Just before we went to Connecticut to help Candace and Richie move about half an hour closer to Canada, the water heater in our house stopped working. Bethany bravely took cold showers before joining us on Friday. The “end” of the water heater happened in a favourable season, because cold showers were more bearable than they would have been during the winter and it was much easier to bring in a new water heater, with no snow or ice on the steps.
Although it is warmer than we would like this week, heat waves usually don’t last long in Quebec. We are looking forward to a group of young people coming from Pennsylvania this weekend to help in the Vacation Bible School (VBS) that is being held at Grace Church in Verdun next week. Summer camp and VBS hold a special place in my life. During my elementary school years, I went to a day camp, where I received the nickname “Shadow” while playing soccer and went to Camp Woodland (on the Quebec side of the Ottawa river) for five summers. I attended a VBS at Val Royal Baptist Church, two streets from where I grew up. About ten years after making a world map at the VBS, I asked God’s forgiveness for my sins while following a Bible correspondence course in Montreal. Four years later, I was on a bus headed for New York City, to board a plane to Belgium, beginning a chapter of my life with a Christian movement that prepared me for missionary service.
Scripture for the weekend: “then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptations and to reserve the unjust under punishment for the day of judgment.” 2 Peter 2:9 (NKJV)
By His grace,
Steve