Ilulissat Briefly

Kurt and Liz, the Danish couple standing in at the church overwelmed me with grace. They brought me to the church building where they are staying in the home of the Danish your worker they are standing in for next to the sanctuary and I got to stay in the sanctuary building in the 'princess room' - the pritty little room with a balcony and a view of the bay with it's spectacular icebergs. Ilulissat is at the mouth of a fyord that has one of the most productive glaceurs (please forgive all spelling problems - the Danish computers jast don't have spellchecks that work for me) in the world, and my view consisted of a beautifull bay with a deep blue see and little Ice mountains drifting accross the view all day long.   On the first evening I was given wale to eat... Deap read meat only vaguely distinguishable from beef. After dinner one of the Innuit leaders of the congregation and her sister that was visiting from Nuuk came to meet me. They both spent a year of their youth one one of the OM ships so they had traveled widely and could help me understand Greenland a bit from an international point of view. They were also telling testimonies of how little revivals were breaking out all over Greenland. The whole evening was just so full of the Highest Praise for the Lord's goodness and breakthroughs inthis nations, that I went to bed with that special peace that comes by hearing of the fruit of faith.   The next morning I wondered out to the bay area and climbed onto a little hill to find an Icberg almost the size of the hill I was on in the water on the other side. This was but a fortaste of what Kurt and Liz showed me in the fjord later that afternoon! Words really fail me in trying to describe such a landscape of stationary violence in ice. They move almost inpercievably and as they melt big pieces fall off them accompanied by a sound like thunder. These sounds made one feel like in a war zone, but when you look at them they don't move. Kurt said when you hear the sound its already a few seconds too late to see the action. And its always on the other side.   It was also in Ilulisat that I encountered the dogs first. Kurt sais there are 11000 souls in Ilulissat, 5000 people and 6000 dogs. It seems as if every family has there own pack of about 10. These dogs are tied to with leads of between 1 and 3 meters to pegs in the ground outside town. Each dog has its own peg and circut and they are mostly prevented from being able to reach each other because of the fighting. They are fed once a day to the sound of the most boistrous jodling from the dogs. In summer 500g in winter 700g. They stay in the same place all year round. In summer they go nowhere. In winter they are used for slays once or twicw a week.   That evening we had dinner with an inuit couple from the church. The fellowship was very sweet and filled with His love.