Twice today God has impressed this upon my heart, first this morning seemingly out of the blue, I heard God say these words. Then as me and Hanna sat through a preliminary interview to start of the process of applying to officers training I had to quote this word. There are so many Christians and…
Paul the apostle writes that we are called to be ambassadors of Christ. a job that we best take seriously. We do not belong on this planet and when we head back home we want as many with us as possible because this titanic of an earth is sinking rapidly. Today I had to talk…
We are a Schola St. George study group (pending the others membership fees tho). So from now with some sporadic training in the summer we will start in earnest end of august and hopefully finish of our elephant class by late spring/ early summer 2007. This is terribly exciting, I am just waiting for the…
So yesterday we spent the day at the Zoo and today we went to Lido. With Elma, Rebecca, Hanna, Nadja, Angelina, Anja and me we where quite a large group. Angelina was in a good mood as we got there enjoyed 20 minutes in the jumping castle before heading of to the playground where she…
Being a missionary is tricky buissness, the constant tention between infiltrating the national culture and promoting Kingdom culture. Knowing where to draw the line is difficult and sometimes downright impossible. Whenever I am out preaching I am constantly reminded of the fact that I don’t fit in. Wherever I go I am told, It is…
The body follows…. At least that is what I teach in my martial arts class. Today we where at the Riga zoo wich is always a delightful experience. When Angelina was taking her afternoon nap and Anja was getting her umpteenth meal of the day we where sitting down by the zoo playground. One little…
Chivalry is dead someone said when I brought it up. And with it came the death of ethics and morality. Well death doesn’t bother me much since I worship the King of kings the Lord of Life. If chivalry is dead we just have to bring it back. Since I was a little boy I…
I just won an auction on ebay to get me a beautiful practical longsword for a third of the actual retail price! I am extatic, now I just need to figure out how to ship it from England to Riga. The sword itself is 44″ and a perfect sword for practicing Fiore di Libre. I…
Today we had sunshine and 26C It was a fantastic warm day and our apartement is boiling hot we are trying to open windows (That is the ones that we can open without Angelina climbing out through them). But at least it is now summer I sure hope the weather will hold.
I always found it hard to take the image of God as my heavenly father to my heart. I didn’t want a father like mine (one who lived in a different city, that i met once a year) or like my stepfather while I was in junior high who would get drunk and through whatever…
It seems like we have two teenage girls in the house, they are up throwing a party all night and the consecently sleep in in the morning. Anja was giving us some trouble between 01:00 and 04:00 when Angelina promptly woke up and decided it was morning. She refused to fall asleep and finally at…
When our TC Hasse Kjellgren was here a little while ago, he gave us a word from Zeph 3:17 and today Stuart stood up in service and told us that God had said to him, I delight in you. This is hard to accept for a sinner like me, I look at myself and I…
So yesterday I payed my membership to Schola St. George and they are sending the package we need to start a local study group here in Riga.I am like a kid before Christmas full of excitement and expectations, I just can’t wait! The two other guys who are starting with me are not payed for…
After a few days of no sleep, we are all a bit worn, and all the girls have a cold. Which obviously is worse for Anja who is having considerable trouble breastfeeding since she can’t breathe from her nose. Hanna is bedded down and I just pray I won’t be next.
Sometimes I wonder, we have 2000 years of exciting church history behind us with heroes of faith and rolemodels to show us how to live a fantastic Christian life. And tho I don’t think the saints should be prayed to, I think we have a lot to learn not only from the heroes of the…
Had a good day with Angelina today, Hanna is in a bit of pain and needed us out of the house, so I put Angelina in the sling and we went down to Valdemara playground (behind the art museum) where Angelina spent a whole hour pouring sand onto herself, loads of fun. After play time…
Of all my pet peeves in the world is when you reainstall firefox and all your bookmarks are gone, or moving from one computer to another and you have a different set of bookmarks than the one you are used to. I have tried syncing the bookmarks folder on different machines and it never works…
Freedom can mean alot of different things to a lot of different people. To some people freedom means not being locked up, to some it means that you are able to say whatever you want and to others it might mean to be allowed to walk with no clothes. For a Christian however it is…
So we have been a little worried that Anja hadn’t peed yet, but today as I was snugglig her up in my armas after bathing her I felt how I got all warm and fuzzy, well at least warm and wet as a flood came pouring through the towel soaking my shirt. Proudly I called…
The other day I was asked to sign a petition against the Latvian pride parade. Now since I do not understand latvian very well and couldn’t read the exact wording of the petition I might be making a chicken out of a feather here… I am told that last year a pride parade was held…
It’s 03:22 and guess what, I am not sleeping…. as per normal. Anja is holding a birthday vigil to make sure she is celebrated properly. Hanna is asleep, hopefully dreaming of cows and producong milk (as she has none yet). Angelina sleeps also and Anja is resting on my other arm, hopefully fallling asleep. Every…
As I was writing over at our family blog I am realizing that my observations on parenthood carry over to my spiritual life once again. As the list of Anjas needs is very short so is the list of our spiritual needs. Clean, Close and Calories. That is all we need. We need to have…
10:35 pm last night my second daughter Anja Trinity Olterman was born. This morning I went home to pick Up Angelina our oldest to take her to see her brand new sister. Though cautious at first Angelina seems to have accepted our newest family member, however whatever we do for the little one Angelina demands…
We arrived at Ģimenes centers at 19:05 where Hanna was examined and told that she was dilated five centimeters, the contractions where strong and everything was moving along just as it had with Angelina. Hanna was devastated and convinced that she had another 20 hours of labor to go. I was secretly hopefull because I…
Oki so Hanna has been braving the contractions at home for a few hours now and we have decided to leave for the birth clinic. Keep us in your prayers as we go the last mile on this pregnancy! Next time I post I will be the proud father of two and give you all…