Look What God's Doing

All I can say is WOW! OK, so this is what is going on. Last week I received my official acceptance letter from the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary. I had to re-apply because I have been out for more than 3 years. Yesterday we received our address to our new house! We will have a kitchen view of the Canadian Rocky Mountains! Also yesterday I received a phone call from Ken Oates, the Missions Pastor from West Rome Baptist Church, in Rome Georgia. They will be flying me to Georgia pretty soon to meet the staff and the elders of the church. He told me that from everything he has heard about me, that Leigh and I are the people for the job in Medicine Hat. Now that is a humbling statement. To think that God would use us - two ordinary people- to start the first Southern Baptist work in Medicine Hat. We are excited, nervous, scared, joyful and humbled all at the same time. So when I get to Georgia, I get to also go to an XL service. XL is their church plant in Rome, GA that meets on Sunday Nights and is focused directly to unchurched people - the same kind of people we will be ministering to in the Hat. Have I already said that we are excited? I have been listening to XL podcasts since April and have seen many of their sermons on Youtube. Tallking about Youtube, here is their first sermon from their man series. Hope you like it.

Camp

We just got back from youth camp, God was good! I was able to teach a class on how to share your faith. I called it Effective Evangelism. It was a combination of 2 different evangelism programs I have used in the past. Anyway, last year only 30 people took the class, this year 90 people took my class and 1 person actually got saved in my class! It was awesome! Anyway, I got to meet the new pastor at Grangerland Baptist Church. His name is Jay Macintosh. God has burdened his heart for Canada. He preached at Bow Valley Baptist Church in Cochrane, about 12 years ago, and he is ready to bring a mission up to Medicine Hat next summer to help us.

I had one downside to camp. This past school year I went to three schools each week to have lunch with the kids; one of the girls that goes to one of the schools was in my family group at camp. She told me that one of the boys I ministered to hung himself this past week. The only comfort I got was that she confirmed to me that he did get a Gospel tract from me.

Kids today are going through hell. They are over sexed, over stimulated and totally misunderstood. Leigh found this great video on KSBJ, we like it so much, mostly because it resembles through a dance/skit what our teenagers are going through right now.

I hope you enjoy it, and maybe shed some light onto why we are so determined to share the Gospel in a country where 94% to 97% of the people do not have a relationship with Jesus Christ.

Riley's 4th birthday

Yesterday was Riley's fourth birthday, man where have the last four years gone. He went to Sunday school and then he came to church with us and was excellent. After church we had a barbeque and ate hot dogs and hamburgers and other things. The kids that came enjoyed spending time in the pool and then we played Pin the nose on Elmo and they really enjoyed that. Then we had cake and ice cream. Riley got a My first story reader. cars and two monster trucks and some bubbles.