Early Sunday morning in Turku, Finland, September 9

Weekly review from my point of view. 
This week started with Leaders´days in Liepaja on the west coast of Latvia. Our 30 Leaders´ were gathered for two days of information, sharing and praying.

Half way on the way between Riga and Liepaja we stopped in Saldus for coffee and to pray for the new corps planting in that city.

On the Monday evening we had an open air meeting in Liepaja and after that a public meeting in a nearby Baptist Church.

The Staff Songsters singing in the open air meeting

The local Daily paper reported from the Open air meeting:

Here is a translation of the article:

The Salvation Army Goes out to People

Kristīne Pastore

"Yesterday at four o’clock in the afternoon near Liepāja’s Latvian Culture House a number of Salvationists gathered together. “We have guests,” happily said the leader of the Salvation Army corps in Liepāja captain Velta Udarska. Representatives from all 11 corps in Latvia had come to Liepāja to participate in the open air meeting.

“This open air meeting is organised in order for us to talk with people about God,” to the Kurzemes Vārds said Velta Udarska. In the meeting that lasted for half an hour there were Christian songs in Latvian, Russian and English, as well as testimonies – people that are active in the Salvation Army were sharing their experience, and the ways they came to God. “You know, in this time when so many people are having hard times, when they lack the means of living, when people are desperate, when many people leave their country, and families are destroyed, God is the one who helps a person to see the true values and to keep a bright look in this gloomy world,” says V. Udarska.

After the meeting all people that were gathered were invited to join the worship service in the Pāvila Baptist Church. But meetings in the Salvation Army Liepāja corps take place every Sunday at 11 o’clock in Rīgas iela 26 (entrance from Tirgus iela)."

Small group talks in Liepaja

You can see a lot of pictures from the Leaders´ Days here.

Right now we are in Turku, Finland leading a Bible Weekend with the theme: "You shall receive power!" I will come back with a report from the weekend in Finland later next week.

Until then I pray that you will have a blessed week.
Peter Baronowsky