Rally in the Valley – RITV – took place over the weekend at Kings Church with speaker Steve Norman from Kensington Community Church in Detroit. Illusionist Harris brought the house down on Friday night. There were 572 students registered (highest ever) with over 100 volunteers from the church helping out. The attendance overall exceeded 750 […]
SPECIAL URGENT REQUEST Received word last evening that Lindsay Ingersoll has taken a very serious turn in her illness. Intercessory prayer requested. Friday and Saturday saw the graduation exercises for Kingswood University on her 70th year take place. One of the highlights was the conferring of an honourary doctorate on Rev. Atef Sedhom Khalaf, National […]
Great day at Yarmouth yesterday. Excellent crowd – circa 600 – to share in a farewell for Pastor John Symonds after a total of 21 years of service at Yarmouth Wesleyan that saw two new churches built, a total relocation and outstanding growth propelled by John’s soul-winning ministry and relevant preaching. YWC is now the […]
On Saturday, our 2016 General Conference delegates gathered at the District Office to preview the proposed actions of the Conference and discuss logistics as well – a meeting that Peter labeled the General Conference vote rigging meeting 🙂 Three of our delegates were not able to attend, Kelly Jay, A J Plaizier and Philip Bain […]
Last week we utilized our new board/conference room for the first time for a meeting of the Beulah Session of the Camp Board. The engineering firm that is working on a master plan for Beulah’s development made use of our new brightlink pro for their presentation – very sharp. The room is a great addition […]
Historic day on Grand Manan yesterday. The three churches worshipped together at Grand Harbour Central with chairs being carried in to accommodate the crowd of 198 – a full house plus. Following the service with an anointed sermon from Steve Bradley, and a combined congregational meeting, a vote was taken on supporting and approving in […]
Maximizing Impact (MI) visit number eight was held at Halifax Metro over the weekend. There was excellent participation from the church with more than 50% of their Sunday AM average present for the group sessions. Their self-study was well done, the interviews went very well and the report was well received. Their move to the […]
This past week had me in Atlanta from Monday – Friday attending the DS Institute, a meeting of all DS’s with the General Superintendent and Executive Cabinet members. Only one DS was not present and we had excellent synergy in the sessions and the sidebar discussions. We also were challenged by a number of special […]
Beulah Camp 2016 – July 3-10 with Drs David Smith and Lenny Luchetti – will be great days – make plans – more detail to follow. AJ Plaizier resigned at Fredericton Corbett Ave yesterday and will be candidating soon at Yarmouth. I met with the LBA at Corbett on Thursday evening and will be working with […]
I was privileged to install Doug Tatton as the new pastor at West Head last Sunday. It was the first Sunday of 2016 as well as the Tattons first Sunday in their new assignment. After several years serving as Director of Silver Lake Camp in Ontario, it is good to welcome Doug and Rose back […]
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