The Fellowship of Grace Brethren Churches holds annual regional focus retreats where pastors and elders can get together and encourage each other and build relationship. The Northwest Focus Retreat is just the Northwest District, so most everybody knows each other… except us. This was the first retreat where we as Community of Hope’s leadership board [...]
Wow, it has been far too long since I updated this blog! I am embarrassed, because it is meant to be an almost daily journal of our journey to the unthinkable: to plant a church for Jesus in Medicine Hat. It is hard for people to read along when we aren’t writing! So here is [...]
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Last night was our leadership Christmas dinner. A lovely time was had by all, by appearances. It looks like we may have a new couple joining us – more hands make lighter work! So, going into the holidays, I can feel momentum beginning to build with my wife and I, and also with my pastor, [...]
First, let me just say that I have NEVER seen a rainstorm like the one that greeted us on the drive from the Orlando Airport to Innisbrook on the day of our arrival. I’ve never actually seen the heavens fall like that before. It was coming down so hard and fast that at points the [...]
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