How Good & Pleasant It Is

Our understanding and experience of how good and pleasant it is when the Church dwells together in unity was expanded yesterday.  Many of Mission's local Churches sent representatives to join the Parkside family for our Sunday gathering.  At the end of our service a number of local Pastors raced over (some reordered their service to be there) to pray for Angela.  [If anyone took a picture of this gathering, please send it to me at clint@parksideonprentis.ca.]

I can't even fully express what this meant to us personally.  Angela and I were both deeply touched and our hearts were (and are) overflowing with appreciation, inspiration, and faith as a result.

It was a great experience for our Parkside family too.  Our Church family was buzzing after and even today on facebook with a sense of gratitude, awe, and excitement at the power of Jesus to unite and love one another.

I also believe that this was a great step forward for all of the local Church bodies in Mission.  To my knowledge, the Mission Ministerial has never planned something like this before.  I believe this action will serve to move us (the Church of Mission) towards greater unity and partnership in extending the life and love Jesus in our City.

Thank you to all the Churches, representatives, and pastors for their support, sacrifice, and prayers.  May God bless you richly for this gift of love and faith.

Next Sunday is our annual "Vision Sunday" at Parkside and yesterday served, in a way that I didn't anticipate, as a perfect preface to this coming Sunday.

To update you on Angela, she goes in this afternoon for her second round of chemo.  Please pray, in addition to complete healing, that the side effects of chemo would be minimal-to-none.  Ang's mom is with us the first few days to help us care for Angela and our kids.

Following, Sunday's gathering we headed over to Hotel Hersey to get family portraits taken with all of Angela's family.  The fabulous Katy~* of picturemefoto.com captured our smiling faces.

This week the College is back in full swing, most things are back-up and running with our Church, and tonight is the BCS Championship... roll tide!