Back on base...

Well, my team arrived back at the base in one piece from the north... we drove 27 hours straight through Sweden... Glad that trip is over now... I didn´t sleep almost at all.. now, we just have a few weeks left of work here and we are finished... I will be moving back to the States in the end of June and will be back in Oregon for a little while... my time here has been very fruitful, and I am very thankful for everything God has taught me and also for everything He has done through me. The DTS has arrived back safely from their various outreaches with many great stories and will be off again for a few days on different trips in Norway telling about their experiences in the students´home churches. On May 31st, they will all graduate. I would appreciate your continued prayer and support as I am not completely done with my ministry here. I still have some time to be used by God here, and I would like to be available to be used. May God bless and keep all of you. Be blessed!
-Jordan K. Ernst

Nordic Tundra...

The fashionable headwear of the Same(Sawmy) people...

The last few days we have been in Finland, Sweden, and Norway... it has been a pretty fun little trip.. we has 2 very cool shows; 1 in Finland, and 1 in Norway... Until next time!

Nordtun area... just south of Bodø...

This is a video from Saltstraumen; the strongest maelstrom in the world.
maelstrom |ˈmālˌsträm; -strəm| noun a powerful whirlpool in the sea or a river. • figurative a scene or state of confused and violent movement or upheaval : the train station was a maelstrom of crowds | a maelstrom of violence and recrimination. ORIGIN late 17th cent.: from early modern Dutch (denoting a mythical whirlpool supposed to exist in the Arctic Ocean, west of Norway), from maalen ‘grind, whirl’ + stroom ‘stream.’

Arctic Circle and Bodø

We have now crossed into the Arctic Circle!!

Yeah.. isn´t this a funny picture.... Isabel got into some growth hormones and this was the result..... =)

Mosjøen

Mosjøen is approx. right at the center of the ripples...

Well, we have arrived in a small place called Mosjøen. It will be the first place in North Norway that we will have a show.

Crossed into North Norway...

It´s official; we have crossed into North Norway. We are now in a small place called Mosjøen with a population of 13, 000. We will have a show in the local Pentecostal church on Saturday night, and on Sunday we will continue north to Bodø. PLEASE keep us in your prayers.. the spiritual atmosphere is apparently very dark up north.. Thanks!

Trondheim

This is the seagull that tried to impress us by standing on one leg.

Taking a short potty-break between Trondheim and Molde...

We were just visiting a fortress in the hills around Trondheim..

Don´t have an explanation for this one...

Getting "nervous" around the canon...

yeah... it is basically what it looks like...

These were just pics taken while we were having a day off in Trondheim... We were all kind of bummed by the lack of good weather... Back in Skien it was very nice weather... very warm and very sunny...