entering into GLORY

Quite a bit is happening the last couple weeks here in St Catharines.

Weekly, Heymans, Colin, Jessica, Jenny and I conduct church services at Scott St Manor. Last week we had our largest attendance yet (16) and the Spirit of God was moving in awesome ways, (check it out -->HERE<--). Sadly though, a couple of days before that service, one of our closest friends at the Manor (James, pictured at right ) suddenly passed away. He was in his mid-forties, and we were lucky enough to have met and spend time with this man whom God was obviously transforming into the image of Jesus. James has now entered into Glory, and although we miss him, we celebrate the fact that he is now in the literal presence of his Savior!

I went for a job interview at SITEL the other day and it appears I will be starting work on Feb 4. So that is pretty cool. It is a call center; which should be fairly amusing.

Yesterday, Jenny and I rented a car and went to TACF to see Bill Johnson (left). It was pretty rockin. Heymans also took a couple people down for the day. On the way back to St Catharines (which is normally an hour long drive) the traffic was AWFUL and it took us a little over 3.5 hrs to get back!!! We totally missed the 2nd weekly session of a Pastoral Care course we're enrolled in in Welland. Anyways, it's all good. We'll get there next week, I hope. And if you are so inclined, pray about Laos with me. Something about it has dropped into my spirit and I want to see if the desire for it increases or not.

And then.......

Well, I've been back in Canada for a week and I've mixed feelings about the whole thing. It is great to be back and syeeing some of my bestest friends still going hard after God. John, in his 3rd letter says, "I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth." (3John 4) . I absolutely adore this scripture and kind of have adopted it and I keep it close to me. I truly desire to see everyone walking close to God and running hard the race.

The opportunities to minister have been abundant here. Through the last week I have been able to speak at a nursing home, sing songs and pray at a hospital, do visitations with children from broken homes, do street and bar evangelism; sunday we did another nursing home service, and monday I got to speak at another nursing home. It has truly been awesome. God has really been speaking to me since I returned about taking and making the most of EVERY opportunity He gives me. Of being a good steward of opportunity. It has been good. He makes up for my inadequecies. It was a good weekend as well. I spent most of it at TACF. Heidi Baker was ministering thursday eve and friday eve, wih Ruth Fazal and Kelly Warren leading worship respectively. It was an awesome few days and now I pray for the opportunity to give out of what I recieved there.

So now, I return to PEI. I wil be there by next week and will remain through the holidays. What is next? Who knows? I sure don't. I have high expectations for what God is gonna do over the next 6-7 weeks though. Blessings to you all, He is good.

post psychic fair '07

What a (somewhat) crazy weekend. Friday, after classes, Josh Heymans and I went to the Psychic Fair here in town this weekend to see what Holy Spirit would lead us into. The atmosphere was HEAVY with warfare; ours conflicting with theirs. I had a few discussions but was unable to really get a foothold or advantage in any of them. I didnt go there to preach or 'convert' (or did I?), unless led by the Spirit to, but I wanted to go and sow some seed out there and to see just how much spiritual friction there would be. And let me tell you, you could literally feel it as you walked through the doors. I did start a conversation with one of the psychic's assistants, but when I asked her "What's the difference between a psychic and a prophet?", I drew a line in the sand. She couldn't answer me so she asked Rev. Corbie Mitleid (the psychic whom she represented), and Corbie pretty much tore a strip off me and made it abundantely clear that I was "unwanted" at this kind of venue. T'was a wee bit crazy.

Corbie was to do a seminar on saturday, Feb 3rd @ 2pm, so Josh, Julie and I went to check it out. We were 10 minutes late for it and seen no open seats as we walked in. The Josh spotted 3 open seats in the front row!!! How funny was that?! So we saunter up and take our seats and listen to her propaganda. She moved her table back a bit to put some distance between us and her, and consciously avoided us the whole time; muito funny. Then we went around to all the tables and I talked with assistants. I likened a lot of their beliefs to Hinduism and similiar far eastern religious mindsets. I was able to back a couple of them into a corner they could not explain their way out of, in a non-confrontational way, of course. Holy Spirit really gave me some clever analogies.

On sunday, Josh and I went to TACF to see Ola, and partake in an a.m. service. Some lady we didn't know blessed us with $40 to take Ola out to lunch with, seeing as it was her 20th birthday. We also took a couple of the SoM graduates out with us; one of whom Ola wants me to marry. Anyways, we went back to the SoM building afterwards to eat and play pool and rave, and stuff. It was definitely "one sweet weekend".