There’s a lot of renovation taking place here at Eintrøa these days. We’re glad to have Nils Andreas, our new caretaker since the middle of March, leading some of the rest of us in projects to make our facilities better. He is doing a great job and he works fast too! Right now the old classroom in the main house is being turned into offices.

YWAM Eintrøa is to continue being a part of training and blessing people in the region of Trøndelag, throughout Norway and the Nations. These renovation projects are done to make the base better suited for receiving more people both students, guests and more staff.

Here are some pictures documenting the transformation of the old classroom:


*Our own Mr T –Part of the Wrecking crew

*Our "ancient" hot water tank had to be released from its duty. Here are Nils Andreas and Mr T; carrying its replacement.

*Brenda in action with the brush.

*Evelina taking a break from all the painting.

*Brenda, Nils Andreas and Andreas working together on the new floor.

Good Tidings!

Winter is here again with the temperature below zero and the ground covered with a thin layer of snow; clearly showing the tracks of foxes and deer that are regularly visiting our base.
We’re in the season of advent; a time marked by hopeful anticipation and preparations. We await the celebration of Jesus Christ, our Saviour; God incarnate coming to earth in the likeness of men.


Here at Eintrøa we find ourselves in hopeful anticipation also when it comes to the future of our YWAM base. This past month we have received answers to some of our prayers for YWAM Eintrøa in very unexpected ways. We have prayed for God’s will for this place to unfold and we have prayed for God to send workers to do the job. We have also especially prayed for families with children to come to the base. In November we were told the great news that three families from UiO Grimerud, which is the main base of YWAM Norway, has decided to come to stay and work at Eintrøa for a year in order to be a part of seeing the base up and running with schools and so on again. Two of the families will move here sometime during spring 2010 and the third family will come later in the summer. This is truly an answer to prayer and once again we see God’s faithfulness. We believe that God will continue to call people to come to Eintrøa to do his work here also on a long-term basis.


This week we have had the privilege to have Jorunn Molvik visiting. Jorunn took a Diciplingship Training School here at Eintrøa in 1996, and after that she served a couple of years as our kitchen manager. Today she is one of our missionaries, and she is working with YWAM Brazil; serving in the city of Rio de Janeiro through organizing among other things hospitality and teams and events.




We thank God for sending workers to take part in his work here at Eintrøa, and we continue to pray for God’s will to be done in this place. For wisdom and resources when it comes to ministering to this area of Norway; and also in training and sending out people. We do believe that Eintrøa should be a place where young people both from Norway and the rest of the world will come and be trained, and also be sent out into all the earth; bringing the message of Christ into various different areas of ministry.


The staff at Eintrøa wish you a blessed Christmas and a Happy New year!

October coming to an end

October is slowly coming to an end and since our last blog entry we have experienced what joy and refreshment a couple of days with sunshine can bring after a month of rain, rain and rain. :) As the colour of the landscape around us is still changing its costume from the autumn yellow into brown, and the trees slowly get stripped bare; we can remind ourselves of words from a hymn by Casper Johannes Boye. Poorly translated to English it goes something like this;

Soon the voice of the winter storm will sigh:
All things whither and perish!
Let it whither, I know of a comfort,
which remains through it all.

Let every leaf on twig turn yellow,
let every straw whither
The love of God, this I know for sure,
will not change like that

I know where joy has its home
When the splendour of the earth perishes;
Still, like before from Betlehem
A message of life reaches me.

And this Message of Life, the Good News of the Kingdom of God being at hand is what we want to live and also bring to people through the work we are doing here at Eintrøa.

During October we have of course continued with the ongoing routines and tasks such as office work, doing laundry, biblestudy and prayer, participating in some of the kids groups in the area and so on. We also had some days where we did manual work together; like clearing gutters on the roofs or organizing some storage rooms of which some were really messy. There is such contentment in seeing the results of a job well done. : )

We have also been blessed by having parts of a staff member’s family here during this month. In addition to the joy of having more people on the base; they have also helped us with different things, for example replacing the old woodstove in the girl staff house, which we were not allowed to use.
We are really grateful that we now can use the woodstove again, and we’re slowly getting prepared for the coming winter.

