Karasjok!

We left to Karasjok on saturday morning.Bjartur overslept a LITTLE bit but we got to kick off pretty early :) we had an amazing drive to Karasjok : sun,warmth,blue sky,no hurry and good talks. In Karasjok we drove straight to the Pentacostal church which was organizing and hosting the youth conferense. There was a team from Oslo Filadelfia Bible school so they were doing many things there. 7 youth got saved during the weekend, 1 baptism and other good things. We had Borgen stand, got chanse to talk about DTS/MA in sundaymeeting and got some good contacts and people interested doing MA and DTS. Just before leaving we visited an evangelistic center where many ex-alcoholic/drug addicts live after becoming christians. That was the BEST part of the trip : I was so encouraged after all talks with those guys and their generosity was something. Bjartur and I were so full after all the food,GOOD food,that you can not imagine.

We left Karasjok on Sunday evening. We had quite an exciting ride back to Borgen :) No gas stations open, too many reindeer on the road and it was THIS close that we hit one. God send angles to protect us - for sure. My hands were shaking and I didn't know if I should laugh or cry after I realized we didn't hit the reindeer. Good driving Bjartur and good angels God. Anyways we made it all the way to Borgen late but safe and our trip was great.I'm so happy we went there. Lots of fun.

Today I slept in a bit and then Bjartur and I started to wash Mercedes.That was job.It took like 4 hours for 2 people to wash one car!It was fun though. Now I've been packing and cleaning and getting ready to move again! I believe it's gonna be good to be down at Turid's place. Yes,now I will go and get something to eat.Getting hungry here.

Promotiong - promoting!

NLF is over now.Finally.It was a week here ar Borgen where all the leaders,the main leaders,of YWAM come together for one week to seek God,discuss and decide about important things.It was quite fun to be there,to listen and hear people from different bases and leaders.And to be there and part of important decsisions.It gave me a bigger picture of YWAM Norway. I couldn't say too much on the conversations cause sometimes I didn't have any clue what they were talking about - LOTS of new things.But fun!And good to talk with others working with DTS's in Norway.

so now.. the main thing is to promote.I will go to Karasjok early tomorrow with Bjartur to join a youthconferense (80 youth from the North) and we have some time to tell about DTS,MA and Borgen generally.I'm happy we got the promotion powerpoint done!After this event I will join the team and go to Hånningsvog for 4 days.Then it's Reboot-touring and my main thing there is to promote and have a stand + projector with powerpoint running. and of course translating in Finland. there are so many cool things happening and I'm getting all excited! I sent one more application form today to one young man.. I pray we will get lots of YES answers!!

It's nice here now - sunshine and a springfeeling.Helen is coming soon!!I'm moving down to Turid's place on monday. Korean DTS is delayed 1 month because of visas.They have 5 students but none of them has visa yet - it takes almost 2 months for them to get it. Oh yea Lenneke -thank you for your card + Kit Kat!It really made my day. I gotta go to Finland and buy some more Kit Kat,Norway doesn't know such a thing as Kit Kat. Okey I think I gotta go now,pack,do some laundry and call Annika!I miss her.I got some new music today so I'm very happy : new Toby Mac and new Chris Tomlin. New worshipsongs - hallelujah! OH by the way.. I believe we will get some new staff here for next year.. :D I have FAITH.

Now I will go.Bless you!

GOOD MORNING WORLD.

I was bored - I ended up here. I had such a good time yesterday.. first I got to sleep in,relax in the morning time and 4pm Turid,Olga and I drove up to Tromso!We did some shopping (or more looking,trying,trying again - ended up bying nothing) and went to cinema. We watched ''Music and lyrics'' and I enjoyed so much. Man I laughed a lot. We got to sit in the first row - first class people to the first row ay?

It was good to just be in the city.and Burger King.We picked up one guy from the airport - he is gonna be part of the YWAM Norway leadershipweek. We got back home safely. Turid is quite cool, I like her. :)

Today we went to Clarkes to celebrate Thomas! It is his 1st birthday today! Now,actually RIGHT NOW,I should go to livingroom and help prepare for the sundayschool. I will play some songs. OH yea and the leadershipweek is starting tomorrow.. I will be in the worshipband and also partcipate the week. Exciting. It's going pretty nice here,I'm preparing to move again! Helen is coming soon and I will be moving down to Turid's house! Oukkidoukki I gotta go now and get some things done. I really don't know if anyone is even reading this but I write anyways :D Bless you.

I'M SORRY,oh so sorry.

Back in this blogging thing.

I was pushed and pressed especially by one kiwi girl who doesn't know how to use myspace.. to update my blog - so here we are! (Bex I still like you :) it's good that someone pushed me to do this.) so I'm sorry for not updating.

So lots has happened since Christmas I can say.We are back from our outreach (Norway/Russia) and I'm still in Norway, Borgen. It's pretty quiet here at the base now : the students left, some staff left and that made a big hole. I'm still enjoying my time here, it has been relaxed but also I've got some work done.I am very much looking forward our promotion tour (happening in the end of May) when we (me+some of the youthteam) go to Finland to promote DTS and Borgen.And then I wil stay home for 5 weeks.Wow!

I was outside yesterday the whole day with Clarke's and Turid and some Korean staff. It's beautiful up here. Yesyes yee - this is it. I think I will start updating a bit more regularly from now on.. right?? Enjoyable Easter.

Merry Christmas from Finland!

On my way home.


Beautiful,beautiful Finland.


Christmaseve.


Star.


These are the special times.

