First Prayer Card and Brochure

I got the prayer cards and brochures made up yesterday. Do they ever look sharp! I was able to give away our first set last night on the bus to a father and son, Mike and Tim. Mike lost part of his pinky finger in a bobcat accident and damaged his ring finger a while ago. His ring finger bone keeps getting infected, so he was in Calgary getting a bone scan. I asked him if I could pray for him and he said sure, after that I gave him a prayer postcard and told him to fill it out and mail it back to me when God answers his prayer. He thought that was cool and I gave his son, Tim, a brochure about the church. Tim is 20 and he and his girlfriend are expecting their first son, Lucas, on March 23. Tim has been going to the Pentecostal church in our neighbourhood on and off for about a year. I shared my testimony with both of them and neither of them let on that they were saved. Please pray for Mike and Tim, Nicole and soon to be Lucas.

I also want to congratulate my friends, Nick and Serena Melazzo on the birth of their second daughter, Caitlin.

Prayer Cards and Brochures

We are getting very excited about our first mission team coming up in the next few weeks from Grangerland, TX. We will be prayer walking and surveying the different communities of Medicine Hat. I have designed some "This is how God answered my prayer" post cards with prepaid postage and some brochures that share the vision of Pathway. When I was at Mountainview, we had a little catch phrase. "A view beyond ourselves." Well, I came up with a catch phrase for Pathway. "Because the journey's worth it." Anyway, I'm very excited, and this is how it's going to work:

As we meet people we will survey them and when we are done, we will ask them how we can pray for them. When they tell us, we will write down the prayer request, pray with them there, and then hand them one of the postcards. We will instruct them that when God answers the prayer, to write down how He answered it and drop the postcard in the mail. When they take the postcard, we will give them a brochure that also shares the Gospel and thank them for their time. I will be getting these documents published this week.

We have also been attending Temple Baptist Church for the past two weeks here in Medicine Hat. The music minister, Mike Deibert, graduated from the Canadian Southern Baptist Seminary. He and one of my friends who is now an IMB missionary in Africa tried starting a CCSB church here about eight years ago, but nothing came of it. Mike (who works at a North American Baptist Church) has been praying for eight years for a CCSB church to begin in Medicine Hat.

My family has worshiped twice at the Nazarene Church here in Medicine Hat and they have welcomed us and our Georgia Team in to their congregation and have been praying for CCSB work in Medicine Hat. We are seeing that God wants to do something here. Will you please pray that these post cards and brochures will help to start our ministry here in Medicine Hat.

Life With A Four Year Old

I needed a break today because I am working on a presentation for the spiritual formation of families, so I thought I would walk on down to the Greyhound and buy my bus ticket for tomorrow. I already went this morning to drop off a library book and the Greyhound was only a block away, but they were closed until 11:00 am this morning because it is Family Day. When I got home I put my shoes with everybody else's shoes by the back door. All I wanted to do was to put my shoes on and go to the Greyhound, but my shoes seemed to mysteriously disappear. I looked in the bathroom which is by the back entrance, I looked in the living room, I looked in the kitchen, I looked in the bedrooms, I looked downstairs and I was about to look outside. I asked Riley where my shoes were, but he wasn't going to tell me. My wife asked if I'd checked the washer. Apparently I'm not that smart because any logical person would have checked the washer first. Leigh was doing a load of wash and we figure that Riley thought my shoes were a little dirty. So now I am going to postpone my walk to Greyhound for another hour as my shoes dry. So just a word to others out there who have a four year old, if you can't find your shoes, check the washer.