Today I spent a bit of time outside with my camera and my new monopod (Its sweet!). I was trying to get a shot of a male Cardinal in the tree, but it suddenly took off. The bird is totally out of focus, but I thought the effect was neat.
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I was able to also get this photo of a female Cardinal behind the house.
See more photographs of cardinals and other birds at www.troyjohnstone.com/bird_photography/
Last night the sky was almost clear.. almost. There was just enough high altitude clouds made up of ice crystals to create a beautiful halo around the moon. For awhile there was actually two rings.. it was quite spectacular. There were also some students out with their cameras and tripods capturing this rare event.
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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
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.
