Third Day in Riohacha

Hola,

Today we have been in three dif­fer­ent orphan­ages and we met some truly won­der­ful chil­dren and peo­ple who were help­ing them. It was won­der­ful! Some moth­ers had come with their chil­dren to the church who work with the last group we vis­ited, and they were not chris­tians. By the way, that was in the same church our group went to last night. I don´t know how many but some of them said yes to Jesus today! There´s a party in heaven today!

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God Does Miracles in Riohacha, Colombia

Thank you God for Your love and grace. Thank You for let­ting us be here in this city and spread the gospel of Your love. You are awe­some God and we give all the glory to You!

This day has been totally amaz­ing! We could never have expected all this. We had a meet­ing with the pas­tors in Rio­hacha, this morn­ing. Gary preached about spend­ing time in God´s pres­ence and to make it a pri­or­ity to take time with God every sin­gle day. The Holy Spirit came and the pas­tors and their wives got down on their faces and God moved on them. Some wept, some laughed, oth­ers were silent… the atmos­phere was really good.

After lunch we went to the prison to min­is­ter to the inmates. Most of us didn´t know what to expect and I was a lit­tle ner­vous when we came in to the first group of pris­on­ers. It was many of them. They had a chris­t­ian fel­low­ship in the prison and he that brought us in there had worked as a mis­sion­ary in the prison for 5 years. Three of us shared tes­ti­monies with them and 15–20 of them received Jesus as their Lord and Sav­iour. Hal­lelu­jah! It was fan­tas­tic! The sec­ond group we min­is­tered to had made presents for us. They were very happy to get vis­i­tors. They gave us a big urn made out of card­board, newslet­ters and coated with col­ored pieces of stones. It´s really beau­ti­ful. We´ll bring it back to Mora­vian Falls. They also made two pair of san­dals that two of the women in the group got. The rest of us got bracelets that they had made. It was very pow­er­ful to be there with them and to hear some of their sto­ries. God bless all of them.
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Moving to Moravian Falls

Hi every­body,

In about 6 hours Sanna and I are going to the Gar­der­moen air­port to catch a plane. We´re mov­ing to Mora­vian Falls, North Car­olina, USA! We are very excited about going to the States to be part of Gary and Kathy Oates Men­tor­ing Pro­gram! This time tomor­row we will arrive and it´s going to be our new home. God has been with us and we are very happy about this transition.

We will let you all now how every­thing is for us in a cou­ple of days. It´ll be fun to read your com­ments which are most welcome!

Thank you all for car­ing about us and read­ing our blog!

God bless ya´ll!

Love,
Kris­ter and Sanna

Happy New Year

2008 has been a great year for both of us. Sanna com­pleted her first year of Social Stud­ies and Kris­ter worked in a com­mu­ni­ca­tion task group in the Army, the last 5 months as pla­toon leader, and he enjoyed it a lot. After the sum­mer vaca­tion Sanna put her stud­ies on hold, and from Jan­u­ary 2009 Kris­ter has taken a year off from work. Why? Read on!
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