God has been at work! I just wanted to get this quick blog up to let you all know that God has been at work in Medicine Hat! If you have been getting our newsletters, you know we have been holding information sessions and they have gone well. More than well in fact, but we [...]
Licensure is the “bar exam” for the pastoral profession. Some denominations have more rigorous methods, some have less. The Grace Brethren are on the more side. Last month I wrote an 8 hour exam with around 80 questions, all short answer. They were all based upon theological concepts with one five question set of historical [...]
Matt Sweetman provides a list of what he thinks he did wrong in the first 6 months before launch. I plan to heed those warnings. 8 Mistakes in the First 6 Months of Planting
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I dropped off our breast pump and some extra diapers with Cheryl today at the BC Women’s Hospital. Just in time… they were considering transferring them out to Surrey tomorrow. I have such brilliant timing. She was telling me of a conversation with a lady in there with her new daughter, and how that woman [...]
God continues to provide us with opportunity to grow, but in terms of direct preparation, not much is happening right now with all the other events swirling around us. We are beginning the wrap-up of our Awana year and that has been an incredible experience. I think I can safely say that both of us [...]
I received a newsletter from Forge Canada today, and it had an interview with Karen Wilk, the leader of the River Community Church in Edmonton. She talks about how they started as a church plant, and how they moved into a neighbourhood as 5 families with the intent of serving the community and seeing a [...]
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In visiting all these communities, we did repeatedly see some patterns. Since the communities are all growing like gangbusters, we have definitely seen the truth of how new city planning leaves little room for churches. When people say that the church is being marginalized, it truly is. This was especially striking in Lethbridge but was [...]
We finished visiting all the communities we wanted to Wednesday afternoon. The weather out here has been cold – below normal for the month of March. Hence, we didn’t spend as much time “on the ground” as we originally planned. However, thanks to many hands both likely and unlikely, I believe we saw what we [...]
Finished with a look at High River and Okotoks yesterday. Shockingly, we saw more appeal in the suburbs of Calgary than with Lethbridge which surprised even me! Something I didn’t mention before about the Hat. Didn’t see any Thai food there, but on the way out of town there was a little village called Bow [...]
We got out of Kamloops in record time (due to a restless infant and a dog with a full bladder), and were ahead of schedule by the time we finished breakfast in Revelstoke. But then a new challenge arose…
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