It’s been a while! Here’s a little update on some of the things we’ve been up to.

Kids’ video for our church

Like many, church has been a bit different. For a long time, our church only did services online. During that time, we were asked to do one of the kids’ features for our church’s online service. We were provided with a rough script and we filmed it in our yard.

You can watch the video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7F4xMNyU2s

A new audio drama?

Work on the No Ordinary Story audio drama is moving along, overseen by John Cross and James Janzen. This music and drama gospel presentation has been over a decade in the making, but we are nearing first publication. Last year John consulted with a Christian drama professor with extensive script writing experience. With his input, the team engaged in a script re-write, largely telling the true stories of three actual people.

The audio drama is now in the editing stage. We hope to have this available in audio format by Christmas and then the next goal is to create the resources for churches to perform this as an evangelistic outreach event by next year.

We wanted to have an international sound, so the voice actors include three mild accents: Scottish, Indian and Canadian. In a time of social distancing, this made for some interesting challenges to get their voices recorded, but we are thankful for how the process has gone.

Thank the Lord with us for his provision in many ways and for directing this huge project forward.

Other happenings

Naomi has been writing articles for GoodSeed to inform and encourage people to share the Gospel message. The confluence of crisis, isolation and technology has led to some exciting stories of people sharing their faith in new ways. We’ve heard of many studies taking place via Zoom; of increased openness to the Gospel all over the world; of an increased burden among some believers to reach out to those around them.
Troy continues to plug away at his responsibilities, which include everything from government paperwork, financial oversight, website maintenance, responding to many email inquiries each day, maintenance around our office, keeping our store going and getting new storefronts up and running (we’re almost ready to open one in Australia), among many others. He has much more to do than he has hours in his day.

Give a few of them a read at:
What is Truth? part 1, part 2, part 3

Summer

Despite all that is going on, we have had some good opportunities to get out and enjoy the short Alberta summer. We are stay a lot closer to home generally, but thankful to live in a beautiful part of the country. We have had lots of local walks and bike rides, and many camp fires in the back yard.

We had a few days at a Christian camp as a family and our eldest, Ellie, stayed on for 10 days as a volunteer in the horse program. We also have a camping trip planned for later this month before the whole back to school rush.

Thanks for joining us on the journey!

Troy & Naomi

Ptarmigan Cirque

Ptarmigan Cirque

Ptarmigan Cirque

Adelaine and her pet lizard

Video update

Naomi and I were recently asked to provide a short video update for my home church and we thought we would send it along for you to watch or share with your church. In the video we share a little about life for our family during this pandemic, as well as some stories from GoodSeed.

You can watch the video at: https://youtu.be/bfx9CqaA_nI

Spring has finally come to Central Alberta! Better late than never. On April 8th I took a snow shovel out to our back garden to expose the soil and the snow was nearly to my knees. Now we are outside more and enjoying gardening, walks along country roads, and last weekend, a hike in surreal landscape in the river valley at Dry Island Buffalo Jump Provincial Park. Here are a few photos of our adventures.