What an amazing 12-year journey we had with the Canadian Bible Society. Met some fantastic people that taught me an awful lot and had some almost unbelievable adventures. I learned a lot about the history of this venerable old organization. I learned that it was once an extension of the British and Foreign Bible Society […]
Wow! I had made it through my SARS scare unscathed and could now fully concentrate on my new job. There is a congregation of the Church of the Nazarene in Saskatoon. My good friend Doug Cooney had returned from Manchester and had accepted the assignment to serve as pastor in the Louise Street Community Church. […]
I needed to have my ankle operated on, so early the next morning Iona drove me to the Royal University Hospital to begin the process. We were at the hospital for around 6 hours, waiting and waiting. Finally saw an orthopedic surgeon who said he would schedule me for surgery the next day at City […]
In July of 2002 we moved to Saskatoon, and I started a 12 year journey that would end in my returning to pastoral ministry in May of 2014. And what a journey it was! I met some amazing people during my time with the Canadian Bible Society (CBS). People from all denominations and backgrounds. We […]
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 […]