Blogs from Norway, Europe - page 234

We've been getting trained on booking our schedule because some of the team will help to book the concert schedule for the next year. Our tenative schedule will include the following countries: Estonia Latvia Lithuania Poland Slovakia Czech Rep. Hungary Slovenia Croatia Albania Greece Bulgaria Romania The goal is 105 concerts total, for our team, from mid Jan 2006 to early July 2006. Very excited, should be really cool! There are two other concert teams (one will concentrate on Norway, and another in the Scandinavian countries). The concert consists of two hours with one hour of live singing, dancing, and a media show. Then preaching of the gospel and an alter call with praying. In some cities we may also do school visits before the concert to invite youth to the concert and tell them about ... read more

I found out today that my grandmother passed away this morning back in Texas. But God is so good and allowed my mother to spend time with my grandmother before she went to sleep for the last time. And there is such peace in knowing she is now in heaven, free of pain, worshiping and living with her Lord and Savior! Praise the Lord that this life here on earth is not all we have but we have the promise of eternal life with Him because He died for our sins! Now we must continue each day to spread His Word and who He is so others will have that assurance of eternal life as well because we never know when we may go sleep for the final time here on earth.... read more

I was noticing today how everyone in the house is so beautiful. I am not just talking about physically but from the inside. It is so wonderful to be in such a positive environment! To be somewhere where the people genuinely love Jesus and are not ashamed of it at all. Man if everyone could be in this environment I don't see how they could not believe. Being here is like having Jesus' love poured over you because by living for Jesus each person is allowing Jesus to reach those around them through them. I wonder why then how those of us who do believe don't always allow that love to pour out of us to everyone we meet? I was thinking about myself and realized I am hindering that because of my own insecurities I ... read more

I ended up spending about 2.5 hrs at the police station but now I have a very colorful Norwegian work permit visa on my passport. One of the second year girls went with me so we were able to get to know each other better. We arrived back at the house in time for PT and then had a really awesome praise and worship time. Then we had lunch and had a teaching entitled “You are a soldier.” It was discussing what it means to be a part of the Jesus Revolution Army. The leader went into the background on the Salvation Army - it was really pretty cool. Then he went on to say as soldiers for Christ we must 1. live an unselfish lifestyle 2. don’t just wait around to find out what your ... read more

We woke up at 8 a.m., ate breakfast and packed our lunches for the six hour mountain hike. The hike was hard on my body since I am used to sitting so long studying but it felt great. It was so beautiful and just nice to be outside. Thankfully it did not rain but was just a little windy. We filled up our water bottles from rivers on the mountain (it was actually quite good - there are only 4.5 million people total in all of Norway so there are lots of open spaces with little pollution). After the hike we got into our groups again and had to come up with a drama that included dance and singing to represent the Norwegian scenery. Everyone is incredibly talented and it was quite funny. After that ... read more