The Fortress Above the Fjord
In 1940, when Nazi forces swept into Norway, a small congregation in the village of Rjukan found themselves trapped between occupation and despair. Their pastor,...
This is stories & illustrations, drawing on 2 Samuel 22:2-3.
In 1940, when Nazi forces swept into Norway, a small congregation in the village of Rjukan found themselves trapped between occupation and despair. Their pastor, Leif Holstad, led seventeen families up a narrow mountain path to an abandoned stone farmstead perched on a granite shelf above the Vestfjord valley. The walls were three feet thick, built by hands that understood what winter demanded.…
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