Posts Tagged ‘faith’

Vantage Launch Service – Sept 13th, 2009

Sunday, September 13th, 2009

To God be the glory! Today was an historic day for Vantage Church. As I sit in my family room writing this, I am overwhelmed with so many emotions. God is truly on the move in this city and it is hard to put in to words how honoured we are to be a part of it.

Our day started early… VERY early…. we bump in at 6am so needless to say it was still dark when we woke up! We arrived to our venue (a movie theatre complex of 14 cinemas) to meet up with our most amazing team. They were already busy at work and they all had smiles on their faces!! Pretty amazing at 6am BEFORE the coffee run!

There were a few hiccups… to be expected on your first Sunday I guess… but set up went pretty smooth. I watched our team get busy… some setting up the sound system, some blacking out seats and doing seat-drops, some setting up the foyers and making coffee, some setting up our kids rooms…. each role important and a valued part of our team. (more…)

The greatest of these is love….

Friday, July 3rd, 2009

I’ve been thinking a lot about love recently. I guess it started after reading an article about the state of teenagers in our nation. It was an interesting article to read as it was full of studies and surveys of Canadian teenagers. The general gist was that teenagers of this millennium are drinking less, doing less drugs and having less sex. Which in itself, should be an encouraging statistic… except that according to the same article, the number of teenagers claiming to be Christian has fallen dramatically over the past 20 years. There are multitudes of teenagers converting to other faiths, like Islam and Buddhism, but sadly not to Christianity.

So I guess the question is, why? (more…)