He later broke away from the Baptists and founded a new church, Pinsekirken Tabernaklet Skien [no], which became the first Pentecostal congregation in Norway and the Nordic countries.
[citation needed] In Norway he was employed as a travel secretary in the Norwegian Sunday School Union (Norsk Søndagsskoleunion, today called the Frikirkelig Barne- og Ungdomsunion)[4] where he worked from Kristiania, now Oslo, and Moss.
After reading the supernatural reports of Norwegian-British Pentecostal pioneer Thomas Ball Barratt and studying the Bible, he was convinced otherwise.
The notes from the meeting stated, "never before has a more serious issue been addressed and at the same time a strongly awakening movement; for us a new direction of the Spirit has manifested, which in connection with a visible filling of the Spirit, is a phenomenon like in the 14th chapter of Paul's letter to the Corinthians describing speaking in tongues, about which the congregation has had differing opinions.
His reasoning was stated to be "a disagreement between him and a number of church staff and members regarding the spiritual gifts and their use in the service.