Nesna 16 April: (Eimund)
April 16th Maria Kogstad (from our team) and I went to Nesna to reach out to the youth at the local Christian High School there. Every morning the school  has a short chapel meeting with the youth where a brief message is shared. This time I got the chance to share my testimony and the simple gospel for the whole school.That was such a precious moment since this school has a big majority of non-believers! We as well are getting better connections with the students because we have visited so much, and in the evening we gathered a good group of youth for a meeting in a local church.
​So the youth in Nesna is definitely hungry for Jesus, and we have the privilege to share him with them!
( Cassie) 
A few of us joined Eimund and Maria in Nesna for the meeting in the evening, and we got to meet some of the students that came. We just  hung out  with them, shared some of our real life with Jesus, had some really meaningful conversations and got to encourage many of them. Also, we just had fun playing music and being with them. It is really beautiful to have a place where youth know that they are welcome to come as they are, ask any kind of questions and that we can just share Jesus and our honest life with them and let them know that they are so valued. 
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Everyday testimony (Eimund)
Two weeks ago I went on a run in one of the nearby trails, and I ran by a couple with many dogs. I felt God told me that one of them had pain in their knees. So I asked them, and the man responded and said that was him, and he had been in serious pain the last days. Then I asked if I could touch his hand, and immediately he felt a difference! He got a little bit freaked out, but was not yet a hundred prosent healed so I got to touch his hand again and he got nearly hundred prosent healed. Then they thanked me and asked me if I was a healer, but then i got share that this is Jesus and that he longs for a relationship with them!

(Cassie) 
We have another team from the Fire and Fragrance DTS (YWAM) in Kona, Hawaii here right now, but we´ll fill you guys in on that in the next letter, that will be longer and with more pictures! 
Stay blessed! 
​Eimund & Cassie 

When you are a missionary there are challenges that you would not have if you chose a more "A4" kind of life. However, with God the blessings are always much bigger than the challenges. To see lives changed by the power of the Gospel and people growing in their faith is a reward in itself. To experience God's guidance and provision builds more faith than 100 hours of teaching could ever do.

The last month here in Poland has been a good and busy month where we have experienced God's guidance and goodness.

An interesting experience
This last month I had quite an interesting experience. As me and Kasia were leaving the church after a Sunday meeting, a couple stopped us. We started to talk and they said they recognized me from a video with Torben.

They told me they had not been saved for so long and that they did not belong to any particular church. After getting saved, they got in contact with another Norwegian who is working with house churches in Poland. So now they had started to weekly gather friends in their apartment.

This was very interesting, so I asked where they lived - and guess what! They live only with a 10-minute-walk from where we live!

Here is a little update on what God is doing in Poland. This year began with some rather big changes when it comes to the team stationed here. Michael returned to Denmark and Anna is now back in the US to gather more support. But Kasia and me are still here, though, and God is doing great things in Poland.

New disciple training program
One of the exciting projects we have been working on the latest months is a new disciple training program. Our dream is to make it become a daily Bible school, but in the starting phase it will take place two weekends every month for a six-month period.

If there is one song that became the theme song for the Nations Calling conference this year, it was Lindy Conant’s song “Every soul”. Traveling back to Poland, after some amazing days in Bergen, I could hear the chorus being repeated in my head:

It was almost like God had pushed the repeat button to make sure that I got the message.

Europe is on the verge of a new revival and even though there are many dark numbers when it comes to Christianity in Europe I believe God is looking at the potential and not the problems. Let’s start talking to the mountain about how great our God is, rather than speaking to God about how big the mountain in.

From the first meeting on Friday evening I felt there was an expectancy in the air and a “here am I, send me!” attitude in the hearts of many of the people. Dag Rane preached about our calling and I believe this released a hunger in those who were there - a longing to step into the call God had for them. This was confirmed as several people came forward after the prayer to share about the countries God had put on their hearts.

Fire and Fragrance
We were also blessed to have YWAM’s Fire and Fragrance team leading the worship. After all, what is more fitting than having a YWAM team leading the worship at a mission conference?

As many probably already know, YWAM has been a pioneer when it comes to sending out both missionaries and short-term mission teams and the latest years it seems that more and more ministries are starting to focus more on Europe. I do believe God is starting to stir up a new passion for reaching this continent with the Gospel and I feel blessed to be able to take part in what God is doing.

As Nations Calling we want to train, equip and send out those who are willing to go and our prayer is that God will start to speak to you.

The Lord of the Harvest is asking “Whom shall I send, and who will go”. Now let us pray that many new workers will say “Yes!” to God’s call.

To stand on a bench in town to preach the Gospel is not a typical "European" thing to do, but God has never let Himself get limited by what people think is "normal". When the team from the Veien Bible school was in Poland, we experienced that this perhaps a little non-traditional way to preach the Gospel opened the door we hadn't even thought about.

It started with Steinar standing on a stone in the pedestrian area and starting to preach the Gospel. While he was standing there, a man approached him, started to comment and then walked away.

After a little while Steinar stood on the stone again and started to preach the Gospel one more time. The same man approached him and interrupted him, asking if he could preach to the homeless.

Before the team trip we had been talking about a possibility to talk to the homeless, alcoholics and drug addicts, but we didn't have any contacts there so nothing had been done about that. However, when that happened, we understood that God had intervened.

#TeamMo from left: Therese, Marie, Sebastian, Anders, Andreas, Tonje (kids:Luca and Aleah), Rakel, us and Maria ( not pictured)
Exciting from the start
In August the entire team, us included, arrived in Mo i Rana, and on August 27th the church officially welcomed Andreas and Tonje Fjellvang as pastors of Familiakirka. ( middle)
The team consists of 8 people that simply love Jesus and want to see Mo impacted by the love of God, both in the church and in the community in many different ways. We all have committed to serve under Andreas and Tonje in Familiekirka for two years.
​People are open
Each of us on the team has gotten a normal job and are committed to sowing into and blessing the city. We work at clothing stores, kindergardens, restaurants,  a cafe, and a school. Many of us have already seen healings happen at our workplace when we have prayed for our co-workers. We have also experienced that since this is an unreached area in many ways that people haven't been exposed to religion. This makes most people very open for Jesus, and most of them are really positive for prayer and the supernatural....

Many have the idea that Europe is a closed and cold continent when it comes to God and the Bible, but this is not true. Thousands of people all over Europe are already seeking God and many of them are sitting at home searching the Internet and reading their Bibles . They just don’t know any Christians that can help them find their way and all to often there are no Christian fellowship in the town they are living.

A seeking soul
Some weeks ago we got contacted by a lady who wanted to get baptized. I got kind of puzzled and ask to meet her first so I could hear her story. It turned out that she, as most Polish people, had grown up as a Catholic.  But as she was reading her Bible she did not recognize what she saw in the Bible with what she saw in the church.