ok....

It is morning... I am at a friend´s place... crashed here last night.... Having a great time in the States with Hans.... We are hungry and about to find some breakfast... Any questions, just e-mail me.... Later

Leaving for Oslo tonight!!!

The time has come! Tonight at 8:25 my train goes from Skien to Oslo! I fly out early tomorrow morning for Portland! pray that the travelling is not too boring... see some of you soon!
-jordan

5 days and counting!

It is getting very close to the day that I make my way back to the northwestern United States. I can´t wait... it has been all too long since I was there for a nice relaxing visit. As for the rest of this week, it is filled with booking and finish up work for the year... Until next time, Jordan

Danmark!!!

hello once again... sorry for the absence... I have been working on a car all week... but anyway, as for what is happening now, REBOOT is off to Denmark tomorrow morning for some days. We have two shows and a day of hanging out in Copenhagen. Should be fun. 5 students from the DTS are joining, and they are a great bunch of people. I look forward to hanging a bit with them. Please pray for us if you think about it! I will write more later!
-Jordan

Denmark!

hello once again... sorry for the absence... I have been working on a car all week... but anyway, as for what is happening now, REBOOT is off to Denmark tomorrow morning for some days. We have two shows and a day of hanging out in Copenhagen. Should be fun. 5 students from the DTS are joining, and they are a great bunch of people. I look forward to hanging a bit with them. Please pray for us if you think about it! I will write more later!
-Jordan

REBOOT in Drammen...

The show last night was so wonderful. We saw a handful of youth respond to the Gospel. I shared my testimony. Runar preached. And I believe many were touched by God. It was very good. Today, a handful of us will join in the local Vineyard church´s worhsip team, and directly following we will find ourselves back on the road to Skien. It has been a nice weekend, and I hope for many more like it. God has encouraged me this weekend. Until next time!
-Jordan

Going to Drammen....

Well, in about 2 hours we will be heading for Drammen for the weekend. Tonight, we will be joining a youth café and speaking a little bit there... tomorrow we have the show... and on Sunday we are preaching in the church service! Should be really cool.. I will let you all know what happens! Until then!
-Jordan

This is not the post that I began originally...

I have now spent the past 20 minutes or so trying to write a really inspiring post, but it failed as I was not able to find the Bible verse that I wanted to use that made the point of the whole thing.... That was frustrating... So the result is now this... In my own words, we should not sit around and wait for God to tell us what to do. God is not in control of our lives...(that may have been controversial..) Do you agree? Do you know why He is not `in control`. Do you think God wants to be in control? I don´t. If He were, would he have bothered to give us free will? What is free will all about? Wouldn´t we be all better off if God just made us do the right thing all the time? Of course God knows what is best for us. Of course He knows which decisions we should make. Why doesn´t He? He gave us free will... Why? So we could be the completion of the most perfect relationship ever. He created us for relationship. THAT, is why He does not dictate our lives. It would not be a relationship if He made all of our decisions for us. We would be puppets. Is it possible to have a relationship with a puppet? Nope... afraid not... The puppet does whatever YOU tell it to do. God does not do the same with us. Puppets have no free will. They can´t decide. They cannot CHOOSE to love anyone or anything. WE, however, have been given the greatest and most dangerous gift of all. Free will. We can choose to love Christ. Therefore, God does not have control over us, nor does He want it. He wants our hearts. He has given us life. He has given us dreams and desires. Don´t wait around for Him to tell you what He wants you to use your life for. You probably already know. And if you are not sure, start going in a direction that seems promising. You cannot steer a ship that is not moving. The ship must be moving first, before you can choose the destination. In everything you do, do it with God. Include God in all that you do. It is as simple as that. Be blessed. God loves you becuase He loves you. That´s it. Enjoy it. Until next time, Jordan

sorry...

sorry about not posting for so long.. I have been kind of lame.. In the past couple weeks I have been on tour on the northwestern coast of Norway. We started up in Ålesund and ended on an island outside of Bergen in a place called Austevoll... It was a good tour. We had lots of cool experiences and also a lot of fun. The team is growing, and getting better known with each other.. For those of you who don´t know yet, I have now been asked to be one of the leaders of REBOOT, so now it is Me and Julie leading the team. Fun fun... Anyway, for now we are in Skien.. we will be doing local shows off and on for the month of November, and will be off to Denmark for a week in December. After that, I am hoping to go home for Christmas for once in my life... it has been some years since I have been able to be home for Christmas, so it would be nice I am able to make it this year... now I just gotta put together 1014.00 usd to buy the ticket.... wish me luck! =) Until next time! Be blessed!
-Jordan K. Ernst

Back from Poland!

Well, as of 7:30 Wednesday morning, REBOOT returned to base from some time in Poland! It was an inspirational trip, and we saw God do many great things. One cool thing I will mention is a story of a 50+ year old Chinese woman that was invited to our show by a friend of her´s. The special thing is; she was a back-slidden Christian of 13 years. Our show was the first Christian environment she had come in contact with in these 13 years, and by God´s grace did she recommit her life to Jesus! It was awesome! Our show is geared towards youth from the ages of 12-18!! God can use anything. That was just one example of what God did in Poland. It was a great time for the team to get to know each other better, and see what life on the road is really like when travelling as a part of REBOOT. Please keep us in your prayers. God bless!
-Jordan

Leaving soon for Poland!

