I, John, am your brother and your partner in suffering and in God’s Kingdom and in the patient endurance to which Jesus calls us.  Rev 1:9    Patient Endurance.  I started a study on the book of Revelations.  In the first chapter, I was grabbed by these words, and I dwelled on them for quite a while.  Patient endurance.  What does that mean?  What does that look like?  Why is this part of how Jesus calls us?  I like to think that I am a patient, calm person.  Waiting and enduring in this process of life.  Waiting for residency papers, waiting to travel, waiting for ministry, waiting for groups and visitors, waiting for direction and guidance; waiting.  To have the strength and ability, the endurance, to embrace fully, this life, this country, this culture and language. To endure through times of transition.  To endure through the times of joyfulness or sadness.  But I have to admit, I’ve been impatient and frustrated in these processes.  Sometimes really, really frustrated.  I question my ‘endurance’, question my direction and question myself.  But I also have to admit that I have been called; I placed my life in His hands.  I only need to continue walking forward.  Saying Yes. Patiently Enduring. What did this look like in May?  Let me start by sharing about life […]

Esto es para ustedes motivo de gran alegría, a pesar de que hasta ahora han tendí que sufrir diversas, pruebas por un tiempo.  El oro, aunque perecedero, se acrisola al fuego.  Así también la fe de ustedes que vale mucho mas que el oro, al ser acrisolada por las pruebas demostrara que es digna de aprobación, gloria y honor cuando Jesucristo se revele. 1 Pedro 1:6-7 (NVI) So be truly glad.  There is wonderful joy ahead, even though you have to endure many trials for a while.  These trials will show that your faith is genuine.  It is being tested as fire tests and purifies gold – though your faith is far more precious than mere gold.  So when your faith remains strong through many trials, it will bring you much praise and glory and honour on the day when Jesus Christ is revealed to the whole world.  1 Peter 1:6-7 (NLT) Do you ever wish you could turn back time?  Return to a moment and make an adjustment that would change an outcome?  Say something different? Do something different? Take a different road? But think about it; if one event is changed, what are the repercussions, the consequences of this?  Would everything else stay as it ‘should’ have been or would absolutely everything now be different?  We don’t know those answers, we can’t understand these outcomes, but sitting […]

Now faith is confidence in what we hope of and assurance about what we do not see – Hebrews 11:1 Where did the month of July go?  It has been a very full, and very busy month for me.  I left Canada and arrived in my new home country of Argentina.  This has been a month of reconnecting and catching up with old friends.  There have been many, many conversations about this past year and at times, my heart was very full.  This has been a month of sharing some deep conversations about walking in faith, especially when we don’t see, don’t understand, and sometimes don’t agree with the path; and of course, all in castillano (Argentine Spanish).  We seem to be understanding each other although there have been some great laughs as we each try to explain something.  A mi me like; greek/griego yogurt and so much more! I have truly been cared for here.  I am absolutely part of so many families. And I know, very strongly, in my heart that I am where I am supposed to be. This was also confirmed when Pastora Leliana in Neuquen shared Isaiah 41:9-10 during a powerful time of scripture. We’re on our way South  Love the keys here Sharing wedding Memories with Pastor Ivan and Pastora Sandra, their family and other […]