Patrik Olterman


  • Spiritual Vagabonds

    Spiritual Vagabonds

    A growing group in our society are the spiritual vagabonds, restless souls wandering from fellowship to fellowship and never settling down. Either on the constant lookout for the perfect church or treating organized Christianity like a smorgasboard where you pick and choose the bits you like and move on to the next dish. This begs…

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  • Autumnal ramblings….

    Autumnal ramblings….

    It was soooo hard to get up today and pray, it was like the world was swimming in a thick mist. When the alarm went off at six o’clock it just wasn’t right, the darkness clung tightly to all the windows and there was a chill in the air. Prayers was awkward and I rambled…

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  • I declare WAR!

    I declare WAR!

    I have just had it with the Devils schemes on my life and on people close to me. So this morning I officially declared war on the devil in my [[Oikos]] (the network around me, my family and closest friends). So I hereby vow, for every family that is shattered in my vicinity we will…

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  • Drown me in your Love

    Drown me in your Love

    Drown me in your Love Love me tlll I die Die from this world world of corruption corruption of Love Love me till I drown Drown in your Love

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  • It is time!

    It is time!

    It is time for Harvest in Latvia NOW! God told me this morning to stop being silly and just go out on the field and harvest, the time is now, the place is Latvia, are you ready?

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  • Accepted!

    Accepted!

    I just got a phonecall I have been waiting for, for some time now. The official response from the Salvation Army Officers school assesment conference. We have been accepted for Officers training and will if all goes well start our training in the fall 2007 in London Where we would be trained for two years…

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  • Dance with me!

    Dance with me!

    The past days I have been working hard to get my prayer life in order, getting up at 06:00 every morning to get an hour of prayer in before the family wakes up and the workday starts. It has been great, apart from the fact that everything possible has happened to make sure I wouldn’t…

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  • Hanna is ill

    Hanna is ill

    Hanna has been throwing up all night and she is not keeping any liquids, please pray for her as this is double hard for her, breastfeeding Anja at the same time. The silver lining is that I get to spend some quality time with Angelina today even tho she is being impossible, sensing that something…

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  • Guitar trouble
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    Guitar trouble

    So my electric guitar is singing on it’s last chorus. The head is cracked and I have to retune it between every song since its barely holding together at all. Prices for fixing it is higher than a new guitar so we will have to invest. For some this might be a prayer answered but…

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  • Not for you

    Not for you

    As I was driving to Bauska today for a longsword workshop I was passed by a Lexus doing at least double my speed. On the license plate was the tantalizing message “NOT4YOU” Isn’t it just a typical sign of todays society, the here but not any further mentality. It’s the I am better than you…

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  • YOU are the Salvation Army!

    YOU are the Salvation Army!

    Lats week as I was being interviewed by the vice principal of the Swedish officers school she asked me a question that ground me to a mental halt, – What is the Salvation Army, she asked? I started to think, then I started describing the army, the way I think it should be, not nessesarily…

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  • Prayer cover

    Prayer cover

    It is a wondrous thing, having people pray for you…. last thursday when we where having our interviews for officership we had many people praying for us. People in Riga where praying and people in Sweden both from our corps and Nationally and that day everything went fantastic. Even better than fantastic, Angelina was behaving…

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  • The wonderful thing about prejudice

    The wonderful thing about prejudice

    Before me and Hanna went to sweden to visit the officers school we where full of prejudice, we thought the school would be dry and boring, the treaching dull and the teachers likewise. But we where wrong, the teaching we recieved at OS was excellent and the teachers where lively and engaging. We where challenged…

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  • Our week at Ågesta

    Our week at Ågesta

    Just home now from an exciting week in Sweden. Hanna, the girls and I have spent one week at the Swedish Officers school in Ågesta to, among other things, be interviewed for possible officership. It was a fantastic week in Sweden with sunshine everyday and the beautiful views of the Stockholm archipelago where the OS…

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  • Riga 1 youthgroup, Rocking

    Riga 1 youthgroup, Rocking

    This friday the Riga 1 youthgroup was transformed, having had between five and eight people showing up suddenly this Friday we had 24 people. What a fantastic night, worship rocked, tho we managed to break two guitars and play dreadfully out of key. Still everyone was having a good time and Gods word was shared!

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  • Longsword group kick off.

    Longsword group kick off.

    So last night we finally got going with the longsword training. It has been long coming and I have waited long for it to start. We where seven people and I do not think we could be many more in the hall unless we learn how to be more efficiant with space. We did some…

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  • Self-control

    Self-control

    Everytime I teach on Love, Joy and or passion I run into the same thing, someone comes up and tells me that, while it is true that love is joy and passion, love is also self control and you could surely use some. Many times I just take that as just criticism and get really…

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  • One way, website!

    One way, website!

    To promote the youthwork in Riga 1 we have now put up a one way website where the youthgroup leaders will be blogging about the youthmeetings and their Christian walk. It is really exciting when the youth are doing all the work, it always end up better than I could have done it … Check…

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  • Compassion on wheels

    Compassion on wheels

    One of my pet peeves is that the church seldom produces quality promotion material wich sends the message that our message is not really that important, not so with this fantastic video It really sends the message of the army, sends the underlying message that this is important/professional and it spells out, WE CARE! and…

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  • One way

    One way

    Kicking of the “Riga 1” youthgroup for the fall yesterday and what a start we had. We had six new people there and three of them where not girls, wich as you know is a minor miracle here in Latvia. The Friday night group has been dubbed “One Way” so therefore our first message was…

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  • Longswordclasses moved to tuesdays

    Longswordclasses moved to tuesdays

    Due to the busy schedule at the Riga1 corps we have chosen to move the Schola saint George class to tuesdays at 18:45 and we will therefore be starting on tuesday the fifth! Be there or …..

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  • Retorics does not a good teaching make.

    Retorics does not a good teaching make.

    I was teaching all day at one of the Latvian summer camps in Ligatne. We had a good time and I got to teach the same teaching four times in a row as the camps participants was divided up in four groups. I was teaching on relationships and specificly the road from singleness to married…

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  • Ordinary heroes

    Ordinary heroes

    Staying in Croatia, where the temperatures sometimes climbed up to 38 degrees celcius in the shade, we stayed in with the clima some days and watched television. Some of our favorite shows where showing reruns and it hit me that one of the qualities I like in a TV show is that they have characters…

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  • Home sweet home.

    Home sweet home.

    We have now had our fill of vacationing and are happy to be back in Latvia. It was very nice to bed down in our own beds and wake up with a freshly made Latte made in our own kitchen. Back on the job now I am getting ready to launch the fall program for…

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  • An idle vacation post…

    An idle vacation post…

    I happened by a friend who needed help with some computer stuff, so here I am in front of a computer first time on my vacation.So far it has been good 27-40 degrees in the shade and a constant 26-27 in the water. Angelina Has started bathing a little bit carefully daring to walk into…

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