Woops....

Our plans were to update this blog every week....but hey....a month since last time. Time is flying by, and we try to hang on to every that happens.. Leifs new work is going well, and he enjoys it a lot. Even commuting almost every day isnt that bad...Michelle is getting more energy by the minute and enjoys the thought of soon trying to start working again. Kids enjoy snow. Period. And today Uma got her finger and toe nails painted pink....extatic!
Leifs job you can follow closer at www.pinseforalle.no or www.azusaeurope.com
We hope to be better with the updates...

Some pictures from a day out a week ago.
Enjoy. We have lots of snow...
Please tell us how you are doing.

God bless....by the way my favourite song this week is "Friend of God" by Israel Houghton.

The Pirates are here!!!!!

Elias was 5 years old at the 4th of this month, and today we threw a party on for the old folks...a pirate party...have a look on the pics. Most of our family gathered but Great Grandma, Håkon & Irene, Benedikte & Trygve, Oldebess + Sarah & Daniel was missing... We had a good party and ate a lot of sweets....muffins with birthday candles on.....Elias was enjoying it, so did we. Have a look and laugh.....

Happy New Year!!

From all of us to all of you..... a happy new year. We hope you will have a year that exeeds your expectations in every possible way. But remember one thing. Live in the reality of today and walk with God... dont pretend....
Just came back from a worship concert. Over the weekend we wer able to catch up with Abraham Laisina, a good friend of ours. He also brought his family this time, so we met them for the first time. Abraham is a singer, psalmist and worship leader etc. and together on stage, we had a great time. Gods presence and lots of new songs!
The weather is as many of you Norwegian have noticed...not the same procedure as last year.... 4 plus and pouring rain. My goal for New years eve was to show our friends our beautiful Oslo....how to do that with fog, rain and darkness? Just ask me, we did it in three hours, and the people were satisfied! We had a good meal at Michelle and mine`s favourite restaurant: Mr Hong...try it if you havent been there....
It has been a memorable New Years eve....in a different way....we stood out in the rain in the middle of Oslo trying to spot some fireworks. At least we heard a lot. The Alarm went off in church at midnight, and was on for over 30 minutes...that was a turn off...However God is found whenever we seek him, so it turned out well.
For now, I just would like to say Good night, and we will write more soon. Time is soon 04.25 am, so I better go to bed.

God bless you for now!

this is it....

This Xmas eve was the last church service we did as pastors. Very strange, sad and challenging. Felt very odd to be honest. Not possible to describe the feeling.
However, life will go on anyway. And when one door closes, God normally opens at least one more. Thats what He has done for us lately.
Please follow the news on this blog, and I will share some amazing things about what God has done the last few weeks....

Hope you have had a good Xmas eve..

Xmas Greetings from the Skaugs

Well here we are again. Soon a brand new year.
2006 has been a very special year to us. Elias learned how to ride his bike at Modum Bad (which is a place of recreation and therapy). The whole stay at Modum has been the most impacting episode for us this year. We had a break from normal life for three months and received help to get on with our lives after some really rough years with Michelles depression. We had the chance to put away what we did and had three months with therapy, free time, familiy time, silence, intimacy, pain and joy. We didnt think that three months would turn everything up side down, but this has helped us to look more bright on our future.

Other things that have happened the last two months have turned our life up side down when it comes to church life. From January we are not pastors anymore, which has taken some time to digest, but we are getting there... Leif has also resigned from his other job this week at the Skovly-Group, which means a lot of challenges..



But, this may sound like a year with only mourning, sorrow and grief....However thats not the whole story!
We have had a lot of extra time together as a family. Done things we havent had much time for before. Elias rides his bike, Uma talks, talks, talks and talks.....and we try to hang in there...
Leif started a Gospel Choir (INC.) this fall, which both of us adults enjoy alot. It is inspiring, and the choir already sounds like something else...!
Leif is now involved in something called “pentecost for all” (see www.azusaeurope.com for more info) and has met a lot of people who has turned out to be of great encouragement to us.
From January Leif will work at Filadelfia Oslo as responsible for the music ministry until September. The rest of his time he will spend at Morgenstjernen AS where he will work with marketing communications og make sure that “Pentecost for all” will reach out to all the citizens in Norway throughout the year 2007.



It is both scary and exciting to walk into the new year with nothing known when it comes to work etc, but we believe that God is with us as he has been all throughout this year. We also tend to relax more when we can put our hand in the Creators hand...

Today has been another chilled out day

but extremely hot....even if the sun wasnt shining it was boiling...
I love Michelle, she loves me. The Kids are enjoying the summer with playing in cold water, jumping in our small, very small pool.
Went on a BBQ to Michelles parents and had a great time..
Watching a strange movie called the third weel on the wagon....strange...

Thats all folks.

If you want to see some pics and some more about us..

www.skaugs.com
This is our website...frequently updated.

And if you want to see where we attend church go to:
www.filadelfiamysen.com

Good luck!

We will now try to be more frequent on this blog...

Finally we have arrived to Mysen for good. After three months at Modum on a good break, it`s great to be back in the real world. At the mo we are enjoying holidays...lazy days doing whatever we like.
Today we went to Oslo with my granddad and bought....Model TRAINS....could you guess that....we had a great time...we also bought a model plane that can fly...got 4 propellers and crashed 4 times..so now we have to buy some more...cant figure out how to fly this thing...
Anyway, enough for today...sun is shining and we have time off!! How are you?

Welcome - velkommen!

This is the first post ever on this site....welcome to this, and we hope to develop it as we go further into this blogging setting...
We are alive and look forward Xmas...