Winnipeg was a tough time for us. Now that doesn’t mean that it was all bad and that there weren’t really good bits as well. When we first arrived, we knew that Laura wasn’t very happy with the move. She had just begun fitting in in Edmonton. The church in Winnipeg had very few girls […]
After a little less than 2 years there were big changes at Southside, that affected us greatly. Stan had resigned and taken a church in the United States. Reg Graves from Brampton came to succeed Stan. Our lives would intertwine when my life as a pastor came to an end. The other big change was […]
Somehow, I didn’t recognize the storm that was brewing just over the horizon. It started very innocently when our District Superintendent came to Rimbey to meet with the board and myself. The purpose was my regular performance evaluation. Each of the board members had submitted their individual evaluations of my performance as their pastor. Overall, […]
We left Fort Saskatchewan and began a ministry in Rimbey, Alberta in September of 1988. It began with such promise! In Fort Saskatchewan I learned a lot about expository preaching. Over the course of 42 sermons, I preached verse by verse through the book of Ephesians. When we arrived in Rimbey I began to explore […]
We arrived in Rimbey September 1988, just three months before the Christmas season. This is a magic time of year and we wanted to make it very special. In our first Christmas in Rimbey we decided to go carolling. Stuart Lister had a team of draft horses and a hay rack that he used to […]
Kathy Rawley certainly was the most unusual and interesting person I’d ever met, but there were other rather colourful people who spent time at the Rimbey Church of the Nazarene. Maybe the most colourful of this group was a man I had never met, but whose shadow was certainly seen through the congregation. That was […]
Kathy Rawley was one of the most unusual and interesting people I have ever met in my life. I think she was in her 80s when we arrived. Before we came to Rimbey, she lived in a little house just north of town. There she earned herself the nickname of “the cat lady”. I’ll let […]
When we arrived in Fort Saskatchewan in September of 1982 to begin our first ministry assignment, I wanted to be there for a long time, also realizing that the time would probably come when I would have to leave. But how would I know? I was pretty sure that I wouldn’t get an engraved announcement […]
This next lesson is somewhat difficult for me to discuss because it was so painful. It was also very personal as it had to do with my health. It started over 50 years ago when I was a young man in my 20s. I would have episodes that are still very difficult for me to […]
I’ve been thinking about lessons that God has allowed into my life, and I realized that sometimes these lessons came in some rather odd wrapping. In fact, many times I hadn’t even realized they were lessons until some time had passed. I actually believe that somewhere in every experience is a life lesson. Romans 8:28 […]