Dear Folks,
As you know from previous newsletters, the Banff Pastors and Spouses Conference included input from 4 speakers. Darrell Johnson led us in a study of John 17 each morning. This was followed by communion: lead the first morning by Dennis Stone, Devin Seghers, and Rob Ogilvie, the subsequent morning by Caryn and Brian Stelck and the final morning by Darrell.
Myrna Sears lead us in a session on “Learning as a Lifelong Journey” with illustrations and contributing segments from Brian Stelck and Axel Schoeber.
Bruce Clemenger spoke to us in a breath-taking and sometimes breathless way about the state of the church in Canada. He has a warm and good heart, and has an incredible grasp of the faith world in which we live. Bruce’s data will be available in the middle of December via Shelby Gregg.
Nadia VanderKuip spoke on ‘Building Community by Serving One Another’ especially through short-term ministries.
Sam Chaise led us in worship along with Brandon Swab, Jason Johnson, Rob Priestley, Carrie Erickson, Del Riemer, Wayne Morgan, Laurie Priestley, Faye Webber, Stan Haugan, Esther Kitchener, and Tora Klassen. Faye Reynolds began our time on Monday evening by leading us in a biblical reflection or lectio.
Thank you to Liz Swab who with Colleen Schneider’s assistance organized the conference. Thank you for the assistance of Sharon Onciul, Dawn Johannesson and Gayle Meyer (we’d like to thank Gayle’s husband as well) and Shelby Gregg for helping with the resource library. Tim Kerber was and continues to be a most remarkable conference leader.
We trust that much of the reflections from the speakers will be available in December. We will publish a list of workshops and contact people for those workshops along with finishing off some of our thank- yous in the next couple of weeks.
Warmly,
In Christ,
Jeremy