Crosslands Church

Almost there…

Sunday, January 31, 2010 No Comments

Leaving at 12:10 am and arriving in Hong Kong at 4:20am (17 hours later) makes for a long, long night. I hope the plane seats are designed for safety because they’re certainly not designed for comfort. But we’re almost there…!

Saturday, January 30, 2010 No Comments

We leave tonight for Cambodia and the Philippines. We’ll touch base with Gary and Bev and Pastor Michael. I’m going to try to send regular updates on the blog as to what we’re doing. Keep checking in!

Facing the Dilemma

Tuesday, January 26, 2010 1 Comment

I had a conversation a couple of weeks ago with Jordan and Paige who come to Crosslands Church (we were in the office across the road…you know, the one that serves Tim Horton’s coffee and donuts). So they brought up the subject of ethical dilemmas–the kind you face in university philosophy classrooms. A man has [...]

This is How to Get Stuff Done…

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 No Comments

Quite a while ago, it came to our attention that Crosslands Community Dinner was short one speaker stand.  One speaker was on a stand; the other was on a table or something.  So Wade went and bought another speaker stand for them.  But because he doesn’t have time to get out to the Community Dinner [...]

Response from Sunday

Tuesday, January 12, 2010 No Comments

Sunday’s message was the first in our “Deeply Connecting with God” series, entitled “Communicating in Relationship.”  At one point in the message, I said that a marriage relationship is not simply defined by the wedding ceremony; that it should continue to grow and develop.  The parallel, our relationship with God, is the same.  If we [...]

Information and Experience

Wednesday, January 6, 2010 No Comments

Human beings are amazing.  From a very early age we’re throwing and catching balls.  This seems like a simple thing, but it takes into account a lot of variables–gravity, velocity, trajectory, mass.  These are Grade 10 Physics concepts that kids are mastering at age 8 and 9. But it’s not really the concepts they are [...]

Happy New Year!

Friday, January 1, 2010 No Comments

2009 comes to a close and an unofficial new decade is upon us! I look forward to great things this coming year (and this coming decade. One quick story from a couple of weeks ago. We had our Christmas Eve service recently–this time on December 24. One afternoon, Jordan came in to practice with Wade [...]