Reflections on the Weekend

Just a few miscellaneous events to blog about after a nice weekend...
1) Prairie Bible College Junior/Senior Banquet was exceptional!!! It reminds me why I love working with college age students. They had a lot of fun with the theme of "Neverland" - yes I was prepared for many lame jokes about "not wanting to grow up" - but alas, the junior class outdid themselves in presenting a good and deep biblical message on childlike faith amidst academic learning. Mr Douglas Lewis did an outstanding job (as usual) with his closing remarks tying it all together.

One last comment re: leadership. Some AWESOME female leaders in both the Junior & Senior class and both Valerie and Beth gave superb speeches (no surprise!!!) and will be great preachers, should any wise church not mute them just because they are women!

2) Prairie Christian Academy Sabres win Provincials - congrats to coach Bob Murray and the PCA Sabres Men's basketball team for capturing the 2A Boys Provincial Title this weekend up in Edmonton. They went all season as the #1-ranked team in the province and won the championship!!! That's so awesome!!! Their banner will now join the 1999 Provincial Title banners - another great basketball team (and volleyball provincials that year too!).

One comment on this event: You know you are marrying into an awesome family when dad (Marlowe) goes up to watch the quarter-final and semi-final games on Friday, and then goes up with mom to the championship game Sat night (and they had stuff to do on Sunday at church!). And they say *I* am a crazy sports fan!

3) The Ambassador Choir & Jubilation ensemble presented their program at the Prairie Tabernacle yesterday morning and proved the truth of "teaching and admonishing one another with psalms, hymns, & spiritual songs" (Col 3:16). You don't always need a "sermon" of preaching to hear the message of Scripture clearly - even the pastor told me that after the Ambassador's presentation. Then in our small group last night, where we normally discuss the message/sermon, we discussed the "message" of Bandeti - A Place of Refuge. And then we prayed for the many people and situations we knew of that needed God's refuge.

So, as you can see, a weekend with much to be grateful to God for!