I'm Back Baby!!!!

I’m back baby!!! I’m big, bold, beautiful, bald, and blogging! I’m Back!!! Ok not so much on the bald thing but whatever. Boy Oh Boy does this feel good!! One more way to subject myself to this world!
Ok so quick re-cap for all those Tim fans out there. Our hero has been out of communiqué for just a little while and this is what has happened; He got himself a Girlfriend (Ok This is kinda old news, but there are still some of us out there reeling form this concept) A wonderful young Mennonite girl, fun, a little crazy, loves God, amazingly beautiful, what more could a guy ask for? Ok then he goes on down to Kamloops for a weekend and comes back with a call to be a pastor in a new church plant in good ol’ GP!! Ok kinda crazy! pretty excited, insanely nervous but hey such is life. If God calls he will provide the means so… Here I stand, I can do no other. Then Mr. Tim goes off to another country for a couple weeks. Mexico was outlandishly amazing!!! We took a little mission trip on down to Juarez Mexico right across the border from El Paso TX. WOW man what an experience I must admit I did not expect much more than a big headache. After all it was four flights and a four hour van drive right through the middle of the desert with twelve youth... Well "youth" most of them should have been able to plan their own mission trip and here I am taking them on a trip pretty much designed for high school students not collage and career students, even if they were very young C&C students.
Anyway God threw me right back on my kiester. Did he ever move in a powerful way. The first three days of the trip were training and God spoke so powerfully to each and every person! like lives were transformed! I have seen my share of big high weekends where people get all moved by God, feel on cloud nine then come on home and pack it away in the closet till the next time to act super spiritual comes along, but in the mean time life continues as normal. Oh no there was none of that! Ok maybe a little of that but much more than that was the way that God really shook up some lives. The outreach for the next week was evidence of that. People who would normally hardly talk about their faith were kneeling with people and praying with them to accept Jesus. There were testimonies after testimony how God spoke to them and not like "Jesus Spoke to me and showed me how pretty a daisy is", but really spoke into their lives. People were saved Man that was Huge!!!!
Anyway even the age thing was no big deal there was a lot less nose wiping sort of deal and a lot more encouragement and allowing them to step up to the plate and beyond allowing them to become the leaders and help each other it was really cool!
Anyway so yeah Mexico was great!
Then I was back in Canada and took some holidays for a week, saw some friends did some camping hung out at home a little. Then it was back in Ponoka for one more week of sad good-byes and setting up the garage sale, also known as the gong show sale. We bought ourselves a brand new tarp for the huge tent that we use for this event, the other one was pretty full of holes and leaked a lot. The new one worked fantastic it held all the water off the tables that was until all the water that collected on the tarp (as there wer no holes to let it out) after one huge shower crushed the inch and a half piping that made up the frame work and the whole thing came crashing down on all our wonderful merchandise. Apparently God did bless our holy tent and sent us it for a purpose. Anyway so our three days of work were not wasted we shed off the tent people just starts showing up way before the advertised time for the sale to start and we sold off a lot of junk the next day we made another make-shift tent and all was well.
Yesterday was the big day. A few more tearful good-byes at the church. I am going to miss Ponoka like crazy. Before going there I had all but lost faith in the church. I knew there were still good people but figured the church in the west at least had turned into some sort of clubhouse mentality that was really of no use to God or to me. So I was going to go work with the Youth pray that God would use me to show them a bigger world and a more meaningful faith, but I was going to stay away from as much "churchiness" as possible. And he did use me mostly in ways I was oblivious too which was probably why it worked so well. But He sure used them to show me his church is alive and well, And that you really can tell his people by their love. Love for others (even foolish young youth pastors who have almost no organizational skills, but their learning), and most importantly Love for Jesus. If not for Trinity In Ponoka I really don’t think I would have continued on in ministry. But that’s all God’s plan so Who am I to speculate on that.
So Yeah that after noon we packed up the truck. Ok I really am the luckiest guy ion the world. Not only did Erika come on down with a truck to pack all my stuff in but while I was running around moving tarps and collapsed tents she packed up my apartment almost single-handedly. Then cleaned it too and you do not need to know me well to figure out my cleaning habits are not exactly hospital standard. I mean I did vacuum and wipe down the counters from time to time but the place was pretty gross by the time she got to the back corners and such. Anyway what a wonderful girl.
So Now I am back In GP living with the Parents till I can find a place for myself. GP either the rent is more than I make in a year or there is a waiting list just as long. This town is nuts!! But I have faith something will come up. Anyway I guess I should go for now I know this was a doosy and good for you who were able to stick it out to the bitter end I should be able to keep up to more regular updates so hopefully the average will not be this crazy. Love you guys, have fun in all things.
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