A job to do

For some reason I find myself working on cars on a regular basis. It's good to have several of them just in case all of them don't work all the time.

I enjoy to spend some of my time off, in the garage. It is good to have a creative hobby and to relax doing something different to everyday life and still live the same life. We are all unlike to one another. What is a huge challenge to me, is a peace of cake to someone else. Toys, some experience and a little knowledge, is what it takes just to be a outstretched hand to someone whose mountains seems impossible to climb.

Preparing for Bolivia again

I consider it as one of my greatest privileges, to be a servant of the gospel among the Bolivians. These days I'm preparing for my 5th trip. Two good brothers will go with me, Arne Dag and Bjørn Helge, but none of the bibleschool students, this time. Our departure is Oct. 28th.
The main task on this trip is to teach on some very important subjects for the churches. We will stay in Cochabamba during our visit, but we will see the churches in Punata, Quillacollo and Quintanilla (Sacaba) as well. Those churches are all in the Cbba area and can be reached in 30 to 90 minutes by car.

I'm really looking forward to go and see these wonderful people and what God is doing among them. The Bolivian people is a part of my heart. The churches recently celebrated the Bicentennial of Cochabambas freedom. They say that South America got its freedom because Cochabamba became free. I surely have to dig deeper in my world history books. But I have the sense even of something greater coming out of the history we can make by the calling upon our lives. Remember that the history is His Story. And your prayers counts.

Some days are sad

It's saturday today. Saturdays are good days I think. I like saturdays. Some of them are days of preparing for tomorrow, som are days of doing something else. Today is a preparing saturday. But its always time to have a look in the paper. There I saw a sad thing. My friends mom had unexpectedly past away. My friend is 11 or something. But he is brave. He is a nice boy, smart and wise. His older brother I haven't seen for quite a while, but from time to time we chat on facebook.

I got very sad when I heard about their mother. She was a loving mom. Thinking about my friends' loss, it's like a burden that brings me to silence. But it is good to talk to God about it. He is a great comforter. I'll se my friend tomorrow. What can I say? I don't need many words, just the right ones.

Join us in praying for Boliva

A tremendous trip to Bolivia is over. This time my whole family came with me along with to bibleschoolstudents and one lady from Wales. We have experienced Gods goodness, Gods power, Gods controll, Gods guidance. Hundred and fifty people invited Jesus into their hearts, to be their Savior and Lord. Many sick people got healed from various diseases. A ten year old boy, born deaf, got his hearing. Some cross-eyed had their eyes fixed. Some turned from bad-sighted to good-sighted. Backs were healed. A man who was suffering from a stroke, so that only one of his eyes could move from side to side, had his eyes syncronized in Jesus name. People who had been involved in accidents, with pain, leg damages, knee problems; all kinds of things, were healed.

Bolivia is a wonderfull country. The nature is great, great plains, tropic areas, jungle, rain forest, mountains up to more than 6000 meters. Cities on 4000 meters -centers for politics and religion. Cochabamba (2600) with the most stable and nice climate there is - for a norwegian. And the people must be the most wonderfull in the entire world. Politically everything is unstable. Bolivian politics shocks regularly and blocks the worlds interests to invest in the nation. There's plenty of recourses, but little development.

Spiritually, Bolivia is wide open. Some parts seems to be under the oppression of the confusion that comes from mixing all kinds of religion. The Roman Catholic Church in Rome has, as far as I am told, legalized the mix of Catholisism, devil worship and nature religion with it's worship of the Sun and Mother Earth. I've been in the mines under the cathedral in Oruro and seen the offering to and the shearing of fellowship with the "uncle" as they call him - a statue of the devil.

But most places there is a hunger for God and a desire to get to know him. Convertions easily happens. The bigger challenge is to build a Kingdom of God culture into the life of the society, starting with the churches of course.

It is a great privilege to know and to work with David and Violeta and a number of great people who is doing a tremendous job to lead, help and to plant churches. They all need our prayers. In these days, they really need our prayers.