kolmapäev, september 15, 2004
Caught Between the Past and the Future
Our Regional Commander, Major Derek Tyrrell, knows we have an editorial background and how interested we are in starting an Estonian-language Salvation Army publication. So he showed us some War Cry magazines from the 1930s. It was so exciting to be able to hold a piece of history in our hands! One thing we found out was that the Tartu Corps used to be at Tähe 124. This is the same street that our apartment was on (and where the cadet will be moving one week from today!).
So today we went out, trying to find the old property. And there is no such number. Tähe doesn't even go up that high on the even side of the street. And it's factories there, not really a place where a corps would probably be. I was so disappointed!!
Now Tim will try to see if his history teacher from his classes this summer can help us find an old map of the city, and give us an understanding of how the numbering worked 65 years ago.
I feel like we can't quite find the past here. There are very likely old ladies who attended Sunday School at Päästearmee. And somewhere here there are properties that were used as Salvation Army corps, open-air meeting locations, etc.
And we are not quite in the future yet, either. Plans are being made to have our offficial corps opening Easter weekend. It was exciting to have the Territorial Commanders, Colonels Lydholm, with us on Monday and think about where we would like to have the meeting, where we might have an open-air and March of Witness.
Captain Dan Henderson, who with his wife Anya are pioneering the work in Narva, the Russian-speaking city in Estonia, keeps telling me to enjoy this time. It will go by fast and soon we will once again have people who need us and depend on us.
I'll spare you my theological reflections on being in both the "already" and "not yet" -- at least for now!
Evelyn
So today we went out, trying to find the old property. And there is no such number. Tähe doesn't even go up that high on the even side of the street. And it's factories there, not really a place where a corps would probably be. I was so disappointed!!
Now Tim will try to see if his history teacher from his classes this summer can help us find an old map of the city, and give us an understanding of how the numbering worked 65 years ago.
I feel like we can't quite find the past here. There are very likely old ladies who attended Sunday School at Päästearmee. And somewhere here there are properties that were used as Salvation Army corps, open-air meeting locations, etc.
And we are not quite in the future yet, either. Plans are being made to have our offficial corps opening Easter weekend. It was exciting to have the Territorial Commanders, Colonels Lydholm, with us on Monday and think about where we would like to have the meeting, where we might have an open-air and March of Witness.
Captain Dan Henderson, who with his wife Anya are pioneering the work in Narva, the Russian-speaking city in Estonia, keeps telling me to enjoy this time. It will go by fast and soon we will once again have people who need us and depend on us.
I'll spare you my theological reflections on being in both the "already" and "not yet" -- at least for now!
Evelyn
