Early Sunday Morning in Riga the 28th of November

 

Sunday morning again. And the count-down for Christmas has started.

In the middle of the week the Becketts returned to Australia for a family celebration. So in their absence Ruth and I step in to do the teaching at the School for Officers Training. We like it very much even if we have to put a number of other duties aside for two weeks. I am teaching doctrines and Bible and Ruth is teaching pastoral care and Leadership.

In the middle of the weekly Finance Board meeting one of the staff members came in reporting that the police had  come to our office to make some investigations about our flag outside the house. Our economist went down to meet the police. It showed that somebody had made a complaint about our flag. We did not have the building permit available at the office. At the time the permit was with the builders re-building our entrance. We promised that we should have the permit at the office the next day and the policeman promised to come back the next day. He has not come back yet.. During the visit the policeman said that it was quite a challenging text on the flag. The text is "Latvia for Christ". We know it is challenging and we want it to be challenging.

This is a very special weekend for us. All our family is gathered in Riga due the 40th anniversary of our oldest son. All three sons have arrived with their families. Five grandchildren and totally thirteen peoiple. These meetings do not happen very frequently because we all live far away from each other. But when these meetings happen we really enjoy them.

Now it is early Sunday morning and we all plan to go to the meeting at Riga first corps. At the service we will contribute with a cornet-trio played by three generations. Son, father and grandfather.

Soon this weekend will be over and a new work week will take over.

I hope it will be a blessed week for you. 

Peter Baronowsky