Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, Things have been moving quickly! It is hard to believe that it has been three years since we first began gathering once a month to pray and dream about what God might do through a new church community. We started as a house church with our own plans, but along the way, God changed them and led us somewhere we never expected — into becoming a church with a physical home of our own. Purchasing our church building has required a great deal of

As you follow the Jacob's River to Grense Jakobselv from Kirkenes — the far northeastern part of Norway — you will reach the shore of the Barents Sea. There, as you watch over the border to Russia, you would spot a cross standing on a sandy land. I was drawn by the cross and as I came close to the cross, I saw the text: “The cross was drawn over the nation proclaiming: Norway belongs to Christ.” Undoubtedly, Norway is a Christian nation and the statistics also still say so —