Iceland Project

The main city in Iceland with over 100,000 people is Reyjkavik. This is where we stayed and where the University is.This is a picture of the state Lutheran church. We actually went to the English service there on Easter. Even on Easter there was hardly anyone there. The state church does not have really any effect on the people there-it is just a tradition-get baptized as a baby, get confirmed there, and then go maybe on Christmas and Easter. That is why we went to Iceland-to help the few real, passionate christians in Iceland to start a revival and plant real, active churches. This church is in the center of the city so it helped us get our bearings often. Its bells rang every quarter of an hour. We were able to go to the top of it and see for miles around us and the bells rang while we were up there much to the enjoyment of the kids. The service we went to was more of a cutural concert to be enjoyed-the organ and the woman who sang were just beautiful, but as far as encouraging my relationship to God, it fell flat.
This is another church out in the country outside the city. It is built near ruins of a church and political center from the 1200's.









This is a geyser-Iceland is on top of very hot water hence where they get all their hydrothermic energy and hot water from. We stood very close to it and watched it
bubble until finally it shot up in the air as seen in this picture. I found them fasinating. If you touched the water even after it was on the ground it would burn you. We watched it go up several times and it surprised us every time. We are so impressed with how amazing God is in His creations of these natural phenomena.

This is the waterfall we had the privilege of going to. It was also spectacular but we did have to
watch the children like hawks as there was no fence or barrier between them and the falls. We saw a beautiful rainbow in them. There was a story about a woman who was protesting the damming of this river and she jumped off these falls in protest. Bill was filming us and asked us if any of us would like to volunteer and be like her. We of course could not hear him over the roar of the falls so we all waved at him. But we are back safe and sound in America.