Early Sunday morning in Riga - January 8

Review of the passed week seen from my personal point of view.

Last Sunday, the first day of the new year, the Corps in Bauska enroled seven new soldiers! That was a good start of this year and several other corps are running recruit classes preparing for more soldiers enrolments. The Salvation Army in Latvia is growing.

During the week our youth leaders have conducted a camp for younger teenagers in Skangale. Teenagers from all over Latvia participated in the camp.

During the past week the Leader of the Salvation Army in Sweden/Latvia has started a blog. She has posted a blog about the high cost of freedom:

 "When I see the number and variety of ads for wine in our newspapers and hear Sverker Olofsson in his television program (January 4), about Sweden, which is about to drink itself to death, - then I wonder who is paying the cost for that freedom. The children? The family? Teenagers? In any event, the cost is not borne by the advertisers and the drinking culture lobbyists. Why don’t more decision makers (you and I in our different roles and circumstances) exercise their freedom to say no to all that destroys, breaks down and kills?"

During the past week the School For Officers Traning (SFOT) has moved from Betania, which the School has shared with Riga 2 Corps, to the premises in Agenskalns where the Children´s Home just moved out. The Officers at the School have been working long days all week through to prepare the new facilities for the cadets moving in next week. It will surely be an exciting and blessed week.

I pray that also your week will be blessed.
Peter Baronowsky