Heise Hill Brethren In Christ Church

31 August 2009

Ontario Days Ending

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At The Beaches in Toronto, Ontario
If all goes according to schedule, tomorrow will be our last full day in Canada! The time sure has flown by, as we knew it would. So I thought I’d stop and give you an update and let you know what will be happening the last few days.

Basically, we’ve been zipping around southern Ontario, visiting family and friends. On Sunday, we enjoyed a visit to Heise Hill Brethren in Christ Church, where we shared and sang in the morning service.

On Sunday evening I had a great time sharing the Maximizing Your Short Term Mission Trip seminar, also at Heise Hill. We had a great group, some of whom had never been involved in missions, others who had quite a bit of experience, some who had even received teams as long term missionaries, or who were involved in missionary training. There were also a few members of a team that will be serving in Cuba this fall.

So we had a great time (well, I did, and it seemed like most everyone was having a good time!) going through the material, and then we took some extra time brainstorming specific topics, like – how can we get others interested in mission trips, when they’re not the ones going? What kinds of things can we do or bring with us that will help us interact with people of other cultures? We came up with some great creative ideas.

Today we were at The Beaches (or The Beach, depending on who you talk to), Toronto, with our friends the Beaches. And yes, while we were there we visited the beach.

And now… continuing south…

And now we continue our trip south, heading south of Lake Ontario to Wainfleet tomorrow, then on Wednesday we’ll be crossing the border into the USA. We’re looking forward to visiting Shari’s sister Amy and her husband Nate (and maybe… maybe… their new baby… will it arrive in time??), who you may know from their famous blog Under The African Rain.

From there we plan to continue south on the weekend, arriving in Mexico City the following week. As I have more specific dates I’ll let you know – we would appreciate your prayers as we travel and especially as we cross borders.

Lots more to say, but no time – maybe we can have an "Ontario Week" when we get back to Mexico, and catch you up on some of the interesting news. 🙂

26 August 2009

Southern Ontario Update (Condensed Version)

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Between a very packed schedule and very little time with internet access, I’m afraid I haven’t had a lot of time to update you. I have a feeling we’ll have to be doing some trip reviews once we get back to Mexico … sometime … ! 😉

Anyway, I’m going to have to give you the very condensed version at the moment, because I’m in a rush to get out the door.

We’ve spent a lot of time visiting people here in southern Ontario, which has been great. We also had a week of holidays at Fair Havens, which was a great time as a family (highly recommended, by the way, if you’re in the area).

We enjoyed a very encouraging Sunday at Garside Bible Church, where I shared about Mexico and preached. Always wish we could come more often and stay longer. 🙂

At the moment we’re zipping around Lake Ontario – north of it, south of it, and over to the west in Kitchener/Waterloo. That’s more or less what we’ll be doing until we leave Ontario on September 2nd.

If you still want to catch us on a Sunday, we’ll be at Heise Hill Brethren in Christ Church this coming Sunday (the 30th). We’ll be sharing about Mexico and singing, and I’ll be doing the Maximizing Your Short Term Mission Trip seminar in the evening (6-8pm). Feel free to call the church for details. It will be great to be back at Heise Hill.

Gotta run for now! See you soon. 🙂

20 July 2009

Schedule in Ontario

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For those of you who want to see us while we’re in Ontario, I wanted to keep you up to date with our schedule. Below you’ll see the events we have booked, and some of the general locations we’ll be in. I hope we can see many of you at these events – please contact the churches for more information!

July

Sunday the 26th – First Baptist Church
Cochrane, ON
I’ll be sharing about Mexico and our ministry, and also preaching in the morning service. We’ll be in Cochrane until Wednesday morning.

Wednesday the 29th (Edit) – Moosonee Baptist Church
Moosonee, ON
Maximizing Your Short Term Mission Trip Seminar in the evening. This is tentative – there may be a couple of seminars presented in this area. Call the church for information at (705) 336-2394. We’ll be in Moosonee until Monday.

August

Sunday the 2nd – Moosonee Baptist Church
Moosonee, ON
(Edit)We’re still working out the details, but it looks like we’ll be leading adult Sunday school in the morning. In the evening I’ll be preaching and doing a presentation about Mexico.

Sunday the 9th – Lansing Avenue Baptist Chapel
Sudbury, ON
Sharing and preaching in the morning service. We will be in the Sudbury area on Saturday and Sunday, and briefly earlier in the week.

10-22 August
We’ll be travelling around and spending a little time in the Mount Forest area. We’re also taking a week at Fair Havens Bible Conference Family Camp.

Sunday the 23rd – Garside Bible Church
Hamilton, ON
Preaching and sharing about Mexico and our ministry in the morning service. We’ll be around Hamilton from Saturday evening until Monday.

24 -31 August
We’re still working on some details here, but we’ll probably be spending our time around Wainfleet, Kitchener/Waterloo, and Scarborough/Toronto.

Sunday the 30th – Heise Hill Brethren in Christ Church
Gormley, ON
We’ll be singing and sharing about our ministry and Mexico in the morning service. At this point we’re also planning a presentation of the Maximizing Your Short Term Mission Trip seminar on Sunday evening. Contact the church for details.

September

We’ll be in Ontario on the 1st, but soon after that will be (Lord willing) heading south of the border to visit Shari’s sister Amy and her husband Nate, then we’ll be heading south homeward.