Social networking pays off.
Over the past year or so I have been gradually getting out on to the internets, and attempting to network with other church planters and such through blogs and twitter. I have also become more and more involved in facebook. There are some that might look on these things as time wasters but they have been instrumental in planning this scouting trip.
Through facebook I contacted my cousins in Calgary, who graciously agreed to put us up for a couple of days. Through facebook I reconnected with an old old friend, Tom, from High School – who just got back from a mission trip to Chile and is part of a church worship team in Lethbridge. They also agreed to let us crash at their house. Through blogs I met the Wilks‘ in Medicine Hat, and through twitter I made arrangements to spend the night at their place. Through my long-time blogging relationship with Greg we have another place to stay in the Lethbridge area. The only accomodation I didn’t use social networking for was my sister’s place in Edmonton. I just called her.
I hope that even more opportunities will come of this, as I would like to meet some other local church planters and people like that in come of the other communities we are looking at.
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