Early Sunday morning in Riga, September 30

Weekly review from my personal point of view

Sunday morning, again! This week the NLDI-course has kept us busy. NLDI is short for Nordic Leadership Development Institute, and that is a two year long Leadership training program. The participants meet one week every semester and the rest of the time the studies are made over internet. The participants come from Denmark, Norway, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Eastern Europe Territory and Romania.

Ruth is in the Staff for the Institute and during this week Ruth and myself have been teaching "Deeper Spititual Life".  Wednesday evening the participants took part in the evening meeting at Riga  Second Corps.

Meeting at Riga 2 corps

The NLDI-course members singing at the meeting

We are now opening two new Corps Plantings in Latvia. One at the School for Officers´ Training in Agenskalns, Riga, and the other one in Saldus, one and a half hours drive west of Riga.

Last Sunday the Corps planting in Riga had it´s first meeting, more or less unplanned. During last week they invited the neighbours to "Open House" and some of the guests asked the Salvation Army to start services in the neighbourhood. So a meeting was arranged and 21 people came the first Sunday.

First meeting in Agenskalns, Riga

The Principal of the Training School, Norm Beckett, speaking, translated by cadet Arturs Pereverzevs

Today (Sunday) we will go to Saldus for the Official Openinge av the Corps Planting there. We do not have any facilities in Saldus yet, so the starting meeting will be an open air meeting. After the opening in Saldus we will continue to Liepaja on the west coast of Latvia for an afternoon meeting with junior soldiers enrolment.

And then, another week. Next Saturday we will have the twenty years anniversary at Iecava Corps.

I pray it will be a blessed week for you,
Peter Baronowsky