Author: Ron Baker

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International Agreement Signed

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We, the congregation of Kindersley Alliance Church, signed an agreement with some international workers today. 

Sometimes you start off just doing what needs to be done.  And step by step you finally come to a high point (one of many to come).  You don’t realize the momentous occasion until it is past.  I have included some words I’m putting together as a press release to be available tomorrow.  How does this strike you??

International agreement signed

The Kindersley Alliance Church has entered into an agreement with two international workers in Japan. Don and Carol Love are currently working in Tokyo, assisting a local Christian church and providing helpful counsel in starting another church. The Love family will be arriving back in Canada this summer for a year’s home assignment. Don Love will complete a one year teaching assignment at the Alliance University College in Calgary before returning to Japan. Carol Love is currently working towards greater responsibility in the financial accounting for Alliance North American mission work in South East Asia.

The agreement was signed Sunday by Harvey Penner, Board chair for the Kindersley Alliance Church, and by Bruce Ellergodt, representative of the International missions department of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada. Don and Carol Love have been in contact with the church and will append their signatures later this year when they return from Japan.

The Memorandum Of Understanding places Kindersley Alliance Church further towards innovative work in the area of Christian Ministry. The signed agreement is the first in the Canadian Midwest District and is expected to provide a model for other Alliance Churches across Canada.

Don and Carol Love will be working closely with the Kindersley Alliance Church. Strategies and goals will be shared with the church as they seek to personalize mission work for the congregation. The work of the Loves will be able to be tracked through regular reports of work done, budgets provided and personal communications. The church has pledged to provide financial, prayer and creative support to help further the work in Tokyo. One possibility is a short term project in the fall of 2007 to assist the Loves with their goals and strategies in Japan.

Considering the Lilies

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Easter is fast approaching.

In most media you will find little that relates to this season.  OK, you could hit the religion section of a paper, but that’s cheating!

I ask myself what constitutes front page reporting.  Or even second page.

From those questions I’m starting to delve into the news of the day.  Perhaps I need to see each page in a new light. 

What makes this news worth more than one day’s importance?  Where are people really affected?  Is this just anger for the moment or are there underlying causes?  How can I link the happenings of the day with the eternal?

Perhaps I’ll even come to an understanding of Easter in the light of this day – that would make it worth my while talking to an editor of our local newspaper.

Watch your local paper and see what headlines the next few weeks.  Let me know where you see a connection!

Weather the weather!

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I travelled the road to Saskatoon this past weekend.  Parts were slippery.  But the car was stable and there was little traffic.

Yesterday, a teen by the name of Adam Hamel covered the same patch of ashphalt near Kindersley.  Parts were slippery.  But one particular vehicle crossed his path. 

He died last night.  

Today the town is in mourning.

Although I did not know Adam personally, a number of our church youth did.  Parents have found time to spend with their teens – to be a sounding board and to counsel in the grieving process. 

I suppose the unexpected turns in life are never pleasant.  Nor are they easily explained.  I do not envy the place of parents or counselors in times like this.  A listening ear goes a long way.

I wonder, how would you explain a split second – where one half of the second is life giving and the other half is not?

Pretzels, Lent and Easter

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Ran across one of those traditions that you like to hear about!

Pretzels were a food for the Lenten season – a time of fasting and abstaining.  Even today, some European countries reserve the making of pretzels for the Lenten season.  They are formed in such a way that they remind us of praying.  In the early centuries the posture of prayer was one of crossing the arms on the chest – much like the shape of a pretzel.

So, pretzels it is!  Our next trip I’ll put them on the seat beside me.  And as I munch, maybe my wife will be praying – for my driving!!