Patrik Olterman
A day on the beach
Read more: A day on the beachToday we went to Brighton. It was a day out with Southwark corps and after a bit of confusion regarding buses (and no trains running out of Denmark Hill) we ended up taking the train from Victoria to Brighton. Brighton pier was just beautiful and alltough it was rather cold and really windy it was…
A good day!
Read more: A good day!Today has been a good day. I started out early going to Saint Michaels. We spent seven hours doing talks on the Salvation army and chatting with the kids at the school. It was great. One of my favourite moments was when one of the boys after a really serious discussion on gang violence and…
First day of summer placement
Read more: First day of summer placementYesterday was our last day of curriculum and today we went out into a brave new world. Our first day of summer placement. Through the torrents of rain we braved the streets of London and arrived at Southwark (as this has been our “home” corps while in training it wasn’t exactly new to us, but…
Why do I need sword fighting?
Read more: Why do I need sword fighting?IMG_8545 Originally uploaded by gilbertdeschamps Last week I was asked by one of my students, why do I need to sword fight? The question was asked with the implication: as a Christian, why should I spend my time on this. The short answer was of course ‘You don’t!’ but as with everything, there is more…
Intergalactic towel day 2008
Read more: Intergalactic towel day 2008It’s that time of year again, to don our towels and march out proudly and celebrate Intergalactic towel day! The [[Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy]] makes the following statement about towels A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have. Partly it has great practical value –…
Walking the walk.
Read more: Walking the walk.As Christians we know how important it is to walk the walk and not just talk the talk. Hanna has therefore bravely decided to help raise funds for breastcancer research through walk the walk. Hanna will, together with two other cadets in our session, do a Moonwalk, a late night walk through town in their…
Weapons and Worship
Read more: Weapons and WorshipThe last six months have been a desert experience for me, it seems that every time I am in any kind of spiritual training this is what happens, I feel completely cut off and dry spiritually. One thing I have realised lately though is that one of the reasons I feel so dry is that …
Living by the sword
Read more: Living by the swordHanna and the kids have been in Croatia for Easter break and I have been in London trying to pick the brains of some of the best WMA instructors around. It has been a week of many bruises long hours on busses and trains but oh so worth it! The Exiles The Exiles is a…
Easter and essay madness
Read more: Easter and essay madnessAs time marches on we struggle to meet deadlines on essays and collectaneas and other assignments. If we are not working on an assignment then we are preparing a sermon or a meeting plan. The assignments range widely between biblical studies, pastoral care and mission studies. Because of the difference in subject the styles of…
Lent, placements and essays
Read more: Lent, placements and essaysIt has been a few really hectic weeks here at WBC, as the officer training course relentlessly moves, we try our best to keep up with the demands of full time academic studies. We are handing in work every Friday (or Thursday if it is a preaching for placement) and it seems we will continue…
A cool cat
Read more: A cool catAlmost a year ago I bought my [[cuecat]] through Librarything. Hanna was livid, why would I spend money on a barcode scanner?? As we get ready for our college Collectanea inspection we dusted of our cuecat and scanned in every book in our library into Alexandria, a library program. Now our whole bookshelf is organised…
Sacrifice
Read more: SacrificeThe next leg of our Journey has begun and the essay race is back on, we are constantly looking for new ways to study more efficiently and to coordinate our reading with our essay writing….
Very good indeed
Read more: Very good indeedAs time marches on here at William Booth College we are finally getting some of our papers back. Overall we are both doing good but I think that for Hanna the highlight of the month was getting our new testament papers back. I managed to write a “very good” essay while Hanna’s came back as…
Language and Spirituality
Read more: Language and SpiritualityOne could imagine with a title like that, that this was going to be a real serious post… But alas it is not! Hanna has always wondered how she would do if we where to go as missionaries to Croatia seeing that she doesn’t speak ‘church‘ in Croatian as it turns out we are both…
Happy New Year
Read more: Happy New YearIt’s raining in London. I wish I had some snow to go with my Christmas tree. The girls are going nuts in the apartment with all their new toys, Angelina stealing Anja’s Christmas presents and vice versa. Still trying to realize that it was just a few months ago we moved in at William Booth…
On the discipline of prayer
Read more: On the discipline of prayerThere’s a lot of talk about silent prayer and personally I have always found it hard to pray silently. It’s not that I think praying silently is wrong, I just consider it a higher discipline. I don’t know about you but most of the time when someone asks you to bow your head and take…
Field 5
Read more: Field 5The pressure is constantly on here at college, but some students, who shall remain nameless to protect the “Innocent“, have excelled in field five. Field five is the study of pranks and practical jokes. So far only tutors have been targeted but who knows where this will lead?! Todays comic is somewhat of an inside…
On uniforms
Read more: On uniformsUniforms are obviously discussed a lot, what to wear, when to wear it. Going caroling there have been a bit of confusion about the storm jackets that prompted this cartoon. Please do leave a comment if you enjoyed it (or if you didn’t)
College Bluez
Read more: College BluezCollege seems to be getting on everyones nerves, including mine. I think the biggest issue is the fact that there is precious little time for us to reflect, digest and contemplate all that is being said in class and not the actual fact that we are taught many things that turn our beliefs up side…
SPLODGE
Read more: SPLODGEWe are doing our social placement this week at Springfield Lodge (Splodge) and so far it has been a great experience. It is good to be among youth again and (Un)Normal people. People here at the college are just far to grown up for me. But then again to classify our session as normal is…
And Angelina said that it was good.
Read more: And Angelina said that it was good.Angelina walks in to our bathroom yesterday morning asking, What are you doing? Shaving…. (confused stare from Angelina) I am taking off the hair from my face, I say Angelina nods gravely and says, It is good! There are so many things I want to write, so many things happening with us. College challenges us…
Books, books, books
Read more: Books, books, booksToday I went with Angelina to Wesley Owens in Croydon to attempt to make a dent in our reading list. So far we have been given half a dozen study guides and they contain at least 24 A4 pages with literature to read with roughly 10 books to a page that makes 200+ books that…
Genesis….
Read more: Genesis….First things first.. An appology to all of those of you who are waiting for me to respond to emails facebook requests etc… I am still not fully connected, wich means that I acan steal a few minutes every few days to actually sit at a machine connected to the Internet. We have started College!…
Another week in the UK
Read more: Another week in the UKSo here we are a week has passed, we still have no Internet but at least we can check our email on our blacberries now (Thanx Warren!!) We have nearly unpacked and we are starting to get to know the people in our building. The place is great for the girls and they have found…
I am an alien!
Read more: I am an alien!It is so frustrating to be in a foreign country. We are trying to sort out some internet connection and mobile phones which is proving to be extremely difficult unless you are a citizen. You cannot get a phone without a credit rating, you cannot get a credit rating until you have had a bank…
