We’re so happy that Mariah is living in Tactic and working for Impact Ministries with us. Mariah was in my youth group when I pastored in St. Albert and she toured with me, Amber, Dean and Saison for a week in Guatemala 4 years ago after a mission trip. She is going to work with … [Read more…]
My trouble is that I’m ambitious. And I’m undisciplined. I both love the idea of reading great books and I enjoy reading great books. Oh, the other problem is that I read very slowly. The Lord of the Rings = 18 months. Crime and Punishement = 9 months. The Count of Monte Cristo = 4 … [Read more…]
Spoken to me today at lunch by member of a short term mission team member from PEI, no context needed as there really wasn’t a context: And those Frenchies, I have no use for them. And the worst ones are the New Brunswick Frenchies. I’ve got no use for them at all.
So. I walk out of the office this afternoon. Pull out my keys to unlock my bike and someone has jammed something into the lock so that the key can not be used. Fortunately I have a metal saw on my Swiss Army Knife. Seven Long Minutes. Spent 3 long days this week handing out … [Read more…]
Saw my first jaguar in Guatemala last week. Everything near tikal is either named after Tikal or Jaguars. The pelts of the jaguar were used by the Mayan kings of old. Now they are an endangered species. There were a pair of them at this little island zoo in Lago Itza. I was surprised at … [Read more…]
It is so awesome to have 16 people from our home church, Red Willow Community Church, here in Tactic with us. What an encouragement! It’s really refreshing for me to be able to converse with people that I have a history with – not having to begin at square one with every team member. The … [Read more…]
I’ve known about this for a while, but haven’t had a good picture to fit with the story. Now I do. Impact Ministries had been trying to purchase land for new schools for the past 6 years. The problem was that hardly any land was available and what was available wasn’t really nice land or … [Read more…]
This little chap (nicknamed Poncho) reminded me of Eutychus last night during our discipleship class. Some longwinded sharers. Good times though.
This article from ABC News talks about two Canadian lawyers (one of them is former MP David Kilgour of Edmonton) investigating allegations that imprisoned Falun Gong members are used as organ donors. Falun Gong is a recent religion, 1992, a variation of Buddhism. The founder, Li Hongzhi has claimed the following supernatural powers: invisibility, being … [Read more…]
When I woke up on the morning of September 11, 2001 to the radio describing the attack on the Twin Towers, my first vocal response was “Bush is bombing his own country to start a war.” Since then, it has only cost $287 billion and nearly 2500 US Soldiers to kill 40,000 Iraqi civilians (yeah, … [Read more…]