worship, witchcraft and worldview

On Sunday morning we worshipped with the Native Fellowship church in Hobema. Attending, was a lady who had been struggling with witchcraft and wicca. She come through it by the strength of the Lord. She shared her testimony with us and publicly renounced the practice of these things. The missionary pastor prayed and shared this passage from Acts with us:

"And many of those who practiced magic brought their books together and began burning them in the sight of everyone; and they counted up the price of them and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver." ~Acts 19:19

As a public symbol, we went out of the church and witnessed as she and the pastor burned the books of witchcraft that she had in her home. It was a very special opportunity to see the Lord working in her life as we were able to celebrate with her, a new life in Christ!

Yesterday was our first day of seminars with Dr. Tom Steffen, author of "Passing the Baton". He is working with us through a series of seminars dealing with the five stage church planting strategy. It has been quite interesting so far, and I've found that the discussions have clearly tied together all of the Worldview training seminars that we've been a part of to this point. And as always it's a pleasure to hear from Mike Matthews and share with everyone here in fellowship.

Kevin and I are staying in the men's dorm at the Bible School and today we acquired a new roommate. Jonathan Yeo drove in from Fort Liard, NWT, to take part in the seminars, so we've been having a great time catching up with him.

Watch for a video blog at some point this week. I've been asked to take a few shots of happenings at these sessions for the NCEM Facebook page, so I'll post them here as well in the form of a vlog for anyone who is interested in seeing where we are and what we're up to.