the Sawatzky Nomad

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Monday, January 26, 2009

Exciting News!!!

We finally have some good news!

We've been looking for a new church since September and shortly after then heard that Castle Downs Baptist Church in Edmonton, a BGC church, is looking for a lead pastor. It sounded like it might be a fit for us so we sent Tim's pastor's profile, fancy lingo for 16 page long version of a 'resume'. Since then we've had email conversations and a phone interview in November. We've been waiting to hear news if they wanted to pursue us or not and this Sunday we got the news.

They've asked us to come for a visit for the Valentine's weekend. It's a meet and greet where we'll spend some time hanging out with the board and the rest of the congregation and Tim will preach on Sunday. We've decided to take the whole family to see the area and the church. We are very excited and feel so relieve to be moving forward.

Thank you to all of you who have been praying for us. We pray now that God would prepare Castle Downs and us for this visit and that we would all have a good sense if this is the right direction for the church and for us. We are really excited about the church and the opportunities for ministry there.

In case you're wondering about our house, it's still on the market. There have been a few families interested, and we did a showing but no offers yet. Another prayer item.

3 Comments:

Blogger Jen Glen said...

Congratulations you two! I pray God makes it very clear to you if this is the place for you. The Glen one

Wednesday, 28 January, 2009  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

This is very exciting news!! Hopefully it will be obvious to both you and the church if this is where God wants you to be and your house will sell shortly after you find out and all will be right with the world. I'll be praying for you.

Wednesday, 28 January, 2009  
Blogger VanEeBoyz said...

WOW!!! That is such exciting news!! praise God!! It has been a long haul for you all. I pray that this w/e will be a open door for you. I can't wait to hear about it... I am terrible at checking blogs:o) I get on facebook once in a while though..
God bless your family!

Tuesday, 10 February, 2009  

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