Sámi nuorat Jesusin- the gathering

Our friends arrived on Saturday, so we shared about life and the need for living personal relationship with God instead of religion.

No empire spirit and the language barrier in the gathering with Sámi people; though the core group consisted of five people, we used flexibly five languages: English, Norwegian, Swedish, Saami and Finnish!

On Saturday morning we as a group facilitated the meeting in a small church. I spoke on the need to know God afresh every moment, because he's like the wind that no one knows where it comes from and where it goes. And the Kiwi missionary family now moving back to the other side of the world was just perfect example of "...so is everyone born of the Spirit". It's so easy for us to start to keep "household- gods", that we try to keep happy and forget about the Lord who wants to have all of us, and wants us to do what he says and live for him, not just to try to keep him pleased. We can't store the wind in a box, so that we can watch it and be reminded of how He is. Moment we do it, the wind has lost it's "windiness", and we have started to build religious system instead of FOLLOWING him.

I'm going to miss the life style there is in Kauto: nothing is dependant on time/clock, and like one man said to us smiling: "I've never known stress, what is it?"

After the gathering we spent one more day with the Kiwi missionary family, who are leaving Kauto after living there for one and half years. They told us a lot about their time there, and I also learned a lot about being missionary with a family by watching their kids in action. I felt very grateful for having met them.

Later in the evening I experienced a personal adventure: I was given a piece of raw reindeer meet so we could cook it for dinner! No idea which part it was, no idea how to prepare it...and I don't think reindeer with pasta is the most traditional Sámi food, but it was good anyway. In the night we talked with a young pioneering Sámi woman Lena a lot about God's ways, calling to indigenous peoples, using joik to worship God and how to deal with religiosity without insulting people.

Comments

[sara Victoria Andersen]

familien Short?! :)

[Niina]

Yes, the family Short. They're in Australia now, and hopefully well. Really learned a lot from them!