Last saturday our cadets were "upgraded" to second year cadets and the day after there was a "spiritual day" at the Training School. Ewa-Marie and Markus Kihlagård from Sweden were teaching and sharing their experiences as corps leaders in a growing corps. They talked about all of us having a seed to sow an harvest. They gave us all a Sun-flower-seed as a symbol of our calling to use our "seed" in the best way. They also put the seeds on the altar to remind us of our responsibility for our seed.
Two.year-cadets-epaulettes
Sun flower seed on the altar
During the week we have also had additional interviews with people applying to our School for Officers Training and on Friday we should have had our last Open air meeting before the summer break. But we had to cancel the meeting due to rain over Riga. Too sad. We have really had great opportunities in the park so far, meeting a lot of people.
On Friday, in the rain, the Mission Team from UK arrived in Riga. After a very long evening waiting for a number of flights and a an experience of a car break down, they finally went on to the Seda-Sarkani area which is the goal for their Mission Trip.
Saturday we had a cousin reunion for the Hawkinson family. Ruth´s mother had six brothers and sisters. Three of them emigrated to America and one returned later to Sweden. One the siblings in America became an Officer in the Salvation Army in USA. Of the remaining four siblings in Sweden three became Officers. Now one of the American families visited Sweden and children, grandchildren and grand-grandchildren from one of the American and two of the Swedish families met. It was difficult to get them all inte one picture, but here are most of them.
On Monday we will have a day of business meetings in Stockholm. First at the Headquarters and later with the Baltic Children foundation.
After that comes a period of travelling every weekend:
-Next weekend Ruth and myself will speak at the Roots Conference in Finland
-The week after that we will go to the congress in Stockholm together with thirty Officers and Cadets from Latvia.
-The weekend after that it is commissioning and ordination of new Officers in London, and since we have one of our cadets being commissioned we will of course be there.
-The weekend after that we will conduct an Army wedding in Latvia. One of our Officers is getting married.
After that we expect a slightly calmer period.
Have a blessed weekend
Peter Baronowsky
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