Tanja @tanjaostman@dingdash.com

Have a blessed 2nd Sunday of Advent! We have had below freezing point for weeks already, but very little snow. It's -5°C and this is the lightest it gets by noon, as the sun barely rises above the horizon and we have darkness for 20 hours a day. It's the opposite around midsummer.

We went to an old day Christmas market in a neighboring village, where they have an open-air museum. As you can see we don't have much snow yet.

#Finland #Lapland #winter

Is this correct @tymektt ? Looks like Finnish grammar... 😅

#WW2 #Finland

#energycrises #Finland #Europe

For appr. 15 years I’ve been longing for a more NT way of doing church, and was excited when I discovered books about it. But where I live most Christians are more concerned about traditions and to be faithful to their relatives (who often belong to the same church), than abut seeking the truth. Yesterday I was asked for the first time in all these years if I want to teach on the topic of Organic Church/House Church, and it made my happy! It was in a home group we joined a year ago, with other unvaxxed – not because we felt superior, but because we were excluded from the rest of society. They even implemented covid passports for a while.
I share some PPT slides with English quotes, and books that I recommend on this topic (there are many more books, but I own these). I included BTJ books by @sinbach in the list – not that they explicitly teach about house church, but they show examples of people who gather in underground house churches, even if they might not know that it's Biblical.

It's a clown world! 🤡

I have heard no apologies, from anybody (social media friends, relatives, authorities, companies, politicians etc) in Finland yet. Are they too proud, or do they still believe the official narrative? 🤔

Sunday evening 'hygge'. The days are already short and dark, and it's getting colder outside.

"Americans have recently spent more money buying Halloween costumes for their pets than the amount given to reach the unreached."

The Finnish schools have autumn break, so we decided to visit Northern Sweden again, since it only takes 3,5 hrs by ferry from Vasa (Fin) to Umeå (Swe). On our way to our friends in Luleå we stopped by in Skellefteå, where they have a unique hotel - one of the tallest wooden buildings in the world (20 floors): The Wood Hotel by Elite.

Soon the last leaves have fallen off the trees. We're heading towards winter here in Finland. I pray this winter won't be as cold as last winter, since the cost of electricity has increased several times. It will cost us a little more than one thousand euros a month, if we will have the same temperatures. That's too much, since we have a high inflation going on when everything is getting more expensive, but we still have the same income. I have already heard of Finns that have to sell their houses, because they know they won't be able to afford to keep their homes.