We are also thankful that the local church here in “Agdenes kommune” took up an offering for us one Sunday and we have also tried to connect a bit more with the local church and the people there. It is good and important to have fellowship with other Christians. Another place for us to meet with other believers is the LIFT-group in Trondheim; a group of former YWAMers that meet regularly. This month when they came together, there was an international theme with food and clothes from different nations.

When it comes to future plans for the base; we have had some days of prayer specifically for this and we are in the process of working things out. When we have some news; we will let you know, but please continue to pray for us.

Well; that’s pretty much it for this time.

Ha det gott!

Autumn so far....

“Rain, rain on my face. It hasn’t stopped raining for days. My world is a flood. Slowly I become one with the mud…”

Well it hasn’t really gone that far yet, but we have had a lot of rain lately and as the water gathers on the ground it forms streams that flow down the hills around Eintrøa; our Faroese colleague, Tórálvur, has done a good job making channels for the water so that it will not end up in the wrong place.

September is over now and we have been blessed with a lot of visitors during this month. We had the privilege of having Ray and Patty, who are missionaries in Thailand, with us for some weeks and we are very grateful that they took time to come all this way to share their lives, their experience and wisdom with us. They are precious people!
We have also had some friends and former members of our staff here to visit and encourage us, and it has been great to have some more people and some more noise on the base :)

We are also happy to tell you that our new staff member Hyunjin Brenda Lee from South Korea has arrived. She is the first answer to our prayer for more staff-members and we are glad to have her here working with us.

During September we have also continued our involvement in some of the children’s groups that the local church is running. We are also working on some plans together with some ywamer’s in Trondheim to make plans for an evening Bible study course in Trondheim.

On the 1st of October Jan Torland, who was the base leader here some years ago, brought Edwin Fillies from YWAM South Africa and Armando Benner from YWAM Netherlands up here from the Nations2Nations event in Oslo just for the day. We had some time of praying and talking together and they also came with some suggestions for how they can be a part of helping us. We were very encouraged by their quick visit and are grateful that they took time to come here to see us.

On the 2nd of October we had a precious time of seeking God together and we ended up walking along the borders of Eintrøa’s property proclaiming Jesus as Lord, speaking out bible verses and praying.

Another thing to add to the list of things to be grateful for is that we will get some help with the practical work on the base from Nils Andreas, a ywamer from Grimerud (UIO Norge’s main base). He will come here regularly with his family and help us with things we don’t know how to do, and he will maybe bring other people with him up here as well. The practical needs on this base have become quite a big burden on us lately since we have been without caretaker for more than a year now. We are therefore especially grateful for this initiative, which will make things a whole lot easier for us.


Please join us in thanking God for sending people to us to join and help us in serving and to encourage us, and do pray for us as we continue seeking God for vision and future of Eintrøa.

Blessed be the Lord who daily bears us up; God is our salvation! (Ps68:19)

Summary of summer so far...

Ok; it’s been a while now so I think it’s about time for another update:

Most of the month of July was pretty much marked by problems with the water here at Eintrøa. Our old water pump did not do what it was supposed to do, so we had to get a new one. It turned out not to be the easiest thing to do during July when most people are on vacation, but thanks (many thanks!) to help from helpful neighbours and good phone support from some patient and clever former staff we got a new pump installed a couple of weeks ago. We also received good help from a neighbour this past weekend, as he fixed one of our cars which leaked water. He also fixed the locking mechanism for the bonnet while he was at it. Thank God for good neighbours and former staff!
We do however need to have a caretaker here. There are just too many things here to maintain for us to be able to manage without a caretaker for too long. Please join us in prayer for this, and if you think you are the person for the job or if you come to think of someone else who could be; please let us know.

