Today was my first day back in the office after my week of vacation.
It was good to reconnect with the staff and get caught up on the latest HMC news.
Here’s a newsworthy item:
Tomorrow is the application deadline for a part-time bookkeeper (10hrs/week).
So Mr. or Ms. bookkeeper. If you’re out there, stop procrastinating. Now’s the time to apply.
Today marks the first day of a weekend training event aimed at young leaders in my denominational tribe, the Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada. 30 leaders, mostly between 20-30 years old, have been invited from across Canada. I was invited. I’m glad they didn’t check ID’s at the door. I packed up my stuff, kissed…
It’s been awhile. I’ve been neglectful lately. I’m sorry. I spent last week speaking in evening chapels at Mishewah family camp. It’s one of our denominational camps near Pembroke, Ontario. My family was there with a handful of others from HMC, a whole lot of people from other parts of the province, and countless blood-thristy…
Amazingly, the Mills clan now have a family physician in our area. We started looking for a Doc shortly after arriving in the area in 2007. We weren’t overly aggressive about searching until last winter. Our 8-year-old is prone to strep infections. After multiple emergency room visits, Erika started praying. During one snowy visit, a…
I’m at my best when dreaming. Not a pie-in-the-sky kind of fantasizing but a “let’s pretend we relaxed the rules a bit” sort of dreaming. Of course, dreams are always best when they are grounded in a firm sense of what has happened in the past and what is currently happening in the present. When…
It’s 2010. And just so you know, it’s now pronounced twenty-ten, not two thousand and ten. Thanks for clarifying Luke. I don’t usually make New Year’s resolutions but I do set life goals. It started around ten years ago when Erika and I went through premarital counseling. The pastor invited us to dream about the…
Lately, I’ve been thinking about farming. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not planning to forsake my ordination vows. Nor am I considering the bi-vocational option of preaching by day and raising chickens by night. Instead, I’ve been considering the origins of the pastoral office. Tonight I read this quote from God found in Ezekiel 34,…