Canada Update #2

Despite the rainy weather, we decided to ride the short drive to St. Julienne.  This is the small town close by where Ron's church is currently to help plant a church.  The hope is to begin a Bible study initially.  A gentleman from the church named Serge will lead this effort.  St. Julienne is his home and he knows many people there.  Below is a picture of the building that he hopes to meet in, at least at first.  He has volunteered there for a while now, driving folks to dr. appointments.  He is optimistic that because of this service, they will allow him to use the building for this ministry rent-free!  Will you please pray for that to happen?

The town of St. Julienne is hard-core Catholic, and almost zero English-speaking.  It will be a VERY difficult place to evangelize and plant a church.  Below a picture of the Catholic church there.

As you can tell, seeing this beautiful church was a real treat for us!  But it also offered us a sad reality of the pervasive lostness of this area.  The caretaker that let us tour the building was such a sweet guy, but his words painted a sober reality of the state of mind of most people here.  He shared with us the reason for being so open to us coming in and looking around had to do with his longing to see young people return 'to the church.'  He said that this beautiful building should be shared, and that if the doors were open, perhaps they would return.  He then said that "everyone just needs to believe in something, whatever it is, as long as it was something."  Ron had the opportunity to share a very frustrating conversation with him, trying to speak truth into his life.  Please pray for Clarence.  Pray that God would open his eyes to truth, and that he would come to understand that Jesus is the only way for all people to the Father.

We had a great time of debriefing tonight after dinner.  We shared about worshiping together in different languages yesterday, our first (rainy) day of camp, and our time in St. Julienne this afternoon.  We are suppose to have sunny days the rest of the week, so we are excited about that!  Thanks for continuing to pray for us!