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A shout out to Luseland Alliance Church.

Yesterday I had the opportunity to preach and lead in communion.  You are great people.

I spoke about the opportunity to boast – and we boast because we know God (Jeremiah 9:23-24).  Then I moved to the one thing approach for this year – one word, one verse, one habit (with the example – one word:  listen; one verse:  Proverbs 4:20 – Pay attention to what I say, turn your ears to my words; one habit:  whenever you shower, let the water clean your ears so you can hear – and ask God what he wants to say).  And finally I pointed out that our God is too small – we need to enter this year as the year of the impossible.

Made for a good segue into communion where we remembered that Jesus gave us a new covenant – that everyone who follows Jesus is a part of this good news.

Then out to lunch with Minnie Kreizenbeck and a whole crew – around a round table at the local Chinese restaurant.  What entertainment to talk life and to reflect on the past as we considered the history of the early days of the Luseland Alliance Church (which has been around for 90 years – beginning as the Prairie Gospel Tabernacle in Heart’s Hill, SK).

Thanks for the day!

I’ve been sitting in on an online forum these past few days.

Sponsored by the Evangelical Fellowship of Canada, the forum looks at various topics that are current in the church realm in Canada.  I was going to say the evangelical church, but that is to restrictive.

From a good statisticians/mathematicians standpoint, online forums are great.  I can figure out how many comments each issue garners.  I can review each topic.  I can enter into a thread of conversation that is unlike the topic that originally attracted me.

This has been an education.  And a bit of feast, if I say so myself.

I’m eating lots of alphabet soup.  My old dictionary is being updated with each conversation. 

The topic on welcoming refugees includes acronyms I don’t know or understand.  How about IRCC, SAH, CBAC, UNHCR?  The topic on Engaging the LGBT+ community redefines words or parses them very minutely.  Emerging Leaders thread has been trying to define what an emerging leader is – by age? by influence? by predilection? . . .

What recipe book is best suited to your life right now?  What words do you know that the “general” public doesn’t know?  Does that help to determine what you focus in life is?

I read in my morning alone time the following describing how we get wrapped up in activity.  By the end of the day we have missed it!  “It” being . . .

the day slips away and love is left undone.

A Kindersley Alliance Church History (which I compiled) is now available on Amazon – $10.00 each.

Using our "official" start date of January 12, 1940, this commemorates and celebrates 80 years of ministry.

Those who might be interested in a rural church history, those who are related to the church, those who have interest in rural church ministry, . . . The 150 page volume is titled "Living 20/20: Kindersley Alliance Church in Perspective – the Reference Volume." It is currently ranked #259,007 in the Amazon top 100 books listing! For that reason, just type in Kindersley Alliance Church when you search for the book, and it will pop up – otherwise you get all sorts of weird and wonderful suggestions!!  Or click on the link below: