You can click to download our December 2020 newsletter in PDF format, or read it online at the bottom of the post (only one page for this special Christmas edition). I’ve also included the Ascension Christmas greeting video below. It…
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No, you haven’t missed anything. I was not able to get out an October 2020 newsletter. That would be the first monthly newsletter I missed in seven years. With respect, though, I was rather busy: 7,345 miles and 39 visits…
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It’s six months since we have had to adapt to new ways of doing mission and ministry, because of Canada’s response to COVID-19. Download our September 2020 Newsletter, or read it online below. I’ve also created a 16-minute YouTube video…
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Two years ago this month I was preparing for our biennial network reconnect trip. Olivia and Sophia were looking forward to a visit with Old Missionary Gary and friends in Mapleton, IA and connecting with folks in Houston, TX. I…
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We are four months into the effects of the COVID 19 pandemic here in Quebec, and life remains so different from what it was at the beginning of 2020. Our annual missionary conference – cancelled. Our annual summer trip back…
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We welcome the summer of 2020, but not as we expected to welcome it back in the cold of winter. We are welcoming it through masks, at a distance from loved ones, behind closed borders. Yet the Lord is with…
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Another month has passed, and another anniversary: in June we begin our 7th year of service with the Office of International Mission of The LCMS. Read about the month that was below in our newsletter, or download it in PDF…
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Someone on the internet joked that 2020 is an unusual year: February has 29 days instead of 28, March has 300 days and April is five years long. A Lutheran church in Winnipeg asked on their church sign if we…
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To help folks get through this unprecedented pandemic and all that comes with it – lockdowns, quarantines, loss of income, sickness and death – I’ve turned “Mid-Week with Christ” into a twice-weekly podcast. Listen below, or follow Mid-Week with Christ…
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Folks who have been reading my newsletter for the last six years have gotten used to seeing the familiar “Work Up North” and “Work Down South” sections on the front page. This month, there is only one: “Work under Covid-19.”…
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