We were 18 people altogether: The HARP Parent, Andy Johnson, the HARP committee, and every region (apart from one) was represented by either one or two HARP regional leaders.

We officially started our meeting at 9am on Saturday, after a morning of HDH and breakfast. After some informal introductions of each other, each region gave a PowerPoint presentation about their HARP situation. We realized that there have actually been a lot of things going on all over the country that we were just unaware of due to lack of communication. This was one of the main points that we emphasized during the weekend. Everyone needs to report before and after all their regional activities to the HARP committee in order for the national HARP body to function well.

Yoshiko Chellew gave a presentation about the National HARP goals, plans and new structure for the year, as well as some guidance for the HARP regional leaders. Then we took some group photos outside before lunch.

The afternoon session was more practical and interactive. Rita Z. was invited to talk about Youth Ambassadors for Peace, as this is our biggest goal for HARP this year. She explained how this is the direction we need to take now in our youth area, and gave some advice about how each region could get started.

It was a challenge for everyone to fully grasp the concept as it’s venturing into very different territory from what we have been used to in HARP. The important thing, Rita emphasized, is that everyone just starts something. No matter what it is, the concept will become clearer and we will become more confident as we go. This is certainly an area that will need the support of the Youth Pastor and other parents as well however. She also gave a short explanation about how regions should aim to register HARP as an official youth group, in order to become more of an open club for other young people to join, and to receive governmental funding as well.

We had two group discussions after the talk; one to brainstorm how everyone could start the YAFP work in their regions, and the other to generate some ideas for the God’s Day HARP workshop and make suggestions for the year as a whole. We ended our meeting with some closing remarks from Andy Johnson and Yoshiko Chellew, and the rest of the evening was open for everyone to spend time with each other, either talking, playing card games, or watching a film. Our final goodbye was after attending HARP service together the following day.

It was a successful meeting which set the tone and direction for the year, and clarified all the responsibilities, as well bringing everyone together to feel that we’re working as one big team for the same goal.

Thank you everyone for your support to send your HARP regional leaders to the meeting, and we hope to achieve great things this year together with you.

Swedish HARP has had a workshop in Kloten, Sweden during the autumn holidays. It was held from the 27th to the 31st of October 2007. The motto for the workshop was: "Style your life". We called it a Culture Workshop because of the culture related activities. We were 25 people in total. The staff was mostly 2nd Generation, since almost all parents were working. The 17 participants were split up into 4 teams.

The workshop schedule included experiential learning, Creative Groups, Sports, a Halloween Party, Family Evening and other fun and interesting activities. Everyone had a good experience and is looking forward to have a similar workshop in October, next year.

During the last month of October we had a couple of activities planned for our German HARP. Since we're having different autumn break-dates all over Germany, we decided to have our annual autumn-workshops at three different places and dates, one in Düsseldorf (Northern Germany), one in Frankfurt (Central Germany) and one in Nürnberg (Southern Germany).

In addition we planned to hold our purity-seminaries at the beginning of each workshop, so that everyone could easily take part in it. Since last year we're having purity seminaries with the concrete intention of preparing our HARPies who are willing to participate at our purity ring - ceremony, but also for blessed families in general to learn about the importance of purity and blood lineage.

Unfortunately, due to low application-rates, our workshops in Frankfurt and Nürnberg had to be cancelled, so that our only workshop to be held was in Düsseldorf. It lasted 4 days and had the motto "Bis zur Unendlichkeit und noch viel weiter!" ("to infinity and beyond", from "Toy Story"). The schedule included lectures, sports and a celebration on foundation-day, which was a German holiday as well (reunion). The idea behind the workshop was to learn about our limits and how to overcome them. About 20 HARPies from the Düsseldorf community participated at this workshop.

However, even though two of our workshops had to be cancelled, all of our three purity seminaries took place and were a good experience for everyone! They lasted a day and about 50 people, including some parents, attended. They've heard a lecture from older Second Generation members about purity and pure love - lifestyle, had the possibility of discussing these issues within small groups, heard a personal testimony and enjoyed a relaxed and fun time together!

The Norwegian HARP members have been participating in a 21day condition including 40 full bows and 7 minutes of prayer each day. Members from many different age groups signed up for it and were enthusiastic about it. The objective of the condition was to kick of the new Harp year with some spiritual activity. It is now completed and I would personally think it was very successful, and we hope to do more conditions as a whole in the future.