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What a day today was! The mission team and I start our day off at Tim Horton's in the morning and have a coffee and a breakfast sandwich. Leigh and the boys, plus James, Jim, Adena, and Linda went and handed out 500 more fliers today to invite people to the block party. So far, I have got 3 phone calls and 168 hits on the website in the last 2 days regarding the block party.
While they were stuffing mail boxes I took Janet and Debra to Lethbridge which is 2 hours away, but with the road construction it made it almost 3 hours. We had to pick up an ice crushing machine for our snow cones. It was cool coming on the way back because they got to see some buffalo for the first time.
After we got back from Lethbridge, the mission team and I went to Elk Water in Cypress Hills because there is no church there at all. They have some church camps, but no church. I got to hear the history of Elk Water also. It was a native community at first, but not a reserve. Later some of the ranchers in the area like the area and moved in, and the province like the area also and turned the area of Cypress Hills into Canada's only interprovincial park. The rule for provincial parks is that you cannot build a town inside the park, but since the town was already established before it became a park, it could stay but with restrictions. They could not expand the town site at all, so the only new building that could happen is if you tore down your old house and put up a new one.
We prayer walked around Elk Water and saw some things that God could really do over there and we are excited about that, then I was able to talk with Linda for a while. She is to the point of tears right now as she views the lostness here in Canada. Her heart is broken over how many people don't know Jesus and really don't care to know Him and it is obvious that God is doing a mighty work in Linda right now.
Friday, July 4, 2008
Thursday, July 3, 2008
Louisiana mission trip Day 1-2
Well our mission team from Sulphur Louisiana made it to Calgary safe and sound. Jason met them at the airport and they followed him to Medicine Hat. Yesterday they started their day out by going to Tim Hortons and talking to people then they helped take down the tents that Jason had helped set up on Monday at the Canada Day celebration. Last night they did some prayer walking the the neighbourhood that Jason and I live in. They are great people ( all our mission teams have been awesome servants of the Lord. While on the prayer walk Jason and James ( the leader for the Sulphur team) was asked to leave a house by a guy who I guess did not like them talking to his friends. We also enjoyed fellowship around our fire pit in our backyard
Today the team went to Tim Horton's again and had coffee.(Thanks team for bringing me back an ice cap) They are now out handing out postcards to people in the community for our Block party that we are having on Sunday. Please pray for our mission team as they pass out these postcards that we will be able to bless lots of people on Sunday. They will be blanketing about 500 houses in the community we live in and then we will hit another community with the postcards. Please check back tomorrow for an update on what happened the rest of today.
Today the team went to Tim Horton's again and had coffee.(Thanks team for bringing me back an ice cap) They are now out handing out postcards to people in the community for our Block party that we are having on Sunday. Please pray for our mission team as they pass out these postcards that we will be able to bless lots of people on Sunday. They will be blanketing about 500 houses in the community we live in and then we will hit another community with the postcards. Please check back tomorrow for an update on what happened the rest of today.
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
The Smell Remembers When
Years ago Trisha Yearwood came out with a song titled "The Song Remembers When" and she sang about when a certain song came on the radio how it took her memory back in time to a young love that she once had.
Today I walked to Tim Horton's from my house and had a coffee and a breakfast sandwich and as I walked back to my house I could smell a familiar scent that took me back in time to my childhood. I could smell the water from the river and the wildflowers mixed with the native grass and the sweet scent of clean prairie air. The aroma took me back to when I was young and life was simple during my summers at Pasqua Lake near Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
My grandparents owned a lake lot cottage half way down Pasqua Lake that they called Num - Ti- Jah, and every summer we would drive from Edmonton and spend a few weeks of the summer time frolicking in the lake, fishing, water skiing and making forts down in the coulée areas where the deer would nest for the night. The smell took me back to a time that I longed for all year long as a young boy, and eventually a teenager, and then a young adult. It is amazing how powerful aroma really is. It can make you happy, sad, or even angry. It can make your mind wander and think of good times past, or sad times that you never want to endure again. It is surprising how the smell remembers when.
The Apostle Paul talks about the power of aroma in 2 Corinthians 2:15-16. He says, "For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life."
When it comes to Jesus, the smell will always remember when. We will remember how bad life was before we met Jesus and how much better it is now, but for others, the smell of Jesus is not so great. The smell is the stench of death, and they are reminded of how badly they hate the one who paid their penalty to turn the wrath of God away from them. For one the smell is sweet, for the other, the smell is bitter, but the smell will always remember when.
Today I walked to Tim Horton's from my house and had a coffee and a breakfast sandwich and as I walked back to my house I could smell a familiar scent that took me back in time to my childhood. I could smell the water from the river and the wildflowers mixed with the native grass and the sweet scent of clean prairie air. The aroma took me back to when I was young and life was simple during my summers at Pasqua Lake near Fort Qu'Appelle, Saskatchewan.
My grandparents owned a lake lot cottage half way down Pasqua Lake that they called Num - Ti- Jah, and every summer we would drive from Edmonton and spend a few weeks of the summer time frolicking in the lake, fishing, water skiing and making forts down in the coulée areas where the deer would nest for the night. The smell took me back to a time that I longed for all year long as a young boy, and eventually a teenager, and then a young adult. It is amazing how powerful aroma really is. It can make you happy, sad, or even angry. It can make your mind wander and think of good times past, or sad times that you never want to endure again. It is surprising how the smell remembers when.
The Apostle Paul talks about the power of aroma in 2 Corinthians 2:15-16. He says, "For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing, to one a fragrance from death to death, to the other a fragrance from life to life."
When it comes to Jesus, the smell will always remember when. We will remember how bad life was before we met Jesus and how much better it is now, but for others, the smell of Jesus is not so great. The smell is the stench of death, and they are reminded of how badly they hate the one who paid their penalty to turn the wrath of God away from them. For one the smell is sweet, for the other, the smell is bitter, but the smell will always remember when.
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