We continued north toward the Sea of where we took a short boat ride. The owner and captain of the boat was a Christian who had written and recorded a number of hymns in Hebrew. When we arrived at our destination, we had a meal and one of the options on the menu was St. […]
In 2013 Iona and I embarked on one of the most amazing adventures of our lives – we went to Israel! What an adventure it was! We went with a group of pastors and wives, and it was organized by Christian Journeys out of North Bay Ontario. I highly recommend them to anyone that would […]
I retired from the Canadian Bible Society in 2013 but I wasn’t ready for a full retirement. I still had a lot of energy and passion. I told Iona that if I fully retired and didn’t take on some other responsibilities I could end up sitting on my front step, yelling at children for walking […]
Our journey to Rwanda was over and we flew to Cairo for the last leg of our African adventure. Cairo is an amazing city! It has a population of over 10 million and its streets are crowded with cars, buses, trucks, donkey carts and camels. And it seems that everybody smokes. We often drove by […]
It was difficult for me to measure time while I was in Rwanda. We actually spent less than a week there, but it felt so much longer. There was so much to take in. It is a country that would seem to have reason to suffer from national PTSD, yet it refers to itself as […]
Rather than staying at a hotel, we went to a Methodist guest house. We were picked up in the mornings by Bible Society staff and were driven around Nairobi. It was the first African city I had ever visited. A lot different than Canadian and American cities. We were taken to one of the largest […]
The year after our cross-Canada bike ride I had another amazing adventure – I went to Africa. Yowza! The Canadian Bible Society had a program for the district directors called “Travel for Training”. After 5 years of service each of the directors was eligible to take a trip to areas that were receiving funds from […]
We made it home. Have been reflecting on our trip to Mexico and my attitude toward the trip has changed. I had thought about it as a vacation but now I think of our condo in Nuevo as another home. We have made many new friendships and are part of a different community. On Saturday […]
With this post I wish to make a public apology for statements I made about the Rev. Robert Deasley, who had pastored the Church of the Nazarene in Rimbey. His son Stephen commented on my blog and pointed out where I had misrepresented his father. Rather than trying to paraphrase him, I will present his […]
By the time we made it through the Rockies I started to hit my stride. I had become a sort of unofficial chaplain on the ride. I was asked many mornings to share a devotional thought before we climbed into our saddles and began pedaling. After the ride I gathered a number of these devotionals […]