Interesting, but Tough

As in June, we’ve been traveling a lot in July. In the first half of the month I was ministering as a pastor in a youth camp. This is the second time they invited me to be the pastor. Maybe they liked the first time. 🙂 This time the camp was a little different:...

You Stop, You’re Dead

Musta Tunturi (Barren Tundras), Murmansk Region, Russia; April 28 — May 1, We have a 5-year tradition of ski trips on May holidays (usually first 3 days of May). The previous years we had them more like expanded ice fishing trips. We skied to our camp about 10...

I Don’t Even Know What It Really Was

I don’t even know what it really was. We called it a Conference, but obviously it wasn’t. It was some gathering of men mostly from Alta, and also from some other places of Norway around. I was the only non-Norwegian resident at the meeting. We have been planning this...

Powerful in Worship, Fellowship, Message

On December 2nd and 3rd, we had our annual men’s conference in the Murmansk Region. To tell the truth, I had a really hard time preparing it. God is taking me through some major changes, including changes in my character, my attitude toward people, ministry, God, and...

Bulgaria: Stepping into the Unknown

About a year ago I received a phone call from a man who I barely knew. He was telling me something about his friend from Moscow, his pastor who died a few months before, about mission in Bulgaria and other things, which couldn’t fit into my head. After some time of...