DTS 06/07

Some pictures from this fall coming up.. it´s crazy how time is just flying. It´s december already! This week was amazing.. we had a teacher coming from Bergen/Western Norway and he really challenged me during the week like others also. Busy time - outreach is getting closer but so is christmasholiday! I´m travelling home at 16th together with Annika and it´s so soon.. we have our last week of teaching left, outreach prep and christmasparty. Wow. I´m so excited to go home! But some pics now.. here we go. Enjoyyy!

Sweden!

Leading worship.


Lenneke enjoying her time!


Sweden-Kiruna-Livskallan church.


Tony Price preaching.


Pizzaparty!

Partypictures

We had Bea's birthdayparty last saturday, Bea is part of our DTS staff, an amazing lady! And wow - what a party we had.. surprises and everything. So here we go, some partypictures, take a look and learn how to party!


Bea and some guests.


Leivur and Markus - partying it up!


Take a look at these girls! :)




Cherob, Annika and Bex.

Pictures coming!

I will add some pictures,also old ones, just to make it able for you guys to see them. New ones will come later, I promise you :) I just found out yesterday how to add these pictures so just wait :) We just had a birthdayparty and I gotta go to bed soon, it's getting late.


Arctic Extreme 2006.


Home sweet home.


My sister, her daugher and I. On our way to a wedding.


Hanna and Barbara. YWAM worker's gathering august 2006.


Annika and I at Geoff's birthdayparty.

Finnish taking over!

In the picture : having a party(a VERY short one) at the last night finnish DTD was here!

The finnish DTS arrived yesterday!Oh man it's so good!Our DTS just got back from Tromsø on friday and it was great to come back home and relax for awhile.. on saturday we had Sigurd's birthdayparty! Cakes, ice cream, movies, COFFEE.. that kinda stuff :)

It's good to have the other DTS here. I have two girls staying at my room and at least I enjoy it! We are gonna have teaching together this week about ''the pain of the heart''. Great teaching, I'm telling you.. after this week it's only couple of weeks left! I can't believe it, weeks just pass by. I will go home for christmasholiday on 16th of December and celebrate my birthday on 18th. Annika will arrive Finland on 27th and we will join the YWAM youthconference called ''The Highway'' (www.thehighwaynordic.net) A GREAT CONFERENCE. It's gonna be a blast.. the finnish DTS is also joining the conference. And after that Annika and I have planned to spend couple of days at my summerplace and just relax before taking off for the outreach!

I'm so so excited. I just can't believe God has given me so much and so many opportunities and this year has been hard but SO GOOD. I can't wait to see what God has for me in the future! Right now I feel I should stay here and staff for another year but there are so many opportunities.. but Borgen is my home and I feel God telling me to stay. But we will see. I just take day by day.

Oh yea I promised some pictures.. :) don't worry, they will come. Someday :) I have my day off today so I'm enjoying it with all my heart. But now I gotta go and print some stuff for Jung Im. Let me hear from you people!

Visiting Funland.

Like I said earlier, I just came back from Finland yesterday. The Borgen youthteam wanted to borrow me from DTS for a one week so I could join them and go to Finland. The youthteam organizes different kind of activities for kids and youth and this time they organized an event called ''sport-x'' in Finland. They have done it earlier in Norway for couple of times but now they felt God giving them opportunites to reach young people in Finland. They asked me to join them, to lead a musicworkshop and do translations and so on. I was SO excited! I love my country and my people and I wanna see them receiving Jesus in their lives!So I took the challenge and jumped into Toyota and here we went..

Muonio was our destination. We were gonna do sport-x at schooltime on wednesday, have a devotion at high school on thursday and a youthmeeting in the evening, and go to the junior high on friday morning to have a devotion. Sport X turned out to be great! I led the musicworkshop from 9-15 with many awesome young and talented people while others were leading dance/drama, creative and indoorhockeyworkshops. We presented the Gospel and invited them to youthmeeting. Couple of my ''bandmembers'' wanted to join me and play worship in the youthmeeting! I was so happy for it! I don't think they even knew what the word ''worship'' meant but ohhh, their hearts were open! 14 people showed up to the youthmeeting we had the night before leaving. It was powerful, I believe God really spoke to some of them. Everyone of us (team) shared what Jesus means to us and we have some funny things and dramas, we had worship and so on. There were couple of young peole that God really put in my heart. I will keep on praying for them and I hope to see them again and share more what God has done in my life. God loves those kids SO MUCH!

It was VERY sad to leave Muonio. Just before we left, Timo (our contactperson), asked us if we wanted to be interviewed at the radiostation. We said yes! Suddenly they wanted me to sing and play one song which I played(and gave a short testimony) in the same morning when we had a devotion at junior high. Wow.. so I sang and played and they recorded it :) it was great. After that it was time to leave and say goodbyes. Thety were very willing to have the team back and I'm sure God will give them more opportunities to work together.But the week in Muonio was amazing for me.. opened my eyes more and more, to see the love that God has for young people and the fact that He can use also me to reach to them!! I was very happy to help the team and serve God through translating, leading workshop, leading worship, giving testimonies, singing and playing for Him.

Now we are back at Borgen and tomorrow we are gonna go to Tromsø. Packing, unpacking and packing again :) But I love it. God is so good! After one week in Tromsø the finnish DTS is gonna come up here and spend one week with us. Exciting! Now I gotta go and do some laundry.

God I love you. I love you more than anything. I'm so thankful for you, for everything you have done during this week. For everything You have done in my life. I wanna learn to love You even more.

A brand new blog!

hello people. some people put some preassure on me that I have to create an english blog so here we come now. I try to keep this page updated as often as possible.right now we are pretty busy here at Borgen, I just came from Finland yesterday and tomorrow we are gonna take off and go to Tromsø for one week. lots of things going on but I will write some more what happened in Finland + pics.. soon.