Dorothy Kenton, an Alliance missionary who had plans to serve God overseas, was redirected in 1942.
After much prayer she believed that God wanted her to go to Quebec. “When I could say a wholehearted ‘yes’ too Him and give my willing consent to serve Him in Quebec for as long as He chose to use me there,” she recalled, “a great peace flooded my soul and immediately the Lord gave token after token that this thing was of Him.”
Later she wrote:
Quebec is not ordinarily thought of as a mission field. Going up there does not carry with it the glory and glamour of one who is crossing the ocean. Nevertheless, the field is a most needy one and certainly a hard one; a field that needs the earnest prayers and supplications of the Lord’s intercessors…
Apparently, in 1948 Quebec was considered:
“the world’s second largest (after India) unevangelized missions field, still open to the Gospel”
- Lindsay Reynolds “Rebirth: The Redevelopment of the Christian and Missionary Alliance in Canada 1919-1983
I wonder how much has changed in 60 years?
Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me a sinner.
Friday, August 29, 2008
Saturday, August 16, 2008
Stop Pretending; Start Loving.
I am not a woman of great knowledge or wisdom. I don’t have a degree.
And yet… the truth was spelled out for me in a dream like at street sign caught in the headlights at night: “Canada is in Danger”
What do you mean Canada is in danger? I don’t feel threatened?
"We don't realize how vulnerable we are in one another's company," said Fr. Riccioli. "We depend and trust that people next to us are coming out of their best place. Sometimes that continuum doesn't work out. Some of it is random. But as a society we make choices; we pretend that people are on their own and that has consequences. When we decide that we would rather have a tax cut than a place to house people who are mentally ill that has consequences, too."
-Charles Lewis, National Post “Tragedy tests one’s faith”; in reference to the Greyhound atrocity
<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=696337&p=2>
Pretending that we are on our own isn’t so bad for the able bodied… a bit lonely perhaps.
But, independence is freedom… right?
Wrong.
We all fall down.
Whether it is due to illness, accident, or old age; we all fall down.
So…
Let’s STOP pretending that we’re all alone.
Two is better than one… if one falls down, his friend can help him up.
Woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
And yet… the truth was spelled out for me in a dream like at street sign caught in the headlights at night: “Canada is in Danger”
What do you mean Canada is in danger? I don’t feel threatened?
"We don't realize how vulnerable we are in one another's company," said Fr. Riccioli. "We depend and trust that people next to us are coming out of their best place. Sometimes that continuum doesn't work out. Some of it is random. But as a society we make choices; we pretend that people are on their own and that has consequences. When we decide that we would rather have a tax cut than a place to house people who are mentally ill that has consequences, too."
-Charles Lewis, National Post “Tragedy tests one’s faith”; in reference to the Greyhound atrocity
<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=696337&p=2>
Pretending that we are on our own isn’t so bad for the able bodied… a bit lonely perhaps.
But, independence is freedom… right?
Wrong.
We all fall down.
Whether it is due to illness, accident, or old age; we all fall down.
So…
Let’s STOP pretending that we’re all alone.
Two is better than one… if one falls down, his friend can help him up.
Woe to the one who falls when there is not another to lift him up.
- Ecc. 4:9a, 10
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