Minus Twenty Eight Degrees Celcius

"So glad you came in a warm snap..." a friend mused without a hint of irony.

As I gazed out of Winnipeg Airport's front door, my eyes absorb what can only be described as a tundra of frosty proportions.

I check the temperature. Yes. Yes it is -5C.
I mull over the thought for a while whilst exchanging conversation. What did she mean by "warm snap". I check my internal British Sarcasm detection unit.
No sarcasm detected.

Hmmmmm.

I just got back from a trip to the city of Winnipeg. Winnipeg is Canada's largest "prairie" city, located in the middle of the vast praires which make up most of Canada's farmland.
I had been invited to teach on a Discipleship Training School along with another colleague on the subject of "Intimacy With God & Worship". I also took the opportunity to promote missions at a local bible college, and at a large missions-focused conference being held at the same time.

I have to say, my two weeks away were a exceptional period of refreshment for me. I was able to spend alot of time with the Discipleship School's students, attend my first Ice Hockey game and... enjoyed immensely my teaching week.

For those of you who might not know, Youth With A Mission Urban Ministries Winnipeg was planted out of my base ministry in Vancouver four years ago.
It's been a real squirt of lemon-juice-to-the ocular-cavity to see how God has used my friends Kim and Jamie in the urban sub-zero climate that Winnipeg is situated in.

The morning of my last day there, I arose to a frosty daybreak: -28C.

A surprising expansion to my personal definition of "warm snap" has manifested itself.

I wonder what other horizons will be expanded in the near future.

Soapbox confusion

Testing, testing, 1-2, 1-2.

This is my first blog... my first update. Would like to keep you all in the loop. Perhaps an opportunity to jump onto a digital soapbox.

Why do we choose to get onto soapboxes when we want to make a statement? Surely a larger, more stable type of box would be a preferable choice. Perhaps an elephant box? Does anyone have any answers?

Ho hum.

Watch this space.