We have had some guests here at the base during the past month. We’ve had family of people in the local area staying here at Eintrøa while visiting for a wedding or a family reunion. We’ve also had a group of Christians from Hamburg here for two weeks as a part of their “lebens-schule” (=“life-school”) where they come together to seek to know God better.
Last week we had a family from Holland here who came to check out the possibility of coming here to staff. We had a really good time together and were very encouraged by their visit.
It’s been great to have people on the base, and our guests also seem to have appreciated their time here...hm, well maybe except the guy who, while getting ready for a wedding, ended up with shampoo still in his hair when the water stopped working ;) .

We have also learned some new things this summer, like for example how blessed we are to have clean water running in our taps. It's easy to realise things like this when you have to manage without it for a while. Hanna also had to learn how the water system here works, as she was here alone when the water problems started. She really had to learn the hard way (spending quite a lot of time on the phone trying to figure things out as well as going back and forth to the pump room and the water cistern, and also back and forth to the river and to the neighbours carrying litres and litres of water), but has now been able to pass on her knowledge to Evelina with a lot less stress :) .
Evelina has this past week developed her computer skills. The Internet stopped working one day, but with some phone support from Oddmund (a former staff who still helps us with many things) Evelina managed to get it going again. Hurray! She also learned how to do some stuff with our website that should have been done ages ago. Sorry that we’ve been so bad at updating it!

Well; that’s all from us for now. We are still here and God is still showing his faithfulness in different ways.
May God’s peace be with you! Amen!

A Good Report…; a Very Good Report.

On Saturday we got the message that Brenda Lee, a South Korean lady who has worked with YWAM Wiler in Switzerland for many years, has now received her permit to come and work with us at Eintrøa. We rejoice in this good news and look forward to see Brenda coming here in the autumn.

And then there was....two.

It is soooooo quiet in this house; the only sound to be heard right now is the humming of computers.
This week the number of people present at Eintrøa has dropped to half. Well; since four members of our staff are temporarily away for different reasons, we were only four here to begin with, but even so; there is truly a noticeable difference being only two instead of four.
On Tuesday Christian Brack, who has been a part of this base since 1997, packed his car, left Eintrøa and is now heading for new horizons. Today Iver, who has been working with us since last September, also packed his belongings into a car and left, with plans of attending a DTS after the summer.
It is sad to see good friends leave, but such is life and life does go on.
The other day we looked at a staff-picture from last October and if I don’t remember it wrong, we counted to 12 people on the picture. Ecclesiastes talks about different seasons, and this is obviously a season with less people, but we do pray and hope for another “people-season” to take over soon; a season with people coming instead of going.

This week has not only had its share of breaking up, but also of things breaking down. We were on our way down the hill heading for Lensvik the other day, when we suddenly heard a scraping sound from beneath the car. It turned out that the muffler had partly fallen down and we had to fix it temporarily in order to get the car to the garage. Yes, we keep learning new things whether we like it or not ;) The car is still driveable but sounds like a tractor, and will hopefully be repaired next week.

When that has been said, we should also mention that a lot of things actually have been fixed this past week also. We had former members of our staff; Oddmund and Christopher, here during the weekend and they both did a great job fixing computers and electrical problems. We are very grateful to friends who come and serve us like that!

Sometimes when there is so much maintenance that needs to be done which takes up SO much of our time and energy; it is easy to lose courage and wonder what we’re doing here, but then sometimes we suddenly get a reminder:
The other day we read the latest newsletter from the Hefley’s who once upon a time were students at Eintrøa and are now working with “Water For Life” (www.waterforlife.org), helping communities in need to develop systems for getting safe water and thus showing God’s love in a very practical way. Reading about the work that they’re involved in is certainly a great inspiration, and a reminder of that it is actually possible to make a difference on this planet. The newsletter also served as a reminder for us of why we are here at Eintrøa. The reason that we spend hours and hours on -at times tedious- jobs like mowing lawns, preparing beds, repairing things, cleaning houses, sorting out mistakes in the bookkeeping, changing anode rods etc. etc. is that we believe that Eintrøa is not done yet serving as a place through which people are equipped for life and ministry. We are here because we want to see His Kingdom come and His will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Amen.