They're rich!

Joshua and Joel had the opportunity to pan for gold at Fort Steele. It was an experience they will probably never forget as they both found "gold", well at least "fools gold".

Airport time, yeah!

It seems we've been spending a lot of time in airports lately. Actually, it's because we have and we haven't finished yet. (Waiting in Cranbrook for our flight to Vancouver.)

(OK, I messed up. Now you can see the photo without getting a crick in your neck!)

Meeting the Canadian Office staff

 

After 16 years of serving with Reach Beyond Canada we decided it was time to meet the staff that work so diligently on our behalf. Wow, what a great group of people with a real heart to reach out to those who don't know our Lord and Saviour, Jesus the Christ!

We had a few days with them and left so encouraged to carry on the task of giving everyone the opportunity to hear about Jesus.

Thank you to each of you in the Canadian office!

Jovenes Contra el Cancer

Our church was going to be helping out at an event for the group "Youth Against Cancer", so as a family we went to help.

For the first while it was just setting things up, chairs, tables, signs, etc.. During the event Marlene was helping with the stage coordination and I was walking around taking pictures.

It was an opportunity for each of us to show that Jesus is our Saviour and when we die, we know where our future will be.

It is hard to find someone who hasn't been touched by either losing a friend or loved one to cancer or knowing someone who has had cancer.

Our church is reaching out to these people, to be a support for them.

Interesting signs...

We were walking around our neighbourhood one morning and came across this sign which caused us to break out laughing.

"Peque en la puerta de este lado, gracias."

"Sin at the door on this side. Thanks."

We suspect that they made a spelling error, and the sign should have read "Knock at the door on this side."

Family camp 2014

 We went to family camp this summer and enjoyed a time of relaxing (yes, it is possible at camp) as a family and with other families.

The messages were based on Jesus' sermon on the mount in Matthew 5. It was both encouraging and helpful.

Joshua and Joel enjoyed being able to run around and find all sorts of things to do.

The rule was that when you heard the siren, you had to go to where the siren was. The siren indicated the start of some event or meal times. Well, they were almost always the first in-line for meal times!

Once, because they got to dinner-time before we did, they had gotten food for themselves and us as well! That was really neat!

Going, going, gone!

Another old building on the HCJB campus came down this summer. It had many structural problems and the power distribution wasn't very good either.

We no longer had any use for the space and it made more sense to take it down and use the space for parking.