Ran across this youtube from Medicine Hat’s News. It is about their school system, and how they need more. I present this here because this represents important information for us. A high demand for schools means growth, and young families. We relate, and that is a big segment of the people we are hoping to [...]
I had coffee with a really nice guy yesterday. The more I think about how much time he gave me, a little ole’ misguided Joe who has the audacity to think God might want to use him to plant a church, the more I am amazed. Cam Roxburgh is the lead pastor of the multi-site [...]
Our last in the series. These ones are the furthest north. Spruce Grove and Stony Plain are distinct communities but really close to each other. 5 minutes, if that, by 4 lane freeway between them. They are both west of Edmonton off the Yellowhead Highway. Both have seen tremendous growth in the last 20 years [...]
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Continuing the series on possible locations, we move up west of Calgary now. Cochrane is another one of these badly swelling small towns, driven by the boom. It has going for it the proximity to the mountains which makes the views and the geography of the town very homey to me. In 1981 it was [...]
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Moving north of Lethbridge, but still well south of Calgary, we encounter the growing suburb community of Okotoks. This is a bedroom community of Calgary, but only for the last 20 years or so. Before that it was just another small prairie ranching/farming village. Since Calgary really started exploding, it has become something close enough [...]
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Here is our second possible location. 2.5 hours from Calgary so marginally closer to a big city. Lethbridge This city was actually brought to my attention by a blogger friend of mine. He was lamenting the lack of quality churches and told me a major problem is that while there appear to be a lot [...]
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For your edification, I thought I would give you an idea where all the different towns and cities are, and what we know about them right now. Starting with the extreme southeast of the province: Medicine Hat/Redcliff This was actually the first community we became interested in. Population around 55 thousand, it is out on [...]
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