Again, we have had a wonderfulday in Åfjord. We have met some very good people who has given us valuable information. First we met with a believer at the same age as Solveig and myself. His name was Roald and he was from Roan. He had probably been to some of my meetings about 64 years ago. It was such a blessing to talk to him. He knew a lot about the Christian churches and activities in this area. He confirm what we had discovered, that many prayer houses and church buildings had been turned into family houses as the churches had been closed down and no longer existed.

Actually, the spiritual situation in the coastal area is quite sad. The numbers of born again believers have been drastically reduced since the time I was ministering the Gospel in this area. Lots of people have moved away from the small villages scattered along the coast, in the fjords and on the islands. So naturally the numbers also have gone down, but is seems like the free churches and mission organisations have been more severely hit. Roald did not know of any living, born again believer at all in his home village of Roan. The pentecostal church no longer existed and their building was turned into an ordinary house.

But he gave me names of some of the children and grandchildren of the families I stayed with long ago. Now I will be able to contact several of them. One of them is actually living not far from home. He was very helpful and helped us to a better understanding of the spiritual situation of the area which is in a desperate need of revival.

We have spoken a lot of local people. They have all been very open ond friendly. As we have told about the goodness of God and shared the Good News of Jesus Christ, the people have been listening and open to our message. The harvest is plentiful but the workers are few. We feel a real burden for the people in this area. They are kind and friendly, they are longing but do not understand what they are longing for. We will pray that the Lord of the harvest will send out workers to the many villages in this area without any living Christian fellowship. Many of these places don notm even have a state church building. And in the few state church buildings there seemed to be only one service in every three weeks or even more seldom.