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<\/p>\nI write this as I wait at the Kelowna Airport to fly to Vancouver and then onto Minneapolis for Gather ’18. \u00a0This is a trip of saying goodbye to friends and family – it’s only two years, but seems huge since I’ll be on a different continent, in a different hemisphere, what seems to some as a different world. \u00a0This is a trip of getting to boast about Argentina, along with introducing my friend, Ivan Carrasco, from Argentina. \u00a0It will be a trip of memories – just a year ago; being commissioned together as New Missionaries.<\/p>\n
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As I embark on this exciting next stage of this journey of life, I’d like to ask something of my friends and family. \u00a0July 19th would have been our wedding anniversary. \u00a0Max and I would have been married for 21 years and together for 28 years. \u00a0I’d like this to be a day of celebration. \u00a0Would you celebrate with me? \u00a0Would you be willing to do that one thing that as a couple, or as a single, you always say your going to do or would like to do …. but never do. \u00a0It might be something as simple as being a tourist in your own town and seeing the museum, going to a play, something big like going ziplining or for a hike up Idaho Peak or having a picnic at Monica Meadows. \u00a0Whatever that one thing is that you just drove past and said ‘We should go there one day’ or ‘I should do that once’ – DO IT. For Max and I it was stopping at the big green truck in Sparwood. \u00a0For years; maybe 15 years, we drove past that saying ‘one of these trips we should stop there just for the fun of it’. \u00a0We finally did, and that was the last ‘zany, silly, fun’ thing we did. \u00a0Max is still a huge part of my life, a part of who I am; but these days, the hole that he left behind is slowly being filled with Christ, with a call on my life to serve Him, with a compelling to continue to walk in Faith, to Trust and be fully Surrendered and Obedient.<\/p>\n
This poem was sent to me from Natasha in Chestemere, AB. \u00a0How fitting it is. \u00a0I go to Argentina, together with Max, together with Christ, together with all of you.<\/p>\n
TOGETHER
\nI come to you, my fears I give
\nI come to you, my hopes I give
\nI come to you, my arms stretched wide<\/p>\n
Fill my heart with you O Lord
\nEmbrace me Lord, wrapped in your love
\nGuide me down this winding road
\nCarry me over the mountains high<\/p>\n
I walk with you, my fears now gone
\nI walk with you, my hopes embraced
\nI walk with you arm in arm<\/p>\n
Your love so large I cannot contain
\nBut with you in my life, now I live.<\/p>\n
Natasha Backs
\nLake Ridge Community Church
\nCalgary, Alberta<\/p>\n