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.