We're Trashy!: Canada church plant update

With four kids and feeding half of Fort McMurray, we accumulate allot of trash.

Normally this is a stinky problem, on Monday it proved to be an effective ministry tool when I was dumping our trash at the city landfill.I had a divine appointment with a heavy hauler driver/guitar player named Mike at the dump.

I met Mike around Christmas when I was at the local mall wrapping gifts for a fundraiser at my daughters' school. Mike hated wrapping gifts and let me wrap all 32 gifts that he had bought. I am slow at wrapping gifts, and really not that good at it. So around gift number 14 Mike started asking me questions about why I came to Fort McMurray. He was blown over by the fact that I was the only person that he had met that did not come to the Fort to try to make more money. We really connected and laughed a great deal from gift number 14 to 32.

Since then Mike and I have been working on building a relationship. I have seen Mike play guitar and sing with his band and had a few other conversations with him, but something spiritual happened the other day at the dump.

Mike just had a baby with his girlfriend nine days ago, and now realizes that he needs to change some things in his life. He asked if I would give him some advice on how to be a family man. I said that I would be glad to help him become the man that God wants him to be. It was then that we went over to his truck and prayed for his girlfriend and new baby girl at the dump.

Please pray that Mike will continue to seek out God's plan for his life and that I will get a chance to see Mike and his girlfriend, Colleen come to faith in Christ.