{"id":36118,"date":"2025-10-09T15:12:00","date_gmt":"2025-10-09T13:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bcc.fincaalamo.es\/60-with-friends-from-10-churches-at-finca-alamo\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T12:36:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T10:36:55","slug":"60-with-friends-from-10-churches-at-finca-alamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bcc.fincaalamo.es\/en\/60-with-friends-from-10-churches-at-finca-alamo\/","title":{"rendered":"60+ with friends from 10 churches at Finca Alamo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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On the night of August 29, two friendly and enthusiastic couples arrived at Finca Alamo. <\/strong>They had taken responsibility for the first 60+ trip<\/strong> after Finca Alamo had been rebuilt and renovated over the past two years. These four were Toril and Per Gunnar Frantzen from M\u00e5l\u00f8y and Ester and Ole Kulterud from Valdres. They arrived early to prepare a good welcome for the rest of the group that arrived a day and a half later. <\/p>\n

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Toril and Per Gunnar Frantzen<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/a> <\/div>\n <\/div>

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Ester and Ole Kulterud<\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/a> <\/div>\n <\/div><\/div>\n\n

Per Gunnar had volunteered at Finca Alamo in 2024 and was thrilled. When he learned that there was a free week in September this year, he jumped at the chance – together with others – to fill the place with 60+ friends. <\/p>\n

M\u00e5l\u00f8y managed to fill some of the 17 rooms. Valdres was then contacted, and they quickly responded with several couples. Soon more people were interested, resulting in a group of 30 friends from 9 different churches. M\u00e5l\u00f8y, Valdres, Oslo, Molde. Hallingdal, Stord, T\u00f8nsberg, Eiker and H\u00f8nefoss. With the hosts from Drammen Sande, there were actually 10 churches gathered.<\/em> <\/p>\n

It was an extra pleasant and edifying week. It quickly became apparent that this way of putting together a 60+ trip was very successful. There were many good, pleasant and edifying conversations and get-togethers that were primarily characterized by gratitude. Here were friends who have known each other since their youth, but perhaps had little contact. When you meet more than 50 years after you were young, there is a life lived in between. There have been trials of different kinds, and the gospel has worked in different ways, bringing out grateful hearts despite the fact that many things may not have turned out the way you dreamed of when you were young.<\/em><\/p>\n

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The love for each other and for the body of Christ was very clear and noticeable both in pleasant activities, meals and in the edification.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

During the week, the group visited Estepona with its beautiful beaches and old town, the white town of Casares and Gibraltar with its cliffs and monkeys. Restaurant visits were also included, but most meals were prepared in the kitchen at Finca Alamo by skilled cooks in the group. <\/p>\n

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There was a sense of well-being, humor, seriousness, warmth and gratitude to be found whether you met friends in the kitchen, in the pool, on the beach or looking for wild boars that had visited the garden at night. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The evenings with home-cooked dinners and lots of other goodies, edifying and grateful speeches, funny stories and poems, songs and music, good conversations and getting to know each other’s lives and hearts. it has created memories for life!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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We asked Tore Gangs\u00f8:<\/strong><\/h4>\n

What impact does a trip like this have on the community of friends?<\/p>\n\t\t\n