Last Saturday, while Krista was acting as host for a rental we had here at Hope, a well dressed gentleman came through the doors with an unusual request. He wondered if the church could help him buy some infant formula for his baby grand-daughter.
Dear brothers and sisters at Hope Fellowship, Greetings from Abuja, Nigeria! I just want to take a few minutes to say a BIG thank you for your donations towards my support!!
Weather-wise they got everything, according to Rod who did the Ride to Conquer Cancer last week along with fourteen other Hope Peddlers and almost five thousand other cyclists. On Saturday they dealt with rain and wind; on Sunday they faced blazing heat. But they all made it, including Jeff, who sported a yellow flag as a cancer survivor, and John, who rode on his son Geoffrey’s bike.
I LOVE THE LEARNING CURVE. God has given me the ability and hunger to learn about technically challenging things. I enjoy learning activities where new skills are mastered each time you do it.
I think my heart has been broken. No, I’m sure it has. Last weekend I was given the opportunity to attend a Truth and Reconciliation Conference, an ongoing effort to grapple with the fall-out of the Residential Schools that our Indigenous People were forced to attend for more than a century. It’s an ugly story.
Last week, in Ottawa, at a meeting of the Canadian Council of Churches, the Board of Governors was informed that 1,000 young people from the Christian Reformed Church were converging on Sir Wifrid Laurier University in Waterloo to spend the long weekend worshiping God, being challenged and strengthened in their faith by various speakers, and reaching out to the community. “One thousand young people! Wow!”
Trinity United Church was the site of the first Mayor and Community Leaders’ Prayer Breakfast on Thursday, May 24. It was a glorious spring morning as the auditorium filled with church and business leaders, as well our Mayor Adrian Foster and our local MP. Our speaker was Mr. Mel Finlay, the National Director of Nation at Prayer, a non-profit, ecumenical organization that “exists to pray with elected representatives and to call Christians to pray for all elected representatives at every level of government” ( nationatprayer.ca ). In his speech he challenged everyone to honestly ask themselves three important questions.