a Calvary Chapel church - mainly due to my fear of ending up serving a denomination or a certain cause rather than God. My memories of such an experience were still much too fresh in the back of my mind at that time. But eventually God healed these wounds of mine, and now we are delighted to serve God within the vision and mission of Calvary Chapel - with a strong focus on the teaching of His Word. Since we are a small church fellowship, our ministry is very up-close-and-personal. May God use us as a tool to build His congregation," says Helmut Fuchs, who moved to Sweden from Germany with his family in 2003.
You can read more about the ministry of Calvary Chapel Karlsborg at their new church website: http://www.calvarychapelkarlsborg.se/ (the website is in Swedish).
