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Posted on February 28, 2007 by Troy

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The Birds of Winter – Photos

Posted on February 27, 2007 by Troy

Before the snow starts to melt and nobody wants to see pictures with snow(maybe it is too late for that..) I decided to put up some pictures of birds from around our house. I hope you enjoy them!

Look at the birds of the air, that they do not sow, nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not worth much more than they?
Matthew 6:26

Ministry Update – February 24

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Troy

Sunny days ahead
Our students have been extremely busy since getting back to the Bible Institute in January. Besides the regular class workload, they are helping each weekend with the Snow Camps that we run for 6 weekends. Some of them will be having a real change of scenery soon. In less than two weeks I will be leading a group of students on a short missions trip to Jamaica.This certainly won’t be a holiday.. Between March 9 and 19 we will be ministering at
6 churches,
7 schools,
2 nursing homes,
2 orphanages,
1 waterfall,
and doing open air evangelism at a few locations in the evenings.

This will be the first student missions trip for our Bible Institute and we are doing it in partnership with ABWE Canada. We have 16 students going plus 2 alumni, 2 students for next year, and one other staff person. This trip will be their entire March break, so those going will not have much rest or any “break”, but we pray that it will be an encouraging time for them as they get to share the Gospel with the people of Jamaica.

Prayer requests for this trip:
1) For wisdom as there is a lot for all of us to do in these last two weeks before we go.
2) A few students are still short on their funding for the trip.
3) A few students are waiting for their passports to come in.

Names

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Troy

In the last week Ellie has learned two important names. She now occasionally refers to Adelaine as “Andennn” instead of just “baby”. The other name is more important.. She now identifies a certain man in some of her books as “Jesus”. This is a name we pray she becomes very familiar with and says throughout eternity as her Savior!

Curling

Posted on February 24, 2007 by Troy

Recently I was invited to tag along with the annual gym class curling trip so I could get some photos for the yearbook. We had to take the students over two days as we have almost 50 this year, but I got lots of action shots… mostly of people falling on the ice. It was fun.

This is Kate. She complained the other day that she hadn’t made it to my blog the other day. So here is a montage of Kate’s curling experience.

Now to be fair.. I could have easily filled this entire post with pictures of other people laying on the ice, but Kate did want to be here. And she was on the ice more than anyone else.

And then there was Dave. Dave has been gifted with the ability to crash stuff. He has had a number of incidents this year (lets just say he isn’t allowed near my van..), but he now has an added distinction of being the only person I know to break a curling rock. Well, the handle at least. He fell on top of it with his back. So here is insult to that injury.

There was more going on than people falling.. some curling happened too. This is Maressa. I don’t think they have curling in Brazil, but she was doing pretty good.