Getting Back into Routine

It's almost been 3 weeks since I've been back to my home in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. So good to be back! Definitely an adjustment of getting up and going each morning, working 8 hours a day, arriving while it's pretty much still winter, catching up on things at work and church, "setting" up home, buying groceries and cooking for myself again and not being with my family...

I continue to thank God for His many blessings and provisions. Thank you for your continued prayers as I get back into life here.

I find myself still processing those 3 months while I was away from here. Thinking back through it all and what God showed me about Himself...and myself.

One specifc way that God answered a prayer was that I would get an extension on getting medical immigration exams done for permanent residency. Just after I left Canada, I got news that I was to do medical exams within 120 days and I didn't realize I could have done it in the states until I was about to head back. PTL that I was granted a 30 day extension to get that done and I was able to do all that just after I returned! I expect to have permanent residency by the end of the summer! This will make it so much easier for me to be here and no more renewal of work visa and all that mess! You can continue to pray for the residency process. By the time one gets to the medical exam, there's not a lot more to do.

Been great to reconnect with folks here! Great to be back with my church family!

Our CNBC staff is gearing up for New Minister's Orientation at the office next week. Once a year, we invite new pastors to come and hear all about the CNBC, network together and we get to hear God stories from across the country. I enjoy these times of meeting our wonderful leaders and helping them to know more of what we are all about as a convention. We will soon be in full prep gear for our annual meeting that is held in July. This year, it will be in Calgary at Richmond Hill Baptist Church, one of own churches! It's not too often that one of our own churches can actually host the entire meeting in their building...seeing that most of our churches don't have a building big enough to host or even have a building, for that matter. It will be a great time together.

"Be still and know that I am God" - Psalm 46:10