Aches and Praise Three Hundred & Eleven

Posted on 2017-08-23 in English |

Dear friends,  

 

This Saturday, our daughter, Candace, will marry Richard Pendred at Parkside Ranch, where they met several years ago at a snow camp. Going to camp was a highlight of many summers for me. I went to a day camp at Cap St-Jacques in the West Island of Montreal and really enjoyed that until one of my friends broke his kneecap. I then went to a camp on the Quebec side of the Ottawa River, where I met a counsellor from Bermuda (on my bucket list of places to visit). For five summers, my parents drove me to Ottawa and even made a second trip there one summer, when I got tonsillitis and had to leave camp early.

Isn’t it a good thing that we don’t know in advance what will happen to us? If we knew what was going to happen, we would shy away from doing so many things and would miss out on a lot of blessings.

Candace and Richie came back from directing Teen Camp at Parkside Ranch earlier this month with colds and sore throats, but they saw the Lord touch the lives of close to eighty young people, including several from China. You can listen to a sermon that Richie gave in his home church at: http://cheshirebible.sermon.net/main/main/20965753.
 
By God’s grace, the next edition of this blog will mark six years since I felt a burden from God (an “ache” in my soul) to write a weekly letter to encourage believers in their spiritual walk and to share prayer requests. The Lord is at work around the world. We look forward to meeting people from every ethnic group in heaven!
 

Scripture for the weekend: “However, as it is written: ‘No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him’” 1 Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)  

Thought for the weekend: “Computers and software all differ, but one can’t function without the other; so husbands and wives are to each other – indispensable.” – Dr. John S. Barnett (from his book “The Joy of a Word Filled Family”)
 
 

By His grace,

 

Steve

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