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!

Last time you heard from us was the day before we left Norway. Now we are here in Moravian Falls, North Carolina, and we´ve been here since Tuesday night. And it´s great!

I have to tell you about our travel to get here. We left Sanna´s sister at 7 am and went to Gardermoen airport outside Oslo. Our plane left at 10.20 am and we flew to Newark via Copenhagen. We arrived at Newark about 3.45 pm. At the passport control we got stuck! The security officer told us that he could only give us 3 months! We were shocked! I asked him about our visa, because it says one year on the visas in our passports. He told us that since we have business visas he couldn´t give us anymore than 3 months! When we told him that we were doing this mentoring program and really needed to stay here a year he led us to the secondary passport control waiting room. It´s for those who have something wrong with their visas, fingerprints didn´t line up with what they had last time, and stuff like that. We waited almost two hours before I was called up. Luckily a woman who worked for SAS came and got our names and took care of our luggage and rebooked our flight.

When I got up to the security officer he told me that we couldn´t get more than three months and that we had to go back to Norway and apply for a religious visa if we wanted to stay longer. I told him about the mentoring program and that we wanted to be here to get training for ministry and leadership and bring all that back to Norway with us. I gave him our letters of acceptance and he took them and told me to go back to my seat and wait. Sanna and I sat there and prayed and tried to stay calm while we waited for the verdict. Finally he called us both up and told us that he couldn´t give us more than 3 months but that he actually was going to do that for us anyways. He gave us 12 months!! That was totally God´s work! And the officer told us “God keep blessing you guys, God keep blessing you!” So that was really awesome!

Because of the delay we arrived at our new home later than expected, about 11 pm. We love it here! It´s so peaceful and the view is absolutely amazing! Chase, a wonderful guy that we live together with, has a good fire going in the fire place and we sit here and relax, read, pray, write, talk.. just having a very good time.

I don´t want to make these posts so long that nobody will read them. Instead I´m planning on getting new posts out more often then before Please keep us in your prayers and let us know if you have any prayer requests that you would like us to take with us.

Much love to all of you from us!

God bless you and keep you.