Greetings to our brothers and sisters at Wallenstein,
It's been a quiet family day for Heather and I. Well, not completely quiet. Heather's been on the phone with quite a number of people, I've been in touch with a variety of people by email, text and telephone. It's kind of a normal day.
Yesterday I spoke to the Spirit of Truth church by zoom. It was their 16th anniversary as a church. I was interested to show pictures to them of all of the locations where they have met since they began… including on zoom. This lockdown is pretty hard on them. They are a very relational people, not being able to meet, kiss or hug is a big problem! I said to them that perhaps the first day when we get to meet again we can spend the first two hours just hugging!
I would really appreciate your prayer for my friend Indy who is still in Burma after one year. Five or six of us have been meeting with him for prayer on zoom every Friday morning since then. We are especially concerned now because of the military crackdown taking place there. Because of his somewhat controversial past in his own country, it's even more dangerous for him.
On Wednesday morning of this week I will have zoom call at five in the morning with seven or eight leaders from around the world. It will be 9 p.m. for the Aussie! Each of them are responsible for a network of churches in their country. We will be hearing from each one of them, what have been your most strategic joys in the past year? And what are your most strategic challenges for the coming year? Each person will be speaking to those two questions.
You may have heard this but Heather's mother passed away last week. We had a funeral with 10 people in blowing snow on Saturday morning. I've never experienced anything quite like it! She was very ready to go home, almost 98 years old. Heather had been meeting with her every day for the past two weeks. Pretty exhausting for everybody.
Thank you for the gift forwarded to the office for our encouragement. May the Lord bless you,
Gord Martin
Vision Ministries Canada
145 Lincoln Road, Waterloo, ON
519-501-5933 cell
Excellent Sermon God, I'm Hurting | The Place and Power of Lament
by Ken Taylor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOqJECqSuGw