You know when you are watching TV and you get this idea of what Africa is like. Houses made out of garbage, dirt roads, people walking/sitting around everywhere. Today was a day like that. It blew my mind. I went with a nurse named Tulee to do some home based care visits today, and everything […]
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Today was a great day. Rachel and I spent the day with the children at K2, a preschool for orphaned children. We ate some pape (boiled corn meal) with a soup like dip for it. The children were beautiful. It was hard to imagine none of them had parents. I sat in class with Cindi
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We are finally here. While its 10am in Sarnia, its 4pm here and we are all exhausted. Charity and Shane lost their main big piece of luggage and found out that it is all the way in Detroit. It never ever made it at all along the way. We’re going to try to get it
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Well, we have started our trip. Rachel and I are sitting in the Chicago airport waiting for Charity and Shane to arrive (which we gave them 40% chance of making it on time). It wasn’t without our mishaps and problems getting here. The long wait on the Bluewater Bridge, the traffic jam in Port Huron
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We did a baptism for Shaelyn Silvestri two Sunday’s ago at theStory, here are some pictures from the beach day. I was just feeling the black and white shots. Here are the ones that aren’t posted.
This one is close to my post called Consumerism: Something that Will Last. However, now I’m going to take a look into the idea of reliability. So we want something that will last long into the future but we also want something that is going to be reliable here and now and not let us
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This morning I got to go on K106.3, a Sarnia radio station, for an interview for the Rock, Paper, Scissors Championship tonight. For more info on the championship go here. I got to talk about the tournament while Dave Burgess and Ally Kendel competed for their own bet. You can listen to the interview below
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The movie I chose today is called Lars and the Real Girl. How many got a chance to see the movie? Lars and the Real girl is a story about an extremely shy guy in a small town. Through a few events he ends up buying a sex doll on the Internet and introduces her
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This summer we are doing a series on books, movies and music and talking about where God is found in them. I did Adbusters Magazine and Lars and the Real Girl (which will be posted this week also.) So here is basically what I prepared with the quotes and everything, though the conversation is usually
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I am an intentional non-voter. I never bought into the “duty” lectures or many other reasons why its important that I vote. David Fitch wrote a great post on not voting. ———————– Next Reformation quotes Reggie McNeal The kingdom is the destination. In its institutional existence the church abandoned its real identity and reason for
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Hand-to-hand combat hard to beat Posted By CATHY DOBSON, THE OBSERVER Thank-you for that picture selection. ROCK, PAPER, SCISSORS EVENT TO BE HELD IN SARNIA AUG. 6 Look out baseball fans, there’s a new sport in town. Sarnia’s first Rock, Paper, Scissors tournament is coming Aug. 6 and the buzz has would-be competitors engaging in
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In two last ditch efforts to raise some funds before we head off to South Africa we are running the Rock Paper Scissors championship and also doing a voting war to shave Shane’s head or save his hair. Whatever side gets the most votes gets their wish. $1 a vote, any votes you can make
I’m going to start a series of posts on my observations of our consumer culture. I’m trying to get a handle on my own desires, fairly judge the norm around me and hopefully offer some new insights or at least old insights into how should we respond. These posts aren’t directed to anyone but are
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Sometimes I am a little thrown off at what some people consider dangerous. It isn’t so much the dangerous act that I think is safe, but rather where people are coming from when they consider something dangerous. For instance, Rachel and I live in the south end of Sarnia. We have been warned numerous times
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As one last final fundraiser before we leave for South Africa, I thought I would run a tournament that is close to my heart. We are only selling 128 tickets, to buy your ticket online here now to guarantee your spot. WWW.SARNIARPS.COM
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For the last few years there has been talk about Shell building another oil plant here in Sarnia, that would more than triple their oil production. People were speculating, some were certain. The house prices went up, which people think was because the plant was coming and Sarnia was getting ready for a big boom.
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Dave and Jordan, a few of my friends, started Ride for Africycle. Their next ride is 1000km. Africycle is a charitable organization bringing people together to improve access to bicycles in Africa. They are taking donations for it, you should give them something. ———————– For my American friends. 1 time fee, $250 and then unlimited
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I’ve always thought that those weren’t saved didn’t have a lot to offer to the world. The best chance they had to offer something was maybe using a good movie clip in one of my messages sometime. But really I only thought it was brilliant because I found the clip and it worked with what
Depending on our convictions, all of our priorities will differ. I have a few close friends whose priorities of eating healthy are at the top of his list; so high that they were willing to make massive lifestyle changes to live in tune with his convictions. This confuses a lot of people, including myself at
Last week Rachel, Joe, Jared and I drove a couple thousand kilometers around the East Coast and filmed a bunch of churches for One Size Fits All to finish off the filming. Here are some of my favourite pictures from the week.
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