April 29 - May 6 Popcorn: Chrissie's Birthday, C.S. Lewis on Love, A Canadian in Danger, and Iraq
Happy 21st Birthday, Chrissie! (April 28, 2006) Lord, be with Chrissie as she embarks on her last year of Bible/Teacher's college, and guide her as she moves into the next phase of her life.
Dating. Ben Weeks cc'd me on an email this week:
This essay really blew my mind. It just looks at attitudes towards courtship within Christian circles and deconstructs them.
The essay [by Robin Phillips] begins with this quote [by C.S. Lewis],
"There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
I found it shocking. [Now] I feel feel empowered and new!
You probably don't know who this guy is, and you will probably never meet him. But he needs your prayers.
Sean O'Byrne, a new friend of mine and a full-time worker with his wife in Barrie, Ontario, asks us to pray for him:
Please pray for Wayne and Veronica Guindon (in the prayer handbook) in El Salvador. They were assualted by a gang of guys in balaclavas and sawed-off shotguns. They only wanted "liquid cash", not being interested in anything other than $, jewelry and cell phones. Wayne suspects they are trying to spring their leader from prison. They came back a week later and did it again.They were quite traumatized as Vero and the kids were hiding in a closet as they had Wayne at gunpoint. They were forced to leave their home, fearing kidnapping, and are staying at a friend's. They had just returned from furlough in Canada. Now it looks like they are considering moving to Canada for now. The problem is that Vero, being Guatemalan, would have to apply for residency which is proving very complicated. They are making it very hard for her to emmigrate to Canada. ... Wayne is a dear brother and friend. He would be content to lay down his life on the field rather than return but is being a good father to his young family. He is burdened and in need of our prayers.
Pray for Iraq: + 4,500 Iraqis and 2,400 U.S. soldiers have died + The Sunni and Sh'ia muslims are attacking each other and dividing the country + The Turks are threatening from the north + Iran, to the East, is causing international headaches + U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld is under fire for "bungling the war" as U.S. generals call for his resignation + The new Iraqi government is weak and haltering + The Iraqi people don't know who to trust; many want the American troops to leave + The violence of suicide bombers and muslim extremist terrorist seems to be an un-solvable problem
This picture (click for full size) of an Iraqi child giving a U.S. soldier 'five' reminds us that all of the people involved are just that -- people.
Lord, we pray for Iraq. Use the unrest to reach her people with the solution: Yourself. Out of the shambles of Iraq, build your Church.
Pray for Shawn C. With another shooting in their area, the sudden uncertainty surrounding their two 'kids' Cookie and Kellz, and a host of other challenges in their lives--read all about it at Shawn's blog--these guys need our prayers. My friends Brit, Chris and Will and I dropped by Shawn's youth group last night, and got slaughtered in basketball by his guys. As one of them put it, "Old skool vs. new skool, and new skool won."
1 Sat eve ~N's b'day party 2 Sun 4pm Malkutha Bible mtg 3 Mon (1) 9:30am VT prayer, (2) 8pm ph call (NC in Australia) 5 Wed 1pm lunch (M/KW) - Mississauga 6 Thu (1) 11am mtg (JSh), (2) 1pm funeral (An.; JeNY staying over) 7-8 Fri-Sat w/ boys (~J working Fri and at shower in Oshawa on Sat) 9 Sun (1) Church, (2) poss. lunch (PY/AC) 10 Mon Kids Kapers party (stat. holiday) 10-16 Mon-Sun holiday - Collingwood (GV passed away 14/Apr) 16 Sun baby dedication - Scarborough 21 Fri MVT board mtg 22-24 Sat-Mon Winnipeg ministry trip
MAY
