Erling Thu

Month: May 2026

  • Fosen Mission Update 2

    As we left the hotel, the rain was pouring down. But we had a very good time of prayer before we left and we continued to praise the Lord in the car.

    The weather changed as we were approaching Bessaker, our destination for today. I spent a lot of time in this place nearly 64 years back. We asked God to let us meet people that we could share the Good News with.

    I did not recognize anything from this place. We did not find the church building, and we did not know what to do. At the harbour we saw a stairway leading to a mountain top. I thought that if we climbed the steps we would get a good view that would help us orientate ourselves and perhaps see something that could give us some clue to help us find the place I stayed for nearly half a year.

    But after 500 steps of the steep stairway, I did not see anything that helped me find of what I was looking for. Then two young ladies came walking down the steps and I spoke to them, asking if they were from this area, which they confirmed. Actually they were from Åfjord, where we are staying at the Fosen Fjordhotel. When Solveig joined us in the conversation, they told about som churches in Åfjord. One church was called 3.16. Then I asked if the knew the meaning of that name, they didn’t know. I took the opportunity to share the Good News from Joh 3:16 with them. Praise the Lord we had a wonderful time with them!

    God had heard our prayers! Hallelujah!

  • Longing and praying

    I was reading the words of the apostle Paul this morning: “The longing of my heart and my prayer to God is for the people of Israel to be saved.”

    There is a very close connection between the longing of my heart and my prayer to God. This truth runs throughout the entire Bible. God is the only one that can fulfil the longing of the human heart. He has created us for himself and we find no rest or satisfaction but in him. The longing for the heart is always expressed in prayers to God.

    As Solveig and I are in Fosen on a mission, the longing of our hearts and our prayers are for the precious people of this coastal area to be saved. We are soon leaving our hotel, going to Bessaker, looking for opportunities to share the Good News with people.

  • Fosen Mission Update 1

    What a wonderful day! What a blessed start to our mission to Fosen!

    We have had a wonderful weekend with the covenant community in Trondheim, together with Ruth and Matthew Ling from England and many brothers and sisters from Norway. It was a great blessing to spend some time even with our son Karl Enok. 

    After leaving Karl Enok at the railway station we drove towards Flakk to take the ferry across the broad Trondheim Fjord. We easily found our hotel in Åfjord, Fosen Fjordhotell after a nice drive through this beautiful area. We were praying together in the car and our hearts were full of expectation to the Lord.

    After some rest and a delicious dinner, we decided to go to a village called Roan. I was preaching the gospel there for nearly 64 years ago, and I stayed with a family and they had a small church building just across the road from their farmhouse. In my memory I still had some idea about the place and how to find it. On the way from Trondheim we had some heavy rain but as we were approaching Roan the weather was very nice with even some sunshine.

    A few days before we left home in Stavanger, God gave my dear wife a vision of a house, and as we approached Roan she expectantly was looking for the house.

    I had some memory of the road, and I saw a farmhouse and a building across the road that reminded me of the place I visited, but I was not fully convinced about it. But Solveig shouted: “This is the house I saw!” 

    An elderly man was walking with his dog on the road, so I stopped the car and spoke to him. He was very kind and friendly as I introduced myself and asked about the people at the farm and the house I thought might have been the church building. He confirmed everything. The house Solveig saw in the vision was the house I stayed in and the building across the road had been a church building, but was now turned into an ordinary family home. 

    We thanked him and blessed him, as well as witnessing for him. I only remembered Nikolai, the name of the old grandfather living with his son and his family who was running the farm, but this man knew the names of the entire family and could tell us the name of the one daughter of the family that was still alive.

    I told him about one incident that I will never forget from that church building. I had been fasting for a couple of days. In the afternoon I had held a devotion at the old people’s home. As I walked back to the house I was very tired, but had no time to rest, for I had to minister in a meeting. After a few songs I was called forward to preach. As I stood up, I nearly fainted, but was able to hold on to the pulpit. Then suddenly the power of God came upon me. My tiredness was wiped away in a second and the fresh anointing of the Spirit moved me to speak. It was like a rushing river. I invited people for prayer and several people had a powerful encounter with God through the laying on of hands.

    After the meeting, Nikolai told me that he had seen two tall angels standing, one at each side of me supporting me. I never saw the angels, but definitely I was strengthened by them. I will never forget that experience.

    The man at the road was very moved when we told him about the goodness of God and we were very blessed on our first day in the Fosen peninsula.

    Solveig found the house she had seen, I found the farmhouse and the church building where I preached the Good News. But the best part was witnessing to the elderly man.

  • Mission to Fosen

    We have been given a mission to Fosen. When I finished Bible School i November 1962 I traveled together with av experienced preacher, Samuel Gjertsen, to the Fosen penisula in Trøndelag, Norway. I was only 19 years old, but I felt the call upon my life to be a preacher. The coastal area of Fosen became my first mission field. I spent about half a year in that area.

    Now God has sent me and my dear wife on a new mission to coastal area of the Fosen penisula. Islands and coastal lands are waiting for his word. God will pour out his Spirit in a fresh way in these distant areas. Our mission starts today. I will try to update every day and tell how God is leading us and what is doing. We have no other plan than to be led by the Spirit to meet with the right people and give the the Word of the Lord.

    If we store the commands of God in our hearts, he will give us a long and satisfying life. I am only 83 years of age and still expect many satisfying years in serving the Lord Jesus Christ, my Saviour! I am trying to write his word deep within my heart.

    After sixty three and a half years we are going to my mission field with the Word of God, expecting him to move powerfully as we do what he tells us to do. Walking with God is very exciting!