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.