What makes up part of New Year’s Eve celebrations in France you ask? Why, macaroons of course!
How ’bout you? How did you ring in 2017? Continue reading
A Whole New World
Category Archives: AIM – Missions
Something New!
For some time now, I’ve been thinking about adding a new element to the blog and it’s finally found its place: I’m calling it “Short Term Missions Mondays.” Continue reading
Christmas Cheer and Looking Ahead
Got your New Year’s resolutions ready? If not, don’t worry too much about it… you know what they say:
“A New Year’s resolution is just something that goes in one year and out the other.”
🙂 Continue reading
Merry Christmas!
Whether you’re reading this with your morning coffee right on Christmas Eve, or whether you’re reading it a little later, given the oft’times business of the day before Christmas, let me say Merry Christmas or, as we say in France…
Joyeux Noël! Continue reading
On the road again…
Oh the difference a day makes! This time yesterday, Timo was beginning his first day of the Christmas holiday and looking forward to going ice-skating downtown. Today, he’s got a splint on his foot and his first pair of crutches. Continue reading
Family (in) Retreat
On one hand, I’m at a bit at a loss for words as I begin today’s post. Looking in from the outside, it could appear that not much has happened in terms of “ministry” and I find myself almost feeling the need to be apologetic for the lack of any tangible “results”. Continue reading
“Yes, Mr. President!”
It never ceases to amaze us how God reveals himself in the “little things”… well, we call them little, but every time God does something that is outside of the norm… is it really little? Continue reading
Going deeper…
I took today’s feature image Thursday while waiting for the boys to finish school. The day had been cloudy and damp but the setting sun caught the top of a cold, stone building, against a cool grey sky and set it ablaze with light and warmth. Continue reading
Youth Convention
“Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!“
Psalm 133.1
When your week-to-week experience is in a home-missions-type setting, and your’re two to three hours away from your nearest sister-churches, you tend to appreciate this verse from the psalms in a whole new way. It was good to be in Melun last week at the annual youth convention.
European Youth Convention
Last Sunday morning I hopped on an Air Canada Express jet to start the trip back to France after three great weeks back home. When I think of those three weeks, I am thankful for I experienced the hand, and faithfulness, of God once again. Isn’t that what having a living, current relationship with God all about… experiencing him afresh on a regular basis?! Continue reading
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