Blogs from Norway, Europe - page 230

Today we had a bit of an unconventional teaching on worship. I do not identify myself as the creative type, especially not musically. When I was told we each were going to dance, make a joyful noise, and sing my first thought was “why?”. I know that sounds awful. I really do love worshipping God and singing when I am part of a large group but I was not blessed with a beautiful singing voice (not even close). The thought of singing into a microphone is something I never wanted to do. We each picked a psalm and had to sing it and then pass the microphone to the next person while some played the guitar, piano and drum. When I was handed the microphone I was just thinking “Lord this is for you. I don’t ... read more

This morning I went to a bakery with one of the other American girls (Bobbi Jo). It was so lovely. Sitting outside in the crisp morning have a café latte with a pastry. Then we took a leisurely walk to a famous park here in Oslo with a bunch of naked statues. Everything was absolutely beautiful, the day, the weather, the leaves, the people, everything around me! We had wonderful conversation about being a missionary, our path in life, God, love and everything in between. I love those days when everything just seems to be in it’s perfect place and you are so filled with joy that you can’t help but smile! Aw, so wonderful!! After that we did a little shopping and then went our separate ways. I went and bought a cup of coffee ... read more

This morning I decided to have the prayer part of my PT outside. I was sitting on a bench by the harbor just watching the water, listening to the seagulls and praying (side note: how blessed am I that I get to spend the first hour of my day like that?!). As I was sitting there I started thinking about the future. I try not to do this too much because I know we are supposed to live for today and that we will have new grace for tomorrow and when I try to look to far into the future it can cause me to start to get a little anxious because it feels so uncertain at times. Thankfully that anxiety no longer grips me as much as it used to. This time when thoughts of ... read more

We had a our weekly team prayer time this morning. One of the girls shared that another team in the past made a list of specific thing they wanted to see God do through their team and prayed for that list during the four months of training. That team saw each of those things occur while they were on tour. So each of us wrote down 3 specific things that we wanted to see God do in our team. The things which I wrote were for each concert to consist of at least 1/3 unbelievers, for 5 homosexuals to be free, and for leaders in the community to be saved. Some of the other things our team is going to continue lifting up in prayer are to see greater things, more people saved, and the Holy ... read more

As we do every Friday, tonight we went out on the town to evangelize. I went with one of the girls from my team who is Norwegian. I have found the easiest people to talk to are those who are sitting, then those who are standing, and the ones walking are just about impossible. When we first started walking on the main street in Oslo we saw two girls sitting on the steps of a store. I approached them, said hi and could tell right away they were not happy to see me. They were Norwegian so my friend talked to them. I couldn’t understand what they were saying but from the body language I could tell it wasn’t going well. When my friend started to walk away I followed and she explained that when she ... read more