Canadian Evangelism

 Saturday June 11 was Alpha Lab at Beulah Alliance Church in Edmonton. Beulah is a fantastic Alpha church. They run over 30 Alpha's a year. The dynamo behind Alpha at Beulah is Angie LaFavor . If only we could clone her a few hundred times over. Angie and Beulah are always ready to jump to action on behalf of Alpha whenever they are called. Planning for this Lab day we initially started off thinking that 40 to 50 people would be a reasonable number. We would be happy with that. By the time Saturday rolled around, we had 160. Steve Mulder, Alpha Canada's Director of Ministries, and John Kreklo, National Prison Alpha Coordinator came from BC to help run the day, in addition to Angie, Amy Croy and myself. The day felt a bit long, lasting from 9 to 3, but over all it went fairly well. Feedback forms were generally positive, but with a few helpful comments on how we could improve things. We are all agreed that our Lab format is a work in progress and are continually tweaking thin...

The reason for the title is that I have a few things to catch up with in my posting, and I had to pause to remember which one was next.   This was our latest fundraiser, An Evening of Fun and Entertainment. It was at the Chateau Louis Hotel Conference Centre.  This time I wanted to help raise funds not only for my own ministry, but for that of Amy Croy, my close associate and Youth Associate for Alberta.   I must admit it was a challenge. I am not a great organizer, and often leave things until closer to the last minute than I should. My friend Steve does business with the hotel and so was able to get us a reasonable rate for dinner. The food and service, by the way, are first rate. We had about 80 seats sold, about half the number we had last time we did this, a year and a half ago. However, two tables that were sold neglected to show up, so we had way fewer attendees than we had hoped.   All that aside, the evening went very well and all those we talked to enj...

It's been a bit of a hectic time lately, so time to catch up on my posting. The end of May and beginning of June saw the Assembly of Christian and Missionary Alliance delegates from across Canada, 1200 in all, gather at First Alliance in Calgary. I was there with Shaila Visser, Alpha Canada's National Director. What a wonderful week it was - filled with great conversations, encouraging stories, and potential new opportunities. The majority of guests with whom we spoke were familiar with Alpha, Alliance Churches being one of the main denominations to run Alpha, but still it was great to share about all the new resources and programs here and coming from Alpha. One of the highlights for me was to see Shaila, "work the room." The networking opportunities were numerous as it was, but Shaila manufactures her own skillfully. She seemed to know practically everyone there as it was, but many of those she didn't certainly knew her by the end of the conference. Here is a sh...