2 Tue 2:40pm med appt 3 Wed 12:30pm l'ship mtg 4 Thu 2:30pm video mtg (Ppls,JBau) 5 Fri time w/ TW; ~Ch dropoff/pickup (~J working) 6 Sat eve special dinner for Som/Saj 9 Tue 3:30pm video mtg (AA) 10 Wed (1) 8:30am Int'l steering mtg, (2) 12:30pm l'ship mtg 11 Thu 11:30am brunch (JMy) - Newmarket 12 Fri 8pm ~J w/ friend (NaG) 13 Sat SL w/ boys 14 Sun (1) Ppls Church, (2) 4pm neighbourhood Bible mtg 15 Mon (1) 9:30am VT prayer, (2) 1:30pm video med appt, (3) 3:30pm hosting ORU students, (4) 5:30pm dinner w/ JY/L + dessert w/ others 16 Tue (1) 11am mtg (KBr), (2) 7:30pm prayer mtg 17 Wed 12:30pm l'ship mtg 18 Thu SL w/ ~Ch 19 Fri 3:15pm ~Co's b'day party 20 Sat ~Co's b'day 22 Mon SL w/ ~J/C/C, Som/S, MG, Mp+ 23 Tue (1) 11am video mtg (Saj/I), (2) 12:15pm ph call (AA) 24 Wed (1) 9am video mtg (SM+), (2) 12:30pm l'ship mtg 25 Thu 3pm video mtg (JSh)
27 Sat (1) 11am Commencement speaker at R. University, (2) ~3pm+ time w/ V/AR+ 29 Mon (1) 9:30am VT prayer, (2) 3pm mtg DerCh - Mississauga 30 Tue (1) 10am ph call (AA), (2) 5:30pm video mtg (IsTan), (3) 8pm neighbourhood prayer mtg
JUNE 1 Thu (1) 11:30am Zoom mtg (LM), (2) 4pm mtg (VS,KBr) 2 Fri (1) 10:30am ph call (PVDW; SL w/ boys; ~J working) 3 Sat SL w/ boys and MG 5 Mon (1) 9:30am VT prayer mtg, (2) 2pm Europe call, (3) 4pm mtg/walk (YM) 6 Tue 7:30pm worship night 9 Fri ~J's b'day 10 Sat North Bay trip 13 Tue ~J school trip w/ ~Co | (text BD) 14 Thu 11am mtg (DAy) - Unionville 16 Fri (1) 9am video med appt, (2) 15-km run (Prayer Journey "warm-up") 17 Sat Prayer Journey (my own: 50km GTA bike-ride) and GTA after-party 29 ... July 7 Thu-Fri poss. holiday in Arkansas
JULY ... 7 Thu-Fri poss. holiday in Arkansas ~8-17 SA+ in Toronto; P/H Bell likely visiting too 17-21 Mon-Fri Kids Kapers camp 24 Mon 2:45pm med. appt 26 Wed (1) 3pm Zoom mtg (SMa,SB), (2) 7pm ~J speaking at Greenhouse/Zoe - UofT downtown 27 Thu 10am video MVT board mtg 31 Mon 3:05pm med. appt July/Aug CCWM board mtg / AGM
AUGUST 6-12 Sun-Fri Cottage w/ O/DN+ and UB/AC - Windermere; plus Muskoka 19 Sat poss. ~J fam beach day - Brighton area 25-29 Fri-Tue MoveIn staff retreat - southern Ontario
2023+ Sep 21 Thu - MVT board mtg Sep 23 Sat poss. date of GV memorial Sep 24 Sun ~Ch's b'day Sep ~26-28 Poss. time in Lushnjë, Albania Sep 29 - Oct 6 MoveIn Europe Conference+ - Durrës, Albania Oct 21 Sat poss./unlikely date of GV memorial Oct 21-27 Dollar-a-Day week Early Nov Poss. fundraising event - Niagara Nov-Jan Poss. time in India - Goa; Philippines - Manila+; Indonesia - Jakarta/Bali; LA/San Diego
Happy 21st Birthday, Chrissie! (April 28, 2006) Lord, be with Chrissie as she embarks on her last year of Bible/Teacher's college, and guide her as she moves into the next phase of her life."There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. ... The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."
You probably don't know who this guy is, and you will probably never meet him. But he needs your prayers.They were quite traumatized as Vero and the kids were hiding in a closet as they had Wayne at gunpoint. They were forced to leave their home, fearing kidnapping, and are staying at a friend's. They had just returned from furlough in Canada. Now it looks like they are considering moving to Canada for now. The problem is that Vero, being Guatemalan, would have to apply for residency which is proving very complicated. They are making it very hard for her to emmigrate to Canada. ... Wayne is a dear brother and friend. He would be content to lay down his life on the field rather than return but is being a good father to his young family. He is burdened and in need of our prayers.
Pray for Iraq:
Pray for Shawn C. With another shooting in their area, the sudden uncertainty surrounding their two 'kids' Cookie and Kellz, and a host of other challenges in their lives--read all about it at Shawn's blog--these guys need our prayers. My friends Brit, Chris and Will and I dropped by Shawn's youth group last night, and got slaughtered in basketball by his guys. As one of them put it, "Old skool vs. new skool, and new skool won."
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