WOW!

What a day we had today. God is doing some awesome things here in The Hat! One of our missionaries, Pam, had never seen snow before. There was no snow in the forecast at all and last night she prayed for snow and we got about 1/2 and inch this morning. She was in heaven!

We all went to church the Glenview Nazarene Church today. Our friend, Debi Stodolka, wrote a play a few years ago called "A Father's Heart" and it was performed today at her church. I don't think there was a dry eye in the building this morning. Before the play started, Pastor Dave welcomed our Southern Baptist missionaries to Medicine Hat by publicly praying for them and for the church plant here in Medicine Hat. It is quite humbling when another denomination prays for a different denomination to succeed in ministry. Thank you pastor Dave for praying for us.

We went to Smitty's for lunch today and we had a great lunch. Our waitress today was Cheryl and she thanked us for being such a great table. After we finished our lunch and left, Pam came back and asked Cheryl if she could pray for her. Cheryl had no clue why anybody would want to do something like that.

After that we walked throughout the mall and surveyed people. This is the main response that we got from people at the mall: There is nothing centrally localized for our youth and young adults. Jay MacIntosh also met somebody who goes to The Link, which is a new church that focuses on young families in the flats. I am to get together with the pastor there and find out some good things to do to reach some of those families.

After the mall, we came back down to The Flats and prayer walked the community. We had a great time and that's where we met Margaret. Margaret is one of my neighbours who lives across down the street from me. I've seen her before and said hi once or twice. She was coming back from the IGA with a bag of dog food and I asked if I could help her with it, since it looked heavy. Well, Pam took over from there. Thank God for Pam. She has been a blessing up here. Pam was telling Margaret how this was the first time she had ever seen snow, and Margaret heard her accent and asked where they were from and Pam said Texas. "Are you missionaries?" Asked Margaret. "Well, yes we are" said Pam, "but we only tell our good friends that. I guess that makes us good friends now doesn't it?" Margaret is searching for God and I told her where I live. She has a 32 year old son who has a mental illness who lives with her, and sometimes that wears on her. We prayed for with Margaret (who is not a believer) and I gave her a prayer card and a brochure and showed her where we live. Half an hour later she showed up to our house with her dog to make sure she knew where I house was, and we all talked some more. Please pray that Margaret and her son, Stephen, come to know the Lord. Tomorrow is going to be another busy day.