CR Norway Expanding

Our team is just returning from a fantastic conference and team building week in Iveland Norway. CR leader and Norway director Karl Inge Thomassen and his team have been hard at work coordinating a 2-day conference and finalizing the CR materials in Norwegian. Karl has been growing relationships with other churches all around the west, east and south parts of the country and sharing his experience, strength and hope in getting their own programs ready. Our team saw first-hand to see how amazingly ready the Iveland team is in helping spread the good news of recovery throughout the nation. The Iveland team taught almost every session at the conference which included hosting their regular Friday night meeting to demonstrate how a CR program works. By them taking the helm and doing this showed how mature the team has grown as CR leaders and it demonstrated how the international model for CR is one that works. There were 40 other participants in attendance from 7 other churches.

Our team consisted of Dave and Cathy Dent from Union Bridge, Maryland, Tony and Val Turner from Derby, England and Bobby and Dot Arnold from Wimberely, Texas.

With the materials now ready to go to print, it is exciting to see the next phase of this ministry begin to unfold. A few of the churches in attendance were already well into their kickoff strategies and are about to launch. We look forward to meeting up with the team at the annual CR summit and August and continuing our working together in this amazing journey.

Great job Iveland CR team!