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 [...]
It occurred to me yesterday that we have not formally announced the results of the tour that we got back from only 7 days ago. To go back a couple of steps, let’s talk about Thursday night, March 26. At this stage, we had just finished a visit to Spruce Grove and Stony Plain, and [...]
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 [...]
A little slap to the face of my own self-absorption: The Wall Street Journal reported in October 2006 that people drive 79 percent more miles than they did in 1982 while roadways have only increased 3 percent, creating a frustrated commuter society living in permanent gridlock.1 People get home late in the evening, open their [...]
Our final day was a big barbeque at Unwin Park. We’d been running programs there all week long, so there was more than a few people aware of what we were doing. Additionally, the park has a lot going on in it – soccer, baseball, a public outdoor pool even. We probably had at least [...]
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I was looking around for church plant blogs from BC and Alberta, to see who’s doing what. I encountered a blogger who also pastors The Open House in East Vanouver. Reading over his and his church’s websites gave me a few clues as to his approach to church planting. I had a few thoughts as [...]
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