Another week...
It looks as if spring was almost here, but then the snow storm came just in time for the weekend...
Some weeks ago we received an invitation to speak at the Riga Christian School about the Salvation Army. Last Tuesday I had four lessons about the Salvation Army in two different classes. Two lessons in grade 11-12 and two lessons in grade 9-10. I told about what the Salvation Army is, what it does and what it believes. I liked it very much and I hope some of the young people liked it too. I believe most of them never had heard about the Salvation Army before.
In connection with the welcoming of our new Territorial Commander, Marie Willermark, Ruth and myself were invited to inform her and the visiting secretary for Europe, Robert Street, about the Salvation Army operations in Latvia.
We love to tell about Latvia and the great work God is doing there. We have been in Latvia one and a half year and we have seen growth. More than thirty new soldiers have been enrolled in the different corps and outposts. That is a growth with 15-20 per cent of the number og soldiers. We have seen more than twenty new adherents being welcomed. 19 junior soldiers have been enrolled. We have eight wonderful cadets at our training school. For the moment we have eleven Latvian officers in Latvia (and then we have a few foreign officers). If our eight cadets will make it through the training and will be commissioned next summer, then it will be an increase of Latvian Officers with 73 per cent.
Saturday evening was the Welcome meeting for Marie Willermark as Territorial Commander for the Sweden/Latvia territory. The meeting was held at the Temple corps in Stockholm. Robert Street was installing Marie and our new TC preached about our making covenants with God. The Band and the Songsters from the Temple corps took part in the meeting and a worship group from Uppsala was leading us all in worship.
The Temple corps band
This week it has also been decided that we (= all officers and cadets in Latvia) will have a pre-congress-meeting at the Kungsholm Corps in Stockholm. There will be a lot of good music and good testimonies. If you are some place around Stockholm that day you should come. This will happen on Thursday the 30th of June at 19.00.
Until then I wish you a blessed time
Peter Baronowsky
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