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Dalton’s Sri Lanka

I met thirteen year-old Dalton Taylor and the rest of the Encounter Sri Lanka 2014 team – Dan Sheffield, Barry Taylor, Tracey Purdy Taylor, Amy Gendall, Rick Fox and Jaylynne Fox – on July 25th, the evening before they flew to Sri Lanka for a two week mission trip.     My chat

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What Is a Healthy Church?

Anyone else a day behind with this short week?  Yup, that’s right Church Health Thursday is on Friday this week! Oops! This week’s blog “What is a Healthy Church” is from Ron Edmondson and it explores just what the title suggests. Happy Thursday and Friday folks! Click here to read,

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The Sunshine Class

The Sunshine Class was started in1976 by Ethel Losier.  Ethel and her family attended Thunder Bay Free Methodist Church but she felt that the Sunday school classes offered at the time were beyond her mentally disabled daughter’s understanding – so with God’s prompting Ethel began the Sunshine Class.  Initially there

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The Music Man

Pastor Doug Dawson from Open Arms in Tillsonburg, ON shared this story about Leonel who was a regular at Brazos Abiertos, an outreach ministry for Spanish speaking migrant workers. We may never see Leonel again and that is good news.  This statement doesn’t make a lot of sense without Leonel’s back

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