Yearly Archives: 2006

Or at least I think so.

Mom and Dad arrived in Calgary in time for their flight at 2:00.  The flight was cancelled.  We were able to reschedule them for a 4:50 flight.

We then proceeded to Kelsey’s (in the airport) for lunch.  One hour later we finally had out lunch.  By then we were not sure if they had gone out to catch the cow!  The steak was alright, not unusual.

Looked for a laptop computer.  No sales but great computers! 

Left Calgary with no computer,  parents gone and a four hour drive home.  Arrived back at 10:00 and we are off to bed soon.  The past month and a half have been a learning experience.  I’m getting to know more and more the thought — “Live one day at a time, tomorrow has enough evil of its own.”

Many years ago my children were ready to get me an elephant ranch.  I had a running joke that elephants were my favourite animal.  When asked what I needed for a birthday, I just told them to buy me a place for my elephant.

Yesterday we were out on a ranch.  For a wedding.  With sheep, and chickens and what sounded like a few coyotes.  Oh, yes, there were some 200 people to see the wedding as well.

I looked over the ranch.  Flowing hills coverged into watering holes in the lower basin.  This would be perfect for an elephant!  Or for chickens!

I’ll leave it up to the kids.  See what they might surprise me with . . . I’m not holding my breath!!

Months have passed since I was asked.

Asked to officiate.  At a wedding.  A first time wedding.  A wedding with youthful enthusiasm.  A wedding with centuries old wordings.  A wedding speaking to the culture of today.

Arlin and Laura thought the ceremony through well.  They suggested wordings and directions.  They had her father give her away with more than a quiet acquiescence.  In fact, Kevin gave quite a speech!  The first words of the wedding were spoken by the groom — before the bride even entered!  Interested??  Leave a comment and I’ll be glad to let you know all that was included.

Oh, the wedding was held in a beautiful valley setting, under a tent, with grass under foot and the skies above.

Vietnam has the largest Christian and Missionary Alliance church in the world!

At our Assembly of Alliance churches in Canada, our President (Dr. Frankin Pyles), related the progress of the Vietnamese church over the past 30 years.

In the mid 1970’s missionaries were forced out of Vietnam.  They left behind fewer than 100 official church workers.  They left behind a church of less than 100,000.

Now the numbers are ten times as much.  There is a seminary that graduates 100 students each year — all of whom are headed into ministry.

All of this in an atheistic communist country.