Tribute to my twin brothers Andreas and Tomas

Posted by Johan under daily

Tomas wishing he had his wife with him in Budapest.

Exactly 25 years ago there was a battle going on. Two guys, ehm, my brothers, were to be born, and later to be named Andreas and Tomas. The battle though, was about who would be allowed to get out first thus older. And they couldn’t decide, so they took three rounds of rock-papper-scissor - the battle was intense, but eventually Tomas won. So they lined up accordingle, Tomas to get born first. What the guys couldn’t really know, still being in mums stomach, was that they would be born through Caesarean section (cut up the stomach and taken out that way) - AND - so the first one that way was… - Andreas! And Tomas… 1 minute younger became our youngest littl’ fella. Well - at least this is how the story goes according to Tomas.

Anyway - these guys have their 25th birthday today - hurray hurray hurray!

Andreas - the blond guy, is anything but “blond”. He graduated from the Baltic Methodist Theological Seminary in June and is now pastoring the methodist church in Ekenäs, Finland. (That’s our home town btw.) He debuted as an author with the book “Wandering in the desert when others rest by the oasis” a great book about how to deal with life when things don’t quite go your way. Andreas has a great sense of humor and usually hatches new jokes for breakfast. He’s a great man of God, with deep insights in the Word and a strong passion to build the Kingdom of God.

Tomas is the wild one with the dark hair. Having lived many years in Vasa he recently moved to Helsinki with his wife Anna-Sara to work as youth pastor in the Filadelfia Church . He’s been leading the Pentecostal youth organisation Team Action for a number of years and has a huge passion for people and the Gospel. Last couple of years he’s been carrying out evangelistic teams to cities around Europe.

Tomas and Andreas are the most fun and great guys ever to chill with - dispite a rough upbringing (at times) by their older brothers. Won’t go there though.

I’m greatly privileged to have such wonderful brothers- you guys rock! And… there is a third brother, as cool as these two fellas - Stefan. He even has a blog: www.stefanforsback.com .

Like to berries, don’t you think?