The last two weeks of January were a huge breath of fresh air for me; a time of watching my students grow and being so proud of them, filling fellowship, and lots of fun too. The dance track served in two towns this mini-outreach. First was Mellhus, were we put on dance workshops and served practically at a public dance school called 'Alive.' The school was a dream that started just a few years ago by a Christian couple with five children. Although the school isn't advertised as a "Christian dance school," it's the families ministry, and they are open about their faith. No doubt this is related to the reason that the school exponentially grows each year and that over 15% of the 4593 occupants of Mellhus walk through the school's doors each week! It was a big blessing for us and them to be able to go and serve them practically, and very exciting for the students of the school to have our students from all over the world come to teach them! Most of the DTS dance track girls, although they have a lot of technical dance training, hadn't taught dance themselves before, and a few didn't even think they would do a very good job or would like to teach dance. They were pleasantly surprised and the experience proved otherwise, and they did SUCH A GOOD JOB (1st video).
(We were hosted for lunch at the top of this thing one day! It rotated like the Space Needle)
(I was able to attend and pray in the back of a baby baptism of a young mom who attended the Alive dance school)The DTS students' teaching experiences continued in the next town, Averøy, where we have gone the last three years on mini-outreach. Here we taught dance in the public schools (2nd video), and lead confirmation classes - classes 9th graders take to in a way confirm/fallow-up the baptism they received as a baby, which is what almost all Norwegians fallow. Among much more, we were able to bring testimonies from our lives and joy!
(African dance with Amy from California, and Hanna from Norway. We also offered line dancing and hip hop)
(Road trip, on our way! DTS student Amy.)
(Some dance track girls with high school students who attended the public school workshops.)
Our dear friends and host family-Amund, Carina, Ivri, and Åste. Thank you.
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