Mid-week review - week 45

My personal reflections from my view-point in the middle of the week..
Right now intensive preparations are going on for the twenty years anniversary of the Salvationa Army re-starting in Latvia after the occupation. The Festival will take place the 18th of November, the national day of Latvia.

You can hear people practice in all corners of the building. Tamburins, Choir and Brass Band. The builders working with the new entrance to the Riga 1st corps are working late all days of the week. Preparations are also going on of the exhibition, the drama and the publishing of the Latvian War Cry .

Last Sunday I saw the manuscript of the War Cry on it´s way to the printing office. There was an interview with Ruth and myself and in one of the questions we were asked about what we were dreaming to accomplish in Latvia. The interview took place in September. The two dreams we told about in the interview were to create a Children´s House in Sarkani and a social Center in Riga. At the time the interview was made it was only dreams. Today the work with the Children´s House is going on intenseively...

...and the Social Center is situated in the corner between Avuto iela and Stabu iela and is right now preparing for the official opening the first of December.

Dreams are coming true! I believe that God has heard the desperate prayers from the children in Sarkani and from the poor people in Riga.

The coming weekend Ruth and myself will have meetings in the Mission Church in Fristad. Our oldest son and his family are active members in that church. On the Saturday we will have meetings informing about Latvia and on the Sunday we will have the service in the church. During that service we will play a cornet trio, played by three generations. Myself, our oldest son and his second oldest son. I look forward to that.

Peter Baronowsky