Erling Thu

I am a husband, grandfather, writer, speaker, teacher enjoying life as I help people find their place in the covenant community of God's people

I was born in 1942 at the west coast of Norway. I has been married to Solveig the most wonderful wife in the world since 1964. We have had six children together, Levi, Karl Enok, Josef, David, Hanna and Ruth Kristin. Our eldest son, Levi died at the age of 24 in 1990. We have 11 grandchildren and are praying that God will give us even more!
After high-school I attended a five weeks long Bible School and then I started as an evangelist travelling together with a more experienced brother. For ten years I was working with evangelist Aril Edvardsen. At that time I started Operation Youth Teams - to mobilise young people to evangelise their own generation.
Then for two years I was working at the construction of the oil-rig Statfjord A which is now pumping millions of Norwegian Kroner into the bank account of the Norwegian goverment. When I was a crane-driver at the oil-rig I started to write poems and have so far had five books of poems published. I have had seventeen books published altogether.

From the early eighties up to the present time I have been engaged in planting new churches. I am one of the leaders of Christian Fellowship in Bergen and the apostolic nettwork led by Noralv Askeland, Christian Nettverk and part of Ministries Without Borders.

I am the editor of a teaching magazine called FOLK and one of the teachers at Bergen Bible School as well as heading up a distant education programme.