In a matter of 5 hours, we will be driving off to Poland. Arne and I have just finished packing the car and trailer with the equipment, and now we are going to go pack the luggage, and then sleep a little before leaving.. we will be driving through Sweden where we will catch a ferry in the south that will take us to Poland. Pray for us!
-Jordan

The DTS students are invading today!!

Yes, it is official. The DTS students are coming today. No, I am not any longer working directly with the DTS, but it is still a big day in the year of YWAM Skien. I am looking forward to meeting the students anyway... It is always fun. Ok, REBOOT staff meeting now... gotta go!

What is becoming of me??

Well, this weekend has been busy.. we have had a bunch of confirmants from Vennesla, Norway at the base all weekend for a confirmant camp... it was good... I did sound for the thing... I have also been playing computer games with my friend Arne for quite some hours... I needed to do something to relax.. so I thought it would be fun... working on my motor skills and quick thinking... I am ready to get back to work tomorrow I guess... we have so much to do, it is a motivation in itself... just two more weeks until we are taking off.. and boy do we need God's help to get everythiing ready... HELP, GOD!!!

oops...

I haven't been so good for the past 10 days... sorry.... anyway.. things are going well around here.. There is absolutely a ton and a half to do, but it is actually going pretty good i think.. for my part, I have been doing a lot of booking for the tour in Denmark and also the US of A. I have been looking for a new team vehicle a lot as well.. I may have found one yesterday that we will go for. Just have to check some details out, and maybe it will be ours within some days...!! That is a blessing. We have a little less than 3 weeks until we have to be off to Poland. EVERYTHING has to be done by then. A bit stressy at times, but still fun... I like feeling responsible and stuff.. =) If you are curious about where the show will be and when, just drop me a line... We will be in on the west coast in the US in Feb. and March... so... if you are interested in having the show at your church even, let me know.. maybe we can work something out... Until next time!
-Jordan Kenneth Ernst

another post...

Well... on Saturday, I joined a few others in tearing apart some small docks for a farmer that offered us a lot of firewood for the next years if we tear it apart for him. Each dock was approx. 5 m x 2 m... I would guess... it was a lot of work I tell you... we left Skien at 7am and arrived back at midnight... long day... my whole body is sore... But I am also very impressed by how much work we did. We accomplished a lot... There were 16 of those docks and I think about 7 of us.. maybe 8... It is a good feeling to do so much work. Expecially when it was a huge help to that farmer... anyway, I have today and now tomorrow off as well.. so I am going to rest a bit... I am very exhausted.. Be blessed!
-Jordan

Finally back...

What was supposed to be about a 10 hour trip from Stockholm to Skien, ended up being around a 20 hour trip... our bus broke down in the middle of Sweden yesterday afternoon... We arrived back in Skien at 10:30 this morning... long night I tell you.. but we are finally back and safe... good to be back.. we are taking the day off from work... start up again tomorrow... well.. my mind is kind of mush now.. so I will try to write some more interesting stuff later... until then!
-Jordan

Leaving from Poland...

Well, we are at the airport in Gdansk now.. leaving in under an hour... or.. about an hour... We have had a fun weekend... I have experienced a few interesting things actually.. I witnessed a man die on the streets and I watched while the paramedics tried to revive him... he slipped away... Andreas, Einar, Arne, and I all were praying, but he was already gone I think... It was quite heavy to watch... later that night us four got a fine on the train for not buying a ticket in the train station.. we did not know we had to do it at the station.. we though we could just do it on the train... so whatever... it was kind of funny to look back on... they first wanted about 80 bucks from all of us together, but we didn't have that much in cash on us, so we got away with paying like 15 dollars instead... It was an intersting weekend for sure... I will be back here in about a month also. We are bring Reboot to Poland for two weeks in October... Well, we are about to go through customs now... until later!
-Jordan

Leaving for Poland...

Well, in about 50 minutes, we will be driving away from the base... We are driving to Örebro, Sverige (Sweden) where we will sleep for the night, then will continue in the morning to Stockholm where we will catch our plane to Gdansk, Poland. Wish us luck!

It's Monday and all's well....

Monday has began, and we are soon starting work for the day. Another day of planning and scheduling the show. We are in the beginnings of getting a plan for the year, and trying to decide which countries to go to. Our first tour will be in October in Poland. We will be two weeks in Poland. The base will also be going to Poland this weekend for a few days of ministry and relaxation. We leave on Friday afternoon for Stockholm, and will fly from there to Gdansk, Poland on Saturday. I may have forgotten to mention this earlier... but yeah... I am going to Poland this weekend... haha... I will write more later today or tomorrow, but for now, I should get to work...

Day 1

It's official. Today at 12:30, we will begin whatever it is our first day back on the job entails. I am looking forward to see what it will be. This is a nice time of the year for the staff, because it is mainly just practical work around the base. After dinner, it is just time off to relax and hang out with each other. It is very nice to be able to just be the staff and relax with each other for a while before things really start getting busy. Now, most of the staff have arrived and are crammed into the base, and we will be getting underway in a matter of a couple hours. I'll let you know when I know what we are going to be doing. Until then!
-Jordan