Thursday, July 26, 2007

Mexico Mission

A quick post to say we are leaving Friday am early. We'll be staying overnight in Bellflower on the 28th at Bethany CRC. Our team will be there around 7:00pm. Then we pack up and leave the next am and head down the Baja. Pray for our team and if you are in Bellflower come by the church and visit. I won't have internet or phone access until Aug 5th. Till then, blessings.

Thursday, July 12, 2007

Summer

Summer is here. Yes! This is my favorite season. Here are some things the VK's and I are up to.
  • Preparing for a missions trip to the Baja of Mexico. 23 of us from Heartland are traveling to an impoverished area of Mexico. We'll be ministering within a farm work camp by doing VBS, building a house (or two depending on our fundraising) for a family and feeding the camp a meal.
  • Yard project. I've from Terrace, so I thought I'd make a terrace on my sloped back yard. Lots of work. I've moved around about 50 yards of material with a shovel and wheelbarrow.
  • Don't have an iPhone yet (doubt if I ever will).
  • Patti and the kids are coming back from camping today. Hopefully the mosquitoes were not too bad.
  • The weather is hot, last night when I couldn't sleep at 1:00am, the house was 89 degrees.
  • Purchased a spinner exercise bike to work out on. Trying to get my old legs ready for the upcoming rec. hockey season. I'm going to start in August since I'm taking a two month break from hockey. Some injuries are healing nicely now.
  • July 25th is our 20th wedding anniversary. Wow!
  • I'm taking some time off in August (August is my favorite month of the year!)
  • Wishing I had a surfing trip planned, sigh.
  • Working through the book of Ecclesiastes. For many of us it is a back burner book, yet many have expressed how relevant the book has been for them during this series.
  • Lots of friends/people in Heartland are going through hard times. Their hardships are constantly on my mind. I try to shift the concern to prayer. But I'm not always successful.
  • I married a couple on the beach of Kilby last weekend.
  • I'm looking forward to the Bruins training camp -- to get back in the swing of chaplaincy. I officially don't like the off season.
  • I'm having lunch with James today, our new council president. It's going to be a great year of ministry at Heartland!

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