MDP

Howdy friends,

It is Missions Month at Windsor Baptist, and Elizabeth and I had the priviledge of taking part in the service today. Elizabeth shared with the children before they headed off to Sunday School. She shared with them about the great commission and, using candles, illustrated to them how they can share the love of Jesus with their friends. I was asked to read from Jonah chapter 3, and we learned about how marvelous it can be if we simply seek to follow the Lord's will. As part of the message today Pastor Jeff shared about some people in the past from Windsor Baptist, who have been influential in missions. I was very interested to learn about the Rev. Silas Tertius Rand, pastor of Windsor Baptist Church in the mid 1800's. He was instrumental in translation and language study with the Mi'Kmaq people. He worked etensively in this area and has some papers written on the subject, many of which are available at the Acadia archives. I am looking forward to a trip with Jeff to the archives to look up some of these materials.

A lot of you have been wondering about MDP (Missionary Development Program), just what it is and how it impacts us, just when it is and where. I'll preface this by saying that, it has been
postponed for this year. It was scheduled to run between April 26 and June 30 of this year in Timber Bay Saskatchewan.

MDP is operated by IMCO (Inter Mission Cooperative Outreach), and exists "to provide training toward the equipping of believers in Christ in trans-cultural, interpersonal and leadership skills for maximum effectiveness through lives dedicated to fulfilling the Great Commission". Training at MDP is intended to equip missionaries for cross cultural communication. We found out very recently that due to circumstances beyond our control, IMCO has felt it necessary to postpone the 2009 schedule until 2010 - at which point we will be taking part in the training.

FYI - This coming weekend Elizabeth and I will be speaking at the Kingston Baptist Church, on the Kingston Peninsula in New Brunswick. The service is at 11 am, if you are in the area and would be interested in coming out - you can find directions etc. on the church website: www.kingstonbaptist.com we'd love to see you!