Beautiful, hungry for God, humble, faithful…incredible!  Ministering in this place was like eating a huge dish of spiritual ice cream.  We could not keep up with the pace of the people who wanted prayer, and from the moment we arrived, they were just asking for more.  The whole base, which is a farm teeming with gorgeous children, a community day care and Christian school, and a center for numerous ministries and missions, is dripping with God’s blessing.  The sense of fellowship and family among the people was so sweet.  The passion of the people there struck us…evangelism was on everyone’s mind.  Right off the bat, we met a child evangelist, a young man who has invested money and time in creating tools for engaging kids in the gospel.  I had never met a young man consumed with telling kids about Jesus, and I probably overwhelmed him with my enthusiasm the first time we met.  The base has a concentration on supporting and sending longterm missionaries, as well as all the short term trips.  The DTS students we met were vibrant, telling us this was the best time of their lives so far.   

            The first morning we were introduced and shared about why we were there, the incredible purpose that God has uniquely designed for each of us, and why we have know how the enemy has hindered us from walking in it, and finished with an offering of prayer times.  They were immediately a mess, if anything can really be a mess in Norway.  Too many people, not enough slots, ENTHUSIASM!  As we began to pray for the people, we found they were so humble, we would often find ourselves in tears as the Lord spoke to their designs and ways they had been hindered.  Time after time, tall, strong farmer-type men began to cry just at hearing the Lord describe how he had made them, and then what had come against them.  One man in his early sixties broke down when the Lord showed a picture of the abusive discipline of his childhood, and in a half hour, he was free of a depression that had held him his whole life.  We ran into him later that day, and he beamed with joy.  He said it felt like he had had surgery.  The Lord described a tall, strong man as a strategist, communicator, and overcomer before I learned that he had been deaf since birth and overcome every prognosis to learn to speak not only Norwegian, but some English.  We were overwhelmed at God’s goodness as he cried and broke lies of abandonment and isolation.  Pete and Erin prayed for a man who was so relieved at the lifting of his burden, that at the end of the prayer time, I could hear him shouting “Hallelujah!” a floor away!  A beautiful woman discovered that the imprisoned feeling in her home could leave as she took authority over a lie her mother and grandmother had lived out that a woman lost everything when she became a mother.  We’ve found the Lord to be always faithful to speak to hungry hearts, so what really amazed us was the faith and hunger of these folks.  We could have prayed for weeks, and are looking forward to a chance to be back with these saints.