One more busy week :)

This week was quite busy with many little extra-things. The weekend has been great and I got to sleep in and also get some things done. I finished the 2nd book we need to read for the Basic Leadership Skills - school and now it's only a report to write! Everyone of us has been quite tired after the super duper week in Rovaniemi and it took some time to recover from that :) We have been talking about the Rovaniemi people the whole week so I guess they made quite a good impression :D

Now we are getting ready for the coming week. Last week we had teaching about "Identity in Christ" which was right on the spot and such a good teaching. The coming week is about "Spiritual warfare". On Friday we will pack our cars and drive to Narvik for the weekend. Basically the whole base is going there and we will be part of a conference organized by different churches in Narvik. The DTS will be responsible for some children meetings and youth meetings so we are gonna be busy preparing dance and drama and some other things this week! Me and Lenneke will be leading this weekend, while Annika is down south in Oslo in the YWAM Norway leadership week. And it is only couple of weeks and the Finns are coming up here!! We are so happy to get them here and hope to have some REAL FUN together and bless them!

I will add some photos now, I do not have too many photos from last weeks but I will get more later. Now I think I will try to start writing my book report and then go to bed. Have a blast week friend where ever you are!


Me and my niece Anna
in Rovaniemi,Finland.


Katri and Lenneke.


..And we had SO much fun!


Tinni and Antti.. no words
to describe. They are GREAT :)

WHAT A WEEK!

FINLAND - ROVANIEMI, Palojarvi

We took off on Sunday morning and had an interesting drive down to Finland. Some lamps broke in our vans so we spent around 1 hour in a local Statoil, fixing the cars. We had a fun and safe drive to Rovaniemi and I enjoyed been able to understand EVERYTHING it said in the road signs!!

Rovaniemi was GREAT. We stayed in a camping center called Palojarvi with bunch of other YWAM'ers and this week was just so good. Dan Baumann from California was our teacher for this week, teaching about "The passion for Jesus" and really challenged us. This teaching was right on the spot for me - the timing could not have been better. Wow.. God is just so faithful and always right on the spot. The Finnish DTS has 9 students and 8 staff - what an awesome bunch of people!! I loved being there from the first night. And all the way starting from the first staff meeting we had on Sunday evening when we arrived, I could see God's hand upon both schools and how He was rejoicing over us.

We also got a chance to visit a local youth club one afternoon and do some other ministry things. I visited my sister one day and had some time in town. This weekend we were also part of a youth camp organized by YWAM at the same base. It was lots of fun and good times together and this morning we said goodbyes and drove back to Norway. What a LONG drive! God really protected us on the road and helped us in so many ways. Now we are happy but tired and back home with many bags of Finnish bread :) I am so happy. So so so happy. I got to know so many new people and once again God showed me more of His goodness and character. What a mighty God we serve. Tomorrow we are starting a new week, Helen Wilson is going to teach about "Identity in Christ". We also need to get more into outreach planning and I know it will be a busy week.. I will add some pictures later! OH yea we are leading base worship tomorrow so I guess I should start looking some songs..

well, THANK YOU ROVANIEMI people and most of all.. thank you God!
ONLY 3 WEEKS UNTIL THEY COME HERE!!

Be blessed.

a weekend

It's weekend again!! It has been such a long week with tons of things to do and prepare and plan and it feels so good to realize it is Friday again. Yesterday Annika and I were invited to Hanne Eliasen's home in the evening, just to relax and it was so good. Hanne is such a blessing for us. Today we did not have teaching at all, we had some prayer time together as a group and did some other things. In the evening we had a fun party -- now I am so tired. Tomorrow morning we will drive down to Turid's house for brunch. It is Yang Hee's good bye party at the same time.. Yang Hee is leaving to Spain with her BOYFRIEND DAVID!! Just a couple of days ago they told us they have decided to start a relationship! It is actually happening.. some people ARE DATING in Borgen - what a miracle! We are all shocked but happy for them! I will miss Yang Hee though. Tomorrow we are also going to pack and get ready to take off to ROVANIEMI! I am just so extremely happy we are going down there for a week. Well anyways now I think I need to get some sleep so good night and have a great weekend.Bless.





This picture was taken on Thursday morning.
It is amazing how much snow we already have!


The view from my window.


We had a little party on Friday night,
some games and dressing up of
course :)


Jakob and Lene.


Lenneke, Bex, me and Annika. (and Annika
asked me to add that she is NOT pregnant
for real, just to make it clear :D)


Lene, Jakob, Katya, Milka the Superman and
Hilla.

FIRST SNOW!!

It came this morning. Scary.
Cold. Winter is coming
AGAIN.



We got our first snow this morning..
it was snowing the whole day.



Milka, one of our Finnish students.



The classroom and our teacher for
this week : Terje Konradsen



And here is our new kitchen boss..
Sigurd!! He was a student last year,
now the Borgen kitchen manager.
Wow!



This picture is from our
dining hall during the dinner.



People hanging out after class.



The door signs.



And this is MY ROOM in our
apartement.. cosy cosy!



And my bed.. we still don't have
real beds but this is good :)

I am free.

Through You the blind will see 
Through You the mute will sing 
Through You the dead will rise 
Through You all hearts will praise 
Through You the darkness flees 
Through You my heart screams, I am free! 

I am free to run 
(I am free to run) 
I am free to dance 
(I am free to dance) 
I am free to live for you 
(I am free to live for you) 
I am free 
(I am free)


His mercy and forgiveness is new every morning.
Also for me. I can not understand His goodness towards me.
I only want to praise Him
and give Him all the thanks and glory - He deserves all that and much more.
He set me free! He paid a price for me.
Just to have me.
His blood paid everything so that I can live free.
What a God we serve.

I am nothing without you Jesus. Nothing.

it's October now!

time goes by so fast. too fast sometimes.
last week we spent in Tromso with the whole DTS + youth team from Borgen. it was such a good week : challenging teaching, evangelism, youth/kids/Sunday meetings.. and milk shakes. I enjoyed to be in town. It is such a blessing we can spend some time of the DTS in town and see some people and go out and reach out. We are also super blessed to have the Baptist Church as our "home" in Tromso and they are so helpful and blessing us richly. 5 young men got saved during this week! We had an Australian teacher teaching us, doing evangelism and having seminars at the University of Tromso. What a GREAT week!

now we are back home. right now I am sitting in my bed in my own room and having a little break before going back to Borgen for dinner and evening teaching. This week Hanne Eliasen is teaching the DTS about "prayer and intercession". I wasn't able to be in class today because of the leadership school that I am part of but I heard from the students that it has been very inspiring teaching. we have also started to plan and prepare more for our outreach to Mali now!! Checking tickets, vaccinations and I have started to fill visa - applications. We will get visas through Germany. I pray this visa - applying project will be a bit more easier than last year's.. :)

I am so happy to go to Finland soon for 1 week. I can meet my family and friends again, speak Finnish when I go to stores and most of all.. get some Finnish bread. Ohhh. By the way, Andrei and Mari + their children, are here at Borgen now for 1 week and it is good to have them around!

Now I think I need to go. Tomorrow is my "Morning OFF" day and I am so thankful for that :) I can not wait to have gym tomorrow evening, Annika has prepared some cool things for those hours and after that we are having Borgen staff meeting. Next weekend we are off. And Annika's sister is coming all the way from Faroe Islands to Borgen and it's gonna be great to finally meet her!

Have a super duper weekend everyone!