Now,
those of you who are reading this post and have some connection to the
Evangelical Covenant Church and like to know a bit more about our
Swedish Covenant heritage, here's a really cool thing about the town Karlskoga: it's the hometown of Maria Nilsdotter, who is the
grandmother of David Nyvall, the first dean of North Park Seminary,
where both Steve and I have studied in preparation for ministry
service. So, after our classes were done with the Acts 29 students, what does one do? Of course,
there's fika (coffee and a snack to catch up on the day, which also proved to be a welcome break after 6 hours of teaching), then a walk
through the woods. And on that walk, we met up with another woman from
the folkhögskola who were so excited to meet us, hearing we were
Americans. And then, when she figured out we were from the ECC, she
said "I'll give you a tour of "Mor i Vall": the original school room of
David Nyvall's grandmother. We finished our walk in the woods, and
then had our own personal tour of the school room, which today also
houses a lot of Mission Covenant church history. Check it out.....
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| The physical building, schoolhouse, that David Nyvall's grandmother taught in |
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| Nyvall's grandmother's heritage: teaching children who had no possibility to go to school |
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| Nyvall's book, My Father's Testament, which is referenced in his postcard from North Park in Chicago! |
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| 1916
version of a missionary thank you letter from North Park College in
Chicago ~ under the photo is the caption "Min faders testament" ~
Nyvall's book |
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| Steve holding the Nyvall postcard from North Park College ~ |
All in all, this trip was exactly how God had planned it. Great sessions with the students, a bit of Covenant history, and another lesson in trusting God for the outcome.
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