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Music Week

This past week, the Narva Corps had a week of music instruction while the young people were on school holiday. For four hours each day, the young people learned brass instruments, vocal, guitar and dance. Here, Cadet Aleksei Burunov gives some pointers to Nikolai.

Captain Evelyn Clark gives individual instrucation to Sonia and Ksenja.

Anneli led vocal warm-ups before choir practice.

And Ilya led the choir ("Alleluia!").

Anneli led a guitar class in the corps office.

On Sunday, they were ready to show some of what they learned. Here is Sonia and Natasha during the sacred dance.

Elizabeth and Sonia dance during the worship service.

Anneli and Natasha during the sacred dance.

The four dancers at the end of the dance.

The fledgling brass band also played two numbers.

The band members received hearty applause from the soldiers and friends in recognition of their efforts. Please continue to pray for our budding musicians!

More pictures from Helsinki

Here's some more pictures from the big youth weekend. The Estonian young people did the "Chair" drama for the auxiliary group on Saturday and during the worship meeting on Sunday.

Anneli, Eero, Kirill and Elizabeth do their parts in the drama.

The Estonian praise band also played on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.

Here is the band in action, with singers Rebeka, Anneli, Elizabeth and Sonia, Eero on guitar, Tim on bass and Evelin on piano.

On Saturday, the stage was set up for the Finnish rock band Park7, so the praise band got to enjoy some cool lighting as they sang.

After the devotional on Saturday evening, the band was asked to play again to encourage everyone focus on Jesus.

At the end of the Sunday meeting, the young people came onstage to wave red, yellow and blue flags. The Estonians like Anneli, Eero and Kirill outshined the Finns (if we can be so humble!).

Natasha found a new young friend (of course!) as she waved her flag!

Helsinki Youth Weekend

Our corps young people spent the weekend in Helsinki for a territorial youth event. There were nine of us from Narva, and we travelled on the ferry with the six from Tallinn. During the trip, Anneli sang karaoke, which the aging fins seemed to really enjoy!

The first program of the weekend was a fun night of games, led by Michael. Here Sonia and Keit try to untangle themselves from a human knot.

Elizabeth and Kirill do their best to untangle their group.

Anneli, Eero and Elizabeth working together.