On the Road again...

Well its that time again...
we're headed back stateside!
The last three weeks have been busy. We got back to Toronto on Monday, October 29th, the day after our "Welcome to the Neighbourhood Party" that was held by our Virginia Beach neighbours. It was great to meet more of the people on Pinewood Road.

Highlights from the last few weeks?
There's a bunch :)
We worked tuesday-friday at Blythwood filling in for the usual church secretary who was spending some time with her daughter in Australia. I (Melissa) did most of the hours, but Mac filled in for me when i had to take care of other stuff for the fundraising campaign.

We spent a weekend in Montreal! On Saturday, November 10th my good friend Alexandra got married to a guy who is absolutely perfect for her. his name is Mark. It was so much fun to share in their day and a few friends from back in Langley. We also saw Mac's friends from Regent: Drew, Sarah and their cute daughter Jordan. We went to their church on Sunday morning. Then Mac was able to get together with him for breakfast on Tuesday when they were in Toronto visiting family.

This week also marked the end of another phase in the development of "The Glocalization Project" -- the fundraising campaign that i've been working on since september. 2 weeks ago we got our logo, and this week i finished up the main part of the campaign book. It was sent out to three churches for review. I also made up a "Glocalization in one page" that will be used as of next weekend to start promoting the fundraising campaign which starts in February next year. So i am pretty much done with that until December 10th, when i get ot hear the good, bad and uglies of the campaign from those who have reviewed it and then take their feedback into consideration as we prepare the final version of the campaign.

I have also been asked to consider leading a team that will plant a church in London Ontario. But there is a small issue with timing. We need to be down in Virginia for the next little while (once our visa comes through, whenever that is), but they would want to start planting this church in the next 6 months, which won't work for us. So we're praying and trying to figure out what's going on there.

Tomorrow we head down to Virginia for US Thanksgiving and some Christmas shopping. with any luck we'll have it all done (or at least mostly) by the time we come back. We head back to Toronto next monday (the 26th) or so and then fly to BC on November 28th to visit friends out there and help our friends Jen and Tim with their move back. Mac will be driving east with Tim.... for details on that click here. Jen and I will be flying back to Toronto on December 8th.

So we hope you are all doing well
till next time!