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I have been afraid of these things for a while now. I am scared that I will take one and it will say, “You shouldn’t be a church planter.” Having reoriented my life towards this goal, a fear of failure has certainly kicked in, in a way that I am actually surprised to find. So, [...]
I’ve been making some good headway on my paper over the weekend. It feels good… like I am actually going to get it done. The section I am working on right now deals with contextualization. There have been some very good things I have been reading about it. One of which I even got off [...]
I think I am glad that December is finally over. It seemed like there was so much that needed to be done before the end of the year. Just as things started to end something would come up, like our sudden trip to Edmonton to see Shane’s grandfather. The Monday before I had finished teaching [...]
It is interesting to contrast the book, “101 Ways To Reach Your Community” by Steve Sjogren with Jonathan Dodson’s appropriate cautions. A lot of Steve’s suggested, especially introductory servant evangelism events are basically reinforcing consumerism. As I read through that book, I found myself thinking the exact same thing subconciously – ruling out any suggested [...]
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That wraps up our look at possible locations. There are a couple of other slim possibilities, like Airdrie and St. Albert, but they won’t get as much attention, barring God changing our minds in no uncertain terms. You might also ask, “Why not X or Y community?” The reality is there are many more communities [...]
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Our last in the series. These ones are the furthest north. Spruce Grove and Stony Plain are distinct communities but really close to each other. 5 minutes, if that, by 4 lane freeway between them. They are both west of Edmonton off the Yellowhead Highway. Both have seen tremendous growth in the last 20 years [...]
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Continuing the series on possible locations, we move up west of Calgary now. Cochrane is another one of these badly swelling small towns, driven by the boom. It has going for it the proximity to the mountains which makes the views and the geography of the town very homey to me. In 1981 it was [...]
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Moving north of Lethbridge, but still well south of Calgary, we encounter the growing suburb community of Okotoks. This is a bedroom community of Calgary, but only for the last 20 years or so. Before that it was just another small prairie ranching/farming village. Since Calgary really started exploding, it has become something close enough [...]
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Here is our second possible location. 2.5 hours from Calgary so marginally closer to a big city. Lethbridge This city was actually brought to my attention by a blogger friend of mine. He was lamenting the lack of quality churches and told me a major problem is that while there appear to be a lot [...]
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