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Sunday

Early Sunday morning in Piilspala, June 25

Finlly we arrived in Piilspala after 400 km on mainly good roads. Piilspala is a great vacation place in the middle of Finland close to one of the many lakes. This is the third time the Salvation Army arranges a Roots conference in this place and the participants come from all over Finland.
Ruth and myself have had a daily workshop each and we have been speaking in the evening meetings. In the afternoons there were free time for different activities including sauna, swimming in the lake or indoors in the pool.
The worship group Piilspala

After I had preached on Thursday evening the Fire Brigade came! But the reason was not that the fire of the Hopy Spirit was outpoored after my preaching. There was quite other reasons for the Fire Brigade to come.
After the meeting the choir and the band was rehearsing. The band planned to use a "smoke-machine" in one of their pieces. When testing the machine they had problems to get it started but when they finally got i going it was impossible to stop it. The whole building was filled with smoke and the fire alarm went off. Some of the participants had a late evening trying to explain what has happened to the Fire Brigade.

Singing and moving around in Piilspala
During the conference a new book was presented, published by the Salvation Army in Finland. The book was released in three languages, Finnish, Swedish and English. The title of the book is "A sacramentral Army, the Salvation Army view on a sacramental life style in a Nordic context". The book is authored by Vibeka Krommenhoek (DK), Johnny Kleman (SE) and Antero Puotiniemi (FI).

This afternoon, after the service, we will travel back to Helsinki with car and on Monday morning we will take a flight back home to Riga. Then it is only one more day before we will go to the Congress in Sweden together with thirty Officers and Cadets from Latvia.

Have a blessed week
Peter Baronowsky

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