I am pondering the late summer window. We are considering having a week at the end of August set aside for pre-launch outreach. The interesting thing about Medicine Hat (and Alberta) is public school starts the week before Labour Day, which I keep feeling is an opportunity. Parents are stressed (but relieved) to get the [...]
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The short answer is offline. The slightly longer answer is a little more technical. We did an update to the software that keeps the blog and it didn’t finish the update correctly. Plus, in an effort to save money we decided to move the blog to a new server. Now, we are taking advantage of [...]
God is Good! On Thursday I completed the last of my real estate exams. This has been a critical step for us in terms of settling into Medicine Hat and becoming self-supporting. Let me explain how this fits into what we are doing here. When we began to dream about planting a church in [...]
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This was the second national conference of the Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches we have been to, and we never cease to enjoy any opportunity to get together with the leaders and other members of Grace Brethren Churches across North America (and a few international missionaries as well!) Not having experienced national-level meetings in any [...]
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I can’t believe how the time has flown by since we got here. All of a sudden 35 friends from across the continent will be descending here to help us begin the work of church planting here in Medicine Hat! We are planning an “early bird” dinner at our place Saturday night for those coming [...]
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We arrived in Medicine Hat on May 22. Today is May 26. In these first days, we’ve been struggling just to settle the house and the kids down. It probably won’t settle completely until next weekend as a new rhythm is established. Still, so much has happened in three days. New patterns: Trying to establish [...]
What do you call it when a Harvard professor is in agreement with Cracked.com? I struggle with “freaky coincidence”, though that may be all it is. But two wildly different instruments playing the same tune bears closer look. Before we go on, I must warn you: if you haven’t been to Cracked.com before, the language [...]
I was doing some research on church planting surveys for the community, trying to get a handle on what kinds of questions to ask and how to present them. I encountered these comments specifically about church planting prospects in Canada. What becomes clear is that in places like the Jerusalem of Acts 2, where there [...]
Getting this house sold has been hard. But it’s done. We’ve worked hard to stage it, to clean it, to make it look nice, to add to its value. It seemed like it just wasn’t enough. The look of our house was a great draw, but because the interior has never been as interesting as [...]
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I don’t pretend to be fervent or righteous. I am a sinful man like the next guy. However, I have a story for you this morning. On Sunday we made a public appeal to our church for help – we are 2 weeks away from our self-imposed deadline for listing our house for sale. Yes, [...]
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