okey.. I promised myself to give this blogging thing ONE MORE try because it's such a nice way to post new pictures and write what is going on up here and in my life. so as we started a new DTS again it was just the perfect time to start updating this page again!We have just finished our 2nd week of this 2007/2008 DTS! We are 5 staff (Lenneke/Holland, Bex/New Zealand, Bea/USA+Germany, Annika/Faroe Islands and me) and 6 students! I will post some pictures so you can see their beautiful faces! :) First week of this DTS we had orientation, lots of information, going through YWAM values and many practical things. We also did a trip called "Arctic Adventure" in the mountains and it was quite fun, wet and rainy though. This week we had teaching about "The Word of God" by our base leader Leif Braathen and it has been such a good week! This weekend we are off and getting ready to go to Tromso next week! We have a very interesting week ahead of us..
Next week we will have teaching about "Evangelism" by Vince Esterman from Paris. We will be staying at local Baptist Church, also doing some local outreaches and leading come children clubs. The teaching will be at the University of Tromso, we will be doing evangelism right after class in the University!! I am so excited about this week. There are some exciting things happening in Tromso and we get to be part of it and I bet it's gonna be some fun!
Annika and I are really enjoying living in our apartment. Now we both have our own rooms : Annika staying in living room and me in the bed room. It was quite cozy to live both in the tiny bedroom but we thought to give a try to live separately :) But anyways. The fall is coming to the North and the colors are just STUNNING.. as you can see from the photos. or actually you should come and see it yourself, the pictures can not tell you the whole truth! Last night we were walking home from staff meeting and God blessed us with some incredible Northern Lights, I have never seen them dancing like that with many colors and they were huge! I am telling you that God is blessing is with His amazing creation!! Sometimes I can only praise and worship Him for all the colors and beauty we have up here.It is so beautiful. I would not change this to anything else!
I am really enjoying living here and being with these people. And I am also starting to enjoy playing my violin again and I really want to start using it for God.I have a desire to grow deeper in worship this year. I pray God would give me bigger and bigger heart for this school and for all the students, they are such a great bunch of people! God has been faithful, so faithful. Sometimes I feel like He is blessing me so much, more than I deserve. But I know His love for me is something so big. And I pray my love for Him would grow and grow every single day. He IS my everything.
This is the new DTS 2007/2008
From the left up: MILKA (fin), LENE (no),
KATYA (rus), HILLA (fin), LENNEKE (nl),
JAKOB (greenland),HANNA (fin), HANNE (no),
From the left down : BEA (us), ANNIKA (faroe is),
REBECCA (nz)
One beautiful drive to Tromso
Beautiful colors
Last night we heard some terrible news..
one water pipe at the kitchen basement
had broken down so we had to turn off
all the water in this building until
the pipe got fixed.this meant
we could not prepare fish and potatoes
for dinner as we planned. so our dinner
ended up looking something like
this : pan cakes, ice cream, whipped
cream, bananas, chocolate, fruit, jam,
caramel topping and so on. Life at Borgen
is not that bad, huh? ;)
