It has been a whole year!

A whole year has gone by since we left for and arrived in Canada!

Let's celebrate with a photo from each month, and then let you know what we are doing now:

Our Commissioning in June 2015 at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Chattanooga.

We spent all of July in Belgium last summer as the final phase of
our training with Mission to the World before beginning our work in Canada.

We arrived back in Canada to one of the hottest August's they had - here we are enjoying
some cooler weather near a lake outside the city of Lethbridge.

We also participated in our First Parade ever - letting the city of Lethbridge
know about the Amazing Kids program.

In September we began attending a church on the Blackfoot Reserve - we were
privileged to worship with these great folks for 7 months during the winter.

We had a fall festival complete with face-painting for the kids who
attend the Lighthouse church.

The first snow in Lethbridge - November! Breaking in the new coat and boots.

We had so much fun acting out the Christmas story with the Amazing Kids!

A blustery drive out to Standoff and the Lighthouse reserve in January.

In February we celebrated a marriage with our Amazing Grace Community Church - a fun "outdoorman" wedding shower before and family wedding afterwards.

In March we held the first ever Amazing Kids Spring Break adventures - Hiking with Howard,
and Crafting with Sandy with many of the kids.

In April we joined the first of many BBQ's in the park that
Amazing Grace Community Church holds during the longer summer months.

In May our Amazing Grace Church family celebrated our 35th Wedding Anniversary with us!
It has been quite a journey that Howard and I have been through
this past year and these past 35 years.

June has brought us full circle - we look forward to seeing what God has planned for the next year here in Canada - especially as Amazing Grace Community Church has a building we will use to share Jesus in the Lethbridge Community.

Packing boxes again...

Hey all,
   Yes, we are moving again.  As I sit here at my desk doing the bulletin for the week and other paperwork, I am looking at the bulletin board that needs to be taken down and all the little notes pinned to it.

   All the little pick-me-up's I pinned there to think about:

"I am not expected to bring others to faith 

- God saves!"

Short cuts for the computer:

Add more lines to Excel cells:

 ALT + Enter

The Ann Voskamp encouraging posters I print regularly:

  (you should check out her blog and weekend updates Only the Good Stuff: Multi-vitamins for your weekend)

 The photo of Waterton Lake taken in the fall of 2014 when Howard visited:

The thank-you card from an Amazing Grace Church member which reminds us of why we are here:

The envelope of canceled stamps we are saving for a Chattanooga friend:

Thank-You's from grandkids:

Such is the stuff of everyday life. 

Such is the stuff we pack again. 

But we are Thankful!

Thankful that we don't have to move much furniture, only a bed, a desk and two chairs.

Thankful to only have to pack up the same stuff we brought in the Truck 10 months ago.

Thankful that we will be saving $475.00 a month on rent.

Thankful for the backyard we will have and that we will be all on one floor!

Thankful for many people who want to help us move.

So - here is our new Canadian Address:

    1009 12th Street C N., Lethbridge, Alberta   T1H 2P3   Canada

Spring Break Adventures!

   For our friends who don't use Facebook - a plethora of photos of what Howard and I did during Spring Break this year. 

   We spent time with some of our Amazing Kids during Spring Break Adventures! On Tuesday this week we took our group on an afternoon of hiking and running and playing in the coulees - Lethbridge Coulees - in town.  We had a beautiful sunny day as you can see from the photos.

   On Thursday, we invited any kids who could join us for a day of crafting and movie watching.  We were able to do some of those messy crafts that we don't have time for on our Monday afternoons, and actually finish a game of Sorry.

   It was so great to sit and talk with some of the kids one-on-one, and to listen to their stories and to what excites them. This smaller group of kids (12 instead of our normal 35) was a treat for the leaders and the kids too!