Update Tuesday

Well after seven weeks, we finally said goodbye to our team of summer interns yesterday.  I am hoping that  it was a challenging, stretching, eyeopening and equipping experience for each of them.  I pray that there were things that they learned and principles that they will take with them wherever they go, feeling both challenged and equipped to be on mission.  

So what is next for us here in Hamilton?  Well one of the things we had asked of our interns was to help us find people of peace, in particular students, in the city.  They were able to introduce a number of students to our family of faith.  Prayerfully we will be able to walk with these students to see a new Fellowship begin.  

Similarly, after having a team of interns serving, and a number of mission teams we will need to use the rest of the summer to transition from teams to our own people.  This is actually one of my weaknesses to be frank.  When I have mission teams I find it easy to come up with ideas and initiatives and be intentional about seeing them happen.  What we need to be doing now is taking some similar ideas and initiatives and seeing them being accomplished, in a very intentional way, by our own people here in the city.  In this way the teams over the summer will have been a very important stimulus and push forward that  led to a prolonged engagement in our community.  

I would also ask that you might be in prayer for the Send North America conference going on as I write.  Very soon our Toronto gang will be hosting a Send Toronto break out session sharing about what God is doing in the region and helping others to get involved.  Pray that God would move for the sake of His work here in the area and for the sake of His Kingdom.