The Norwegian Family's witnessing successes

During the last weeks our work has proved to be especially blessed as the scope of our activities was tremendously widened. We reached out to many more people.

For the first time we had information desks in different buildings of the University of Oslo. A big poster with the symbol and a table full with principle books and literature inspired the students to stop and ask questions. Some signed their names in order to receive regularly invitations for our lecture evenings in the Center.

Norway Family table on Campus

This arrangement with a special lecture evening in the Center about every 10 days gives valuable experience to the members and at the same time works as a fine method to follow up the many contacts we make in connection with our street witnessing. We usually send out about 30 printed invitations and the response has been encouraging so far. We also succeeded in securing a room for public lectures downtown, where we can seat about 40 people and where the rent is not too high.

These lectures are meant to be more or less introduction lectures, and we are doing different advertising for these, passing out invitation leaflets in the street, having posters around in the schools etc.

A most joyous experience for all the Family members was the information stand we had in the main shopping area downtown, for which we also had received police permission to sell study-material. Ever one of us was grateful for this new opportunity to give witness to the Truth.

There are people coming to the Center every night and 10 have been taught through to the conclusion lately. We have a deep longing for all of them that they might become our real brothers and sisters.

We also found a three room flat very centrally situated in Trondheim, the third Norwegian town, which was opened for the Divine Principle here in Norway. We have already been doing especially well among the students there, and could distribute much material and talk with so many that we are well known on, the different University campuses there.

In the meantime we are eagerly preparing our weekend training program for the coming summer months. For this purpose we have an ideally situated cottage about half an hour’s car drive from Oslo. We plan the training programs for Family members and as intensive courses for people who have already studied the Principle for some time and are positive.

We hope and pray that we will succeed to use all these wonderful possibilities to speed up the restoration work in this country and with this to give joy to our Heavenly Father.