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Every time we give someone a label we make them a stranger.
One of the highlights of my time in Canada was being at Edmonton airport as a little family of four finished their journey from a war zone to the comparative tranquility of Alberta. Sako, Nairy, Nver and Anna-Maria left Lebanon earlier that day, where they had fled after seeing their city of Aleppo destroyed. A group of about 30 of us welcomed them at the airport, which they seemed to be pleased with. Pastor Hany (centre of the photo with the white shirt) assured me that Syrian culture enjoys crowds. For Leeanne and it was a strange experience. So many memories came flooding back. Four years ago it was our family coming…
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I love the heart, vision, challenge and pathway that I am seeing.
There was a two week period where I attended two conferences that were quite different but at the same time similar, and influenced by a very challenging author and what I was preaching about at the time. The first conference was the National Assembly of the Christian and Missionary Alliance. That was followed by the Deepening Community conference hosted by the Tamarack Institute for Community Engagement. While I was doing all this I had also been continuing to preach through Ephesians chapter four and was processing two books by Danny Silk (Culture of Honor and Keep Your Love on) which have been challenging and inspiring. These diverse experiences and inputs somehow wove…