A TIME TO BE BOLD

It's all about stepping out and being bold! One of our NTNU student friends, Halvor, decided to put himself out there by memorizing the passion story in the last 4 chapters of Mark and recite them in the hallways at both NTNU campuses. As people walked by, he stood by a large cross (curtesy of Chuck's carpentry skills) and near a table with free candy and New Testament bibles. It was interesting to see how some gathered to listen and others walked by and grabbed a bible. Others walked by seemingly ignoring him, but God's Word never returns void! It is awesome to see the Christian students step out in boldness and proclaim the Truth! :)

Afterwards we all went down to one of our favorite areas of the city- Bakklandet- and enjoyed the sun and conversation at a cafe. Here when it begins to hit 40 degrees (Fahrenheit), everyone is outside! Here are Kelly, Magnus, Brett, and Halvor.
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This past weekend, we took a ferry across the fjord with the Haavik family as their whole family is back to visit for a couple of weeks. It was a lovely start to the our Easter break, or "påskeferie". We now have a week of no classes and Brett's sister Brooke is coming to visit for the week. It will be nice to take some time to relax and we are planning to visit some other cities in Norway for a few days. The tradition for many Norwegian families during this time is to go to cabins in the mountains for skiing and sunning and eating "Kvik Lunsj" (similar to kit-kat bars) and oranges. Sounds like fun to me....



I also recently had a great time attending my friend Idunn's Tae-Kwan Do test and was able to cheer her on as she received her first black stripe on her red belt...only a few to go and on to black! She is definitely small but mighty (seriously- she was chopping boards with her hand! Cool!) Idunn is currently studying and is on the worship team for the Unbad youth meetings and has been attending my cell group on Tuesday nights. She is hungry to experience more of God and I know God is going to do great things with her life!