Dear friends and loved ones,

As usual it´s been a while since last update. Many of you prob­a­bly don´t know that Sanna and I have moved back to Nor­way. We had thought that we would stay in Mora­vian Falls, NC, till Decem­ber this year. That´s what we believed when we moved to the US, but God wanted it oth­er­wise. In the end of June we were asked to be part of a church plant in Oslo, the cap­i­tal city of Nor­way. The church will be a Catch the Fire church and is under Toronto Air­port Chris­t­ian Fel­low­ship (TACF). It´s start­ing Sep­tem­ber 20th and Sanna and I will be the youth lead­ers there.

It took some time before we reached the deci­sion to go for it. We prayed a lot about it and sought coun­sel from friends. From Proverbs 11:14 we learned that “where there is no guid­ance the peo­ple fall, but in abun­dance of coun­selors there is vic­tory.” This is true and we´ve expe­ri­enced it. All the wis­dom, guid­ance, input and prayers we got from our friends on the moun­tain is price­less! They advised us on how to go forth, how to con­duct our­selves, the right pro­to­col etc. And they all asked the Lord for direc­tion for us. One thing that was very spe­cial for us was when David and Adam (two superb friends) came from High Point and Win­ston Salem to get together with us and pray with us. That was pre­cious. We thank God for such true friends. When we left them and flew home to Nor­way we knew that we were on the right way and that God really had called us home again. But it wasn´t only easy to go home…

Before we moved to the USA we sold many of our belong­ings and our car, and we moved out of the house we rented from the mil­i­tary. So now we´re in a sit­u­a­tion where we can almost start from scratch, hehe. We have an advan­tage over the world and that is that God has promised to take care of us, and He will! He has always been faith­ful to us before and God never changes. So it´s all good. I have an inter­view for a job on Tues­day, so please pray for me that I get the right job there. We´re also look­ing for a house, but before I have a job we will not get a loan and can­not buy any­thing. But at least we´ll know what´s on the mar­ket by the time we are able to pur­chase. And we won´t stop any­one from giv­ing us a house and a car either, hehe.

God has taken good care of us! If it wasn´t for Him we wouldn´t even have been here now. We didn´t have money for the plane tick­ets back home but He pro­vided for us through friends. Thank you, Jesus! Our friends back in Mora­vian Falls also helped us a lot while we were there and before we left they threw us a farewell party. We had an awe­some time that evening! I think it was about 30 peo­ple there that came to wish us the best for the next chap­ter in our lives. We are so blessed!

Now we´re stay­ing with Jostein and Rei­dun, one of the pas­tor cou­ples, and it´s great to be here. They make us feel at home and they help us look for a house. We want to buy a place that has poten­tial so that Sanna can fix it up so we can sell it with profit. Good plan, let us see what we can find.

I don´t want to write too much here so it will not be too much for ya´ll to read. God bless all of you who have read this far. We love you with the love Christ Jesus has given us for you. You are amaz­ing peo­ple and God has awe­some plans for you! Grace be with ya´ll!