What is the Bible? (podcast)
This is a recording of the sermon I preached at Cremona Country Fellowship in Cremona, Alberta, Canada. If you’re wondering what exactly the Bible is, in a nutshell, have a listen. 🙂
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AB/SK Tour 2011
The Dull Drama of Driving Down
Oh, sure, sometimes we have some interesting adventures driving to and from Mexico. But a lot of the things we have to worry about just aren’t that interesting.
For example, since we’re driving from Prince Albert, Saskatchewan down to Arizona, we suddenly realized we had a problem. Prince Albert supposedly has a low of -8C (18F) today. It’s going to be up to 24C (75F) in Phoenix this week. That means that things left in the van and trailer will both freeze – and melt.
So we had to rearrange some things – make boxes for things that couldn’t freeze, boxes for things that couldn’t melt, and boxes of things that couldn’t melt or freeze.
How silly is that.
Of course we’re thinking of what paperwork we need for two different border crossings. And we have to have clothes handy for warm and cool weather. We need to have places to stop, places to eat, and we need to make sure we can do laundry during the trip and get enough rest to survive.
Of course our new van has its own quirks. We have discovered that we have no air conditioning. Usually not a problem in more moderate Ixtapaluca, but every once in a while…
But unlike our old van, we don’t have to worry about the loud whistling noise it makes when we get up to highway speed (we stuck a wad of paper in the window to cut down on the noise). We don’t have to worry about the rear view mirror falling off when we go over a bump. Every door opens without having to do a special yank-and-dance. We don’t have a whole bunch of warning lights on the dash – in fact, at the moment, we don’t have any! The CD player even works – imagine!
We would appreciate your prayers as we travel down – we’ll settle for dull drama, and not the more exciting kind, this time. Seriously, we’ve had more than enough excitement lately.
Tomorrow is our first border crossing, and Lord willing Monday we’ll be in Mexico. A long way to go – but we’re well on our way.
And so they got what they asked for…
So there was one thing in particular that Hannah and Nathanael were praying for – one thing they wanted to experience in Canada.
Snow.
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Frankly, it wasn’t looking too hopeful. While storms were sweeping the eastern United States, it remained sunny where we were. But finally, in the early morning of the 31st of October, we got a little snow.
Only about an inch.
But the kids were up before dawn, playing with the snow – something they hadn’t done for five years.
It’s a good thing they got up early – it was pretty much melted before the day was over. But a small snow man remained behind…
2000 Years of Missions Seminar II (video)
Yesterday I presented the second half of the 2000 Years of Missions Seminar in Cremona, Alberta. This is the part of the seminar covering the "modern era" of missions. Once again I’ve collected a few clips to give you an idea what we talked about.
I admit it wasn’t my best day. We came later than I had planned (fortunately I had set up the room the night before!). When we were just about to leave for Cremona, I fell on the stairs with a jug of water, soaking myself and creating a lovely indoor waterfall. These are the kinds of things that happen Sunday mornings!
But, people were kind and we managed to have fun in spite of a touch of chaos here and there.
Orientation and Disorientation
Today I went to visit Julian and Malu here in Calgary to continue their information orientation (or is that disorientation?) as new appointees with CAM International of Canada (yes, soon the be Camino Global).
We had a good time – Julian and Malu love the Lord, love His Word, and love Mexican food. So guess what we ended up talking about for a lot of the time? That’s right – the Lord, His Word, and Mexican food. Which does rather lead me to believe that Mexican food will still feature prominently in the new heavens and new earth. 😉
Seriously, do pray for this couple as they start out preparing for ministry in Ixtapaluca. They have been involved in ministry in Mexico before in various ways, and because he is Canadian and she is Mexican they’re used to living in two (or more!) worlds. So we appreciate their experience an insight, and also realize that in many ways this will be another new journey for them.
Malu and Julian were very gracious as I was in a LOT of pain today – the migraine meter hitting a higher point than it has for a while. It’s been a difficult week, and we as a family have been short on sleep (for various reasons – mostly kids up in the night!), so we would appreciate your prayers that we can get some rest and be feeling better.
And tomorrow – we’re off to Innisfail and looking forward to serving in the worship service and seeing old friends and new. 🙂