Back from the tour - people get saved!

Back from the tour, actually two days ago, but I didn't gidd to write in the blog until now. But here I am, and we've seen some great results, 32 people responded to the Gospel during our show!

(Just a fast explanation to those of you not Skien-resident-English-speakers, "to gidd" is a englishyized word, from the Norwegian word "Ã¥ gidde" which means something like Ii could have done it, but I don't really want to, so therefore I don't do it."that'ss "to gidd". Just for future reference.)

We were in three churches, all of them were "traditional" two prayerhouses (bedehus) and aLutherann state church. And they received us very warmly, and really took care of us.
On Saturday, we had two shows in 4 hours, including rigging down and up the equipment. We really got to test our ability to put it up fast, and we did. I actually think that we performed one of our best shows that Saturday night. The singers rocked more, and the dancers we're doing new changes to the dances, some things even different from two hours before...

I really had a good time, and we were enjoying the beautiful west coast as I was expecting, and we were even blessed with nice weather when we were there. The summer is coming, folks.

And yesterday I was on a short blind date. More about that later. Gotta go. The DTS is graduating tomorrow. Making entertainment. Yeah!

-paul andreas

Soon going on tour

We're soon going on a tour again. We're taking our "Reboot"-program to the beautiful south west coast of Norway, and we have three shows this weekend, so it's a short tour, but nevertheless, we want to see much fruit on this tour.

It's evangelistic, with dancing, preaching and singing (that's where I come in. Singing solo and backups...) We've seen quite a lot youth saved during our previous tours this year, and it's great being a part of taking in the harvest.
Please pray for us, that we'll function well as a team, for safety both for equipment, cars and people, and also that God will use us the way He wants in reaching people for Him. We'll leave on Friday, and be back on Sunday.


The DTS is back. It feels so right having them back, but I start feeling that I don't want them to leave again, but they're graduating next Wednesday, so after that, they'll leave...
But first we'll have a lot of fun, hanging out and seeing them graduate. Today and yesterday we played soccer, or football as we Europeans like to call it...
They are really good people, and I will miss them, but as I so often have experienced before, I will meet them again. Maybe in the most surprising of places...


Till I write again: Stay close to the Lord Jesus Christ!

-paul andreas


And, please comment or send me an email. Please!

The Return of the DTS

They're coming back. Today.

Been gone for 2 months. Back. Today.

It's that weird feeling again, the one you have after you've been away for some time, for example 2 months, and then you get back and you feel like you haven't been away at all. It's just as if the time between you left and now is squeezed into a five minute span of time, and you're standing here with the feeling: "I was here just ten minutes ago, it feels..."

But the thing is, I wasn't on outreach this time. I was back here in Norway, looking forward to the teams getting back, and still I have that feeling of coming back and seeing that everything is as it was.

But I'm really looking forward to see all my DTS Skien friends again. It is going to be good times, and lots of hugs today, I feel it coming.



So, what has happened the last days, then, you ask.
Whatever happened to the frequent updates you promised us? Why haven't you written before?
I'm sorry. It was the typical way it all happens: Once you want to sit down to write, something else comes up, and it's delayed. But here it is.

The 17th of May was different. Usually, I'm home on that day, but this year I was here in Skien. We were planning on eating alot of ice cream, but I ended up eating 1. But I ate 4 hot dogs. And watched the Russ' (the high school graduates) parade. It was one of the worst parades ever.
The Russ' Parade is a lot of graduates that have been having these long party weeks, about a 3 weeks party, combined with being at school, and this ends on the 17th of May, with this parade. It's supposed to be a parade giving us alot of laughs, but it's getting less and less fun. Yeah...
They are usually bad, but there's often a few funny things said or done by the Russ, but this year there was close to nothing funny at all. Hooray!

But now the summer is coming, so I have to go meet it.
Have a good day so long, and please comment my blog if you want to, AND, if you've got one yourself, tell me, and I'll try to post a link from my blog.

-paul andreas

Not a slave anymore

Wow, this was fun, just completed my last post like some few minutes ago, but I just had to share some revelation I got earlier today:

John the Baptist says about Jesus:
"I'm not even worthy to carry his sandals" - which the Living Translation very nicely puts it:
"But someone is coming soon who is far greater than I am--so much greater that I am not even worthy to be his slave."
WOW! John the Baptist said that. And he was a man who had left everything to be able to prepare the way for Jesus. And he didn't consider himself worthy to even be called Jesus' slave!

And then, Jesus calls his disciples friends. Not longer servants, but friends! How big is that??!
And then we're also called children of God. The Most High God, the Almighty one, the One that created the universe and the bumblebees, the One who is the only One worthy to receive praise, He calls us His Children!

Let us understand that, Lord! Let us see who we are in You! That we were adopted into your family, not being even worthy of being called the lowest possible of your servants, we have now been given the gift of being called the children of You, rightfully, because we believed and accepted you, Jesus! THANK YOU!


-paul andreas


Bible verses: Matthew 3:11 and John 1:12 and John 15:15

The dots of light

The dots of light. Taking a picture of myself. Fun? Yeah! Really hilarious...
Well, kinda, sorta for you to know what I still look like, in case you forgot along your long and traveled road, called life. Remember to follow Him. In His footsteps. Don't walk off alone. Don't try taking any shortcuts. Follow Him.

-paul andreas

I would probably consider this as my first post...

Now I'm trying to get started again at this blog-thing. It's not that easy to tell people to visit this page when it's never been updated, and even I haven't wanted to check it out.

But from now on that will be different! I will tell you what's happening, and you'll have to promise commenting, or at least reading whatever my hands have been typing.

For those of you who don't know, (I know I'm writing for a pretty diverse audience, so I have to get on the same page with everybody for starters...)
OK, starting this sentence again, as the last one was ruined by that parenthesis:
For those of you who don't know, I am now working with YWAM in Skien here in Norway. I am a staff, but not a dts-staff. I'm working with some different stuff, as webdesign, making brochures and videos, singing in a tour, staffing Mission Adventures, and a whole lot of other things.
Our base is an old prison, a real old prison, not a metaphorical prison. And I live in a cell. The doors are like 10 cm thick, that's about 4 inches. The walls are made of brick, and we have bars infront of our windows. But it's really cool there, you don't feel you're in a prison, you feel more like you're in a cool old building. I'll try to get some pictures posted up here.

These last days, we've been joining a campaign that YWAM Norway has been running, called Eternal Impact. For those of you who know Impact World Tour, this is somewhat an alteration of that, with a Norwegian team (a theatre play and a rock band) one night, and M3 (or GX Jam if you like) the other night. My task has been helping out with whatever was needed, this time it was being a cable boy for Jamilu and Phil. It's been fun.
And God did use the show to get the young people of Bø and Kragerø to respond to him, out of 600 in Bø, about 70 responded to the call to salvation, and in Kragerø, I think about 50 out of the 400 that was there responded! That is great! Just join us in praying for all those who received salvation, that they will grow in their faith, and that they will not fall away, but that they will become strong and mature followers of Jesus.

I think that's it for now.
Tomorrow we'll celebrate the 17th of May, the day of the signing of the Norwegian Constitution 191 years ago, in 1814. Lots of ice cream, barbeque and hot dogs. And being with friends.

Love Him!


-paul andreas