Can you Imagine the Potential?

Family after family walks into Centre Court with the mixed expression of utter exhaustion and cautious optimism. They walk through tables of paperwork and look for the calming and familiar face of Imagine Ministries leader Shirley Martens. They find her smiling face and their once cautious optimism begins to grow.

Their child runs into Centre Court where a hoard of bright neon green shirts awaits them. The volunteers filling those shirts range in ages, ethnicities and life experiences that can truly only be found in the Body of Christ. The child (and often their siblings) is matched up with a volunteer or two for the evening and they make their way to a coloring book, or a puzzle or some other low energy pastimes.

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She Loves

Dear Friends,

This year’s Women’s Ministries Theme – She Loves – certainly captured our imagination. We learned about and internalized the love of Jesus, the One and Only. We sought God for ways to give that love away:
• The weekly Prayer groups gave love through intercession. 
• The Swap loved through sharing what we have.
• The Home Tours gave love through the Abbotsford Food Bank.
• The Christmas Party gave love through Best for Babies.
• The Beth Moore Simulcast gave love to women in our community and in Guatemala.

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Another Couple of Restaurants…

A few months ago, I posted some recommendations for lunch here in Abbotsford. Some disagreed with my choices, but we all know that those people didn’t know what they were talking about. Only I have the truth when it comes to good restaurants in this town. The sooner you all realize that, the better off we will all be.

In light of the sheer magnitude of my rightness when it comes to these sorts of things, let me add a couple of other restaurants to the list. If you try these out, you will be happy. If you don’t, you will live a substandard existence for the foreseeable future.

Here they are (drum roll, please)…

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What generation are you living for?

In Coleman’s’ book, The Master Plan of Evangelism, he asks the question: “What generation are you living for?”  If you are like me, it will cause you to pause and think.  Where is your focus … really?  What are your priorities … who/what do you care about? The here, now, me and mine … or do you desire to look beyond yourself in order to give of yourself to others. I believe that the later is the desire of the majority of us. So, do we understand the biblical implications and responsibilities of reaching beyond ourselves to the ones who come after us? In an article written by Mark Steiner, he states that “In this generation as never before, cultural gravity relentlessly pulls Christian children down – and they are drowning. 

Statistics warn us that eight of every ten Christian kids are drinking in the world’s value system.”  Can we honestly say that we are concerned about the generation that is currently flooding the hallways and classrooms of our own church?  Namely, kids?  Noisy, messy, bouncy, happy and sometimes grumpy kids!  Scripture confirms that kids are valuable, so valuable in fact that Jesus uses children to illustrate the way each of us need to come to Him. “Unless you turn and become like children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.” And in another place Jesus adds, “Let the little children come to me and do not hinder them.  For to such belongs the kingdom of heaven.”  God has placed kids here to carry on His plan, long after we are gone. Children believe easily but God does not want us to be unaware of the importance He places on loving, caring and training of these children.  It needs to be intentional; kids must be taught to obey, to respect God and others, to praise God and to serve. 

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6 Reasons Abbotsford is Cool

I have noticed a lot of negative talk about our fair city in the papers and on the news lately.

We have a rising gang problem, a lot of grow-ops, a new sex trade, a $2 million video board for our new really expensive arena, and a park (Albert Dyck) built around a manmade lake with lots of goose droppings and beer cans (OK, nobody is writing about that last one, but I still have yet to see the merit in that particular park just yet). So, I thought I would try to counterbalance all the negative with some positive.

Here are six reasons why Abbotsford is cool…

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