First of all, please excuse my simple and rather bad English. English isn’t my native language, and I went to school far before the language got a really important subject in our schools (even at pre-U level when the student’s main subjects were in the Science group...)
Short data about me/us is given quickly: Male, just passed 60, borned and and living in the Western part of Norway. Married for >25 years (same wife of course, shouldn’t need to be mentioned on a Christian site) Together we have two boys (twins - not identical twins, which they semes to regret and do their very best making as little visible as possible...) just passed 15. As God has given me a farm, strictly a farmer - and I don’t feel very much like one
: All the farm’s “innmark”- fields and fenced/cultivated grassland - is run by a tenant farmer while our family is running some minor Ltd companies located in the farm’s former farmbuilding, now rebuilt for offices etc. Ececpt the smallest company, world-wide business and thus dependent on quality internet connectiob, not prime physical location. More work hours than Norwegeian employees’ 37.5 hours/week (50-60 hours/week for each of us, about 10 hours/week in school semesters for each of or boys), but very satisfying work and also a work travel about 2x5 mins/day.
Our boys attends a local 1-10 “friskole” - a kind of schools that accepts quite a few governmental requirements (but may issue their own syllabuses as far as these prepare for the official exam at grade 10 and decide their own employees as far as these are given the same salary/work conditions as in govermental schoools) and thus get 85 % aid for nationwide calculated daily education expenditures, 0 % for the cost of operation the buildings/equipment. Quite interesting - and sad - fact:Close to 96 % of Norwegian children/teens in obligatory education (6-16, thus 1-10- or 1-7-/8-10-schools) attends totally governmental-run schools - and still left-wing Norway are very concerned about the existence of such Norwegian “friskole” schools and those school’s “high number of students” for which the government don’t have total control of what is taught.
Our familiy - both of the boys have a personal belief today. like both of us adults have had for 45-50 years - attends a church not wanting any governmental aid (and control!) and formally non-existing. The building belongs to a foundation as every ground and building in Norway need to have a formal owner, the church “just exist” and have done so for close to 100 years. No membership protocol, let the Lord take care of that book-keeping (and also because a such protocl can be misused by the government, Norwegians wanting to know knows exactly what happened with the Jewisish synagogue protocols in Norway 1940!) No one employed, anything based on voluntary work. No elders formally appointed, still we know quite well who among us handling those tasks and “sheperd the flock”.No doctines (as often said, “we don’t teach anything, the Bible is teaching us” - and our Bible doesn’t contain the word of God, it IS the word of God!). Our understanding of the Bible is mainly quite close to what found among conservative/traditional non charismatic Norwegian Pentecosts, but being closer to to traditional Lutheran churches when talking about baptism in the Holy Sprit and understanding of speech in tougues. Church building plain and simple outside (a small cross onto the wall is everything reminding of a church, else it reminds mostly of and old an closed country school) and having minmal decoration elements inside not to disturb the eye when man is meeting God’s word. Suiitable for purpose and having everyting really needed, but our church avoid anything above that: The money envelopes collected every Sunday are to be used in outreach work and diaconal work in poorer countries rather that in a Norway flooded with wealth
OK, to long already, but got a slight idea of who a I am now? Please feel free to ask further questions.
(And just a remark: It's at present (more than) bed-time in Norway, so please don't expect any response for some hours).
Short data about me/us is given quickly: Male, just passed 60, borned and and living in the Western part of Norway. Married for >25 years (same wife of course, shouldn’t need to be mentioned on a Christian site) Together we have two boys (twins - not identical twins, which they semes to regret and do their very best making as little visible as possible...) just passed 15. As God has given me a farm, strictly a farmer - and I don’t feel very much like one
: All the farm’s “innmark”- fields and fenced/cultivated grassland - is run by a tenant farmer while our family is running some minor Ltd companies located in the farm’s former farmbuilding, now rebuilt for offices etc. Ececpt the smallest company, world-wide business and thus dependent on quality internet connectiob, not prime physical location. More work hours than Norwegeian employees’ 37.5 hours/week (50-60 hours/week for each of us, about 10 hours/week in school semesters for each of or boys), but very satisfying work and also a work travel about 2x5 mins/day.Our boys attends a local 1-10 “friskole” - a kind of schools that accepts quite a few governmental requirements (but may issue their own syllabuses as far as these prepare for the official exam at grade 10 and decide their own employees as far as these are given the same salary/work conditions as in govermental schoools) and thus get 85 % aid for nationwide calculated daily education expenditures, 0 % for the cost of operation the buildings/equipment. Quite interesting - and sad - fact:Close to 96 % of Norwegian children/teens in obligatory education (6-16, thus 1-10- or 1-7-/8-10-schools) attends totally governmental-run schools - and still left-wing Norway are very concerned about the existence of such Norwegian “friskole” schools and those school’s “high number of students” for which the government don’t have total control of what is taught.
Our familiy - both of the boys have a personal belief today. like both of us adults have had for 45-50 years - attends a church not wanting any governmental aid (and control!) and formally non-existing. The building belongs to a foundation as every ground and building in Norway need to have a formal owner, the church “just exist” and have done so for close to 100 years. No membership protocol, let the Lord take care of that book-keeping (and also because a such protocl can be misused by the government, Norwegians wanting to know knows exactly what happened with the Jewisish synagogue protocols in Norway 1940!) No one employed, anything based on voluntary work. No elders formally appointed, still we know quite well who among us handling those tasks and “sheperd the flock”.No doctines (as often said, “we don’t teach anything, the Bible is teaching us” - and our Bible doesn’t contain the word of God, it IS the word of God!). Our understanding of the Bible is mainly quite close to what found among conservative/traditional non charismatic Norwegian Pentecosts, but being closer to to traditional Lutheran churches when talking about baptism in the Holy Sprit and understanding of speech in tougues. Church building plain and simple outside (a small cross onto the wall is everything reminding of a church, else it reminds mostly of and old an closed country school) and having minmal decoration elements inside not to disturb the eye when man is meeting God’s word. Suiitable for purpose and having everyting really needed, but our church avoid anything above that: The money envelopes collected every Sunday are to be used in outreach work and diaconal work in poorer countries rather that in a Norway flooded with wealth
OK, to long already, but got a slight idea of who a I am now? Please feel free to ask further questions.
(And just a remark: It's at present (more than) bed-time in Norway, so please don't expect any response for some hours).
