Update Tues - M.I.A

Let me first apologize that the blog had been M.I.A over the last few weeks, by which I mean that I have been neglecting it.  Thanks to all of you who faithfully check for updates and pray for all that is going on here in Hamilton. 
Personally, it has been a challenging few months and the last few weeks in particular have been tough.  Our oldest son continues to be in hospital which is hard enough in and of itself.  Making it worse, however, is that because he is seventeen, they have decided to go to him for all medical decisions and have opted to leave his family out, leaving us on the periphery with no means of seeing in.  We have seen some promising things happen this week and are prayerful that at least a small step forward may come soon.  Many days are consumed with trying to fight this fight while other days the emotional toll creeps up and makes trying to do anything hard.  Outside of dealing with this issue, caring for the family and leading our Fellowship, I have let some things like this blog slip.  But we are back today!  We would appreciate prayers as we continue to try to move forward and seek the best for our son.
Although things have been tough, we continue to see God doing some neat things.  The last I wrote I was participating in a church planting Emphasis week a Liberty University.  From that we have has some interest from students who would like to come and do a short term internship in a church planting context.  We are working on the details to see this happen.  I also had the opportunity to speak with the director of the program who was keen to see that Liberty be involved in supporting church planting in Canada.  We look forward to where this may lead.
We also continue to plan and look to the future.  God is bringing a bit more focus to the vision that He has for us here in the Hamilton area and I hope to be able to share a bit more in the days and weeks ahead.
Thanks again for the continued prayer.