From Jan

Dear friends!

Thanks again a lot for the wonderful days together once again up at Lost Antler Ranch! It was a pure joy! What a wonderful Nordic Walking fellowship with 1/3 of the participants taking part in our morning walk and prayer on the top of the hill!

And when I am reading what Ryan put on the web from our Final Benediction, my heart is filled with gratitude for the grace and embrace I have experienced together with you, my friends! We for sure will harvest from this for years to come! It will be interesting to se what happens with our friends around the world and how to relate and work together with them in the future!

The days in St. Louis has been really exciting and interesting! During last weekend, International Director Walt Winters took me to a huge car-show on Friday and then to a nice sight-seeing at his place in Washington, an hour drive south of St. Louis. During this week, I have had a lot of discussions and meetings with different representatives of The Lutheran Hour Ministries of how to "unite airforce and groundforce"
in reaching our in our urban settings! And I have told them a lot about Global Learning Community and how we work in Strategic Planning Processes in order to gain ownership in the whole body of Christ in implementing our Strategies and Goals! It has also been a joy to show them our blog, and I know they are pretty impressed!

Yesterday I by the way had a lunch-meeting with the President of The Lutheran Church Missouri, Dr. Jerry Kiesnick, and his International Director. That turned out to be a very good meeting where I presented our way of thinking and the current Church-life situation in Norway! In the morning I had been to Axel's website and found my "KIngdom Report", which you remember, Sam, from when we where together at the "Transform Berlin" in February last year! I downloaded that, took a copy and handed over to them when we finished the meeting! If you are interested, you
still can find it at:
http://www.transforum-berlin.de/2006/kingdom_report_norway.pdf

To morrow I leave for Chicago, and because of the alarm for a strike in the British Airways, I will have 24 hours in that city waiting for the flight to London Friday night! But that gives me an excellent opportunity to visit my good friend Wayne Pederson who Glenn knew very well from his time in the Mission America Coalition. Now Wayne is a Vice President at Moody, in charge of the Moody Radio! Added to the pleasure of visiting him and his wife Norma, Moody Radio will do an interview with me for their Friday "Prime Time America", focusing on Church-life in Norway, especially the urban outreach and transformation! I also sent the "Kingdom Report" from Berlin to the actual Moody-producer, and I am looking forward to highlighting this in such an influential radioprogram as this apparently is!

Well, my dear friends, I have to close now, because Walt Winters in a few minutes will take me home to his house for dinner! But I just wanted to give you a little report of what a great value this week has been and still will be to me and also for the dream that we share together of reaching out with the Kingdom in transforming cities and people all over the world!

Jan