Agust Olafsson – Every Nation Missionary to Iceland
Discovering love and joy through honesty, logic, and courage. It was a 4.5-inch black-and-white TV combined with a cassette player. Brilliant, I thought. We can watch the news on this thing! This was in the autumn of 1995 when my girlfriend Kolbrún and I moved into a flat in Reykjavík, and this little TV came … Read more
It was an unusually long line at the hardware store, shaped like the letter Y. I was at the top left. Icelanders are notoriously bad at forming lines. Probably because our forefathers sailed from Norway to Iceland, choosing to live independently on a highly active volcanic rock in the middle of the North Atlantic Ocean, … Read more
This was several years ago. I had decided to spend 2 hours walking in our small town and ask God for opportunities to engage in meaningful conversations that would lead to the gospel. My time was almost up when I returned to our small church to use the bathroom. I only had 15 minutes left … Read more
I was not expecting 2020 to be what it has been. Who did? It really has been a season of change. Earlier this week I had a video interview with Matt Rasch who lives and ministers in Marseille. He shared how God gave him the word “Embrace change” at the beginning of the year. This … Read more
My son David and I met them last month on our drive to north Iceland where David was playing a soccer tournament. She was from Germany but he from Hungary. I have enjoyed the many conversations I have had with young Europeans hitchhiking in Iceland. I wondered if this conversation would be any different. As … Read more
A whole nation with a mindset of resilience, optimism, and survival – and all of that communicated with just one word? Yes, the Icelandic word REDDAST is all of that and more. I had the opportunity to share devotions at The Masters Institute this morning, the seminary in Minnesota that I graduated from back in … Read more
It’s Easter Sunday, April 12th, 2020. Guðni Th. Jóhannesson, the president of Iceland, is addressing the nation on TV during the trying times of the COVID-19 pandemic. To encourage people to continue doing the right thing he uses the Icelandic word “REDDAST.” There is a quiet confidence to the president because he knows that the … Read more
