Early Sunday morning - May 1

I wake up an early Sunday morning in Moss at the Salvation Army School in Jelöy in Norway. 25 years ago we lived here. For nine years this was our work place. This is where our children grew up. Today one of our sons lives here with his family and is working as teacher at the school. We arrived yesterday evening and we will go back tonight. A few hours together with our youngest grandchild who will be two years old in a month. We have not seen here for half a year so that is really worth the trip. And, of course, it is nice to meet her parents too.

This week we have had an disaster course in Riga. Robert Tuftström, with experience from Haiti and many other disaster areas, have been in Riga to teach  a three-day course. We plan to set up an emergency team to be prepared for future disasters that we pray will never happen.

 

 Robert Tuftström...

...and the learners

We have also received encouraging reports that people have been saved different places in Latvia. One of the corps had a soldiers enrolment of two new soldiers last Saturday.Two months before the enrolment one of the recruits was taken by the police. The police called the corps leader and said that the man claimed to be a recruit in the Salvation Army and that he had asked the police to call the corps. The corps leader asked what kind of crimes he was accused of and the police told him that is was about something that happened five years ago. The police also said that they have known this man for many years but that he now seemed to be a totally different person. And then the police asked: "Do you think we can just let him go since he seems to be so much changed?" The corps leader answered that his opinion was that they should let him go and last Saturday he became a soldier in the Salvation Army.

We also received another encouraging message during the week. Our application for having open air meetings in Riga is approved!! In the main park on the big stage we will have six open air meetings Friday evenings in May and June. Riga Staff songsters will sing, there will be testimonies, Irina and Andrejs will sing, the cadets will perform a drama and we will hand out flyers inviting to our services in Riga. You can expect a report in next week´s "Early Sunday morning".

Until then I wish you a blessed week
Peter Baronowsky