Kingston Baptist Church

Elizabeth and I have just returned from a wonderful weekend with family, friends and fellow believers in the St. John, New Brunswick area. We left on Saturday morning from home in Windsor, enjoyed lunch with Elizabeth's parents in Annapolis Co., and caught the Ferry to St. John in Digby at 4:30pm. It was a stormy day, the roads were snow covered and the wind howled - making the open water a giant, rolling, sloshy froth. Needless to say it was a rough 3 hour Valentine's Day cruise. I washed down a couple of Gravol with a nice heaping plate of Poutine and slept the pitching and rolling hours away. Elizabeth was more or less unperturbed by the motion of the boat. My sister and her husband were kind enough to put us up for Saturday and Sunday evening, we had a great time visiting with them over a tumultuous game of Monopoly.

Sunday morning we were so blessed to be able to be among the believers at the Kingston United Baptist Church. We were warmly welcomed and enjoyed worshiping and fellowshipping with them. We were given the opportunity to share our excitement with them about what lies in store for us at Arrowhead and beyond. It was a blessing to visit with and be encourged by the people there.

Sunday afternoon we had the opportunity to spend time with some of Elizabeth's family as well. Elizabeth's uncle is very involved in camp ministry and is a great encouragement and source of wisdom and experience. And no visit to the Corkum home would be complete without watching some of the old Super8 footage of days gone by.

We returned to Nova Scotia on the ferry this morning and back home this evening after lunch with Elizabeth's brother and sister-in-law. While we were on the ferry home we received a call from our realtor - he was hoping to have a viewing immediately on our house. We were not expecting a viewing today, but as we were away and the dog was at Lizs' parents, we told him to go ahead. This was our first viewing and we're prayerful that something exciting will come of it. Once our home is sold we will be moving to Cumberland Bay and getting into the thick of things.

This evening I had a nice visit with our Pastor. It was great to catch up with pastor Jeff, I was quite excited by what he brought for me to read. As I may have mentioned in the past, our church has a history of involvement with ministry to First nations people. One of the pastors of the congregation, a man by the name of Silas tertius Rand, was instrumental in language study and developing a written language for the Mi'kmaq people. He is well known for having translated the bible. I now have a biography of this mid-nineteenth century missionary to enjoy. I am quite looking forward to reading about just how he impacted ministry to the Mi'kmaq.