the stricken bank teller.

On Tuesday Kevin and I had the opportunity to have some meetings in Fredericton. We met Venus Coté for lunch, she accompanied us for the afternoon as we did some camp errands. After lunch, our first order of business was to relieve ourselves of over 70,000 pennies and $300 in other coins. The grand total of the 'Plethora of Pennies' was $1,012.77, we have also received a great deal more in other donations for training. A big thank you is in order for all those of you who have contributed to our training expenses in this way!

Each of the grocery pails had almost 200 lbs worth of pennies... it was an interesting waddle to the bank... the tellers looked... stricken.

We met with Sue Bear at St. Mary's and chatted with her a bit about this summers upcoming camps. It was encouraging to see her excitement in the programs, we are pleased to be able to do a bit of planning ahead with respect to camper registrations etc.

Tuesday evening Kevin and I enjoyed fellowship with some of the believers at the St. Mary's Bible Study.

On Wednesday Kevin and I headed to Shediac. My mother has donated some furniture to Arrowhead for the new office and directors quarters so we took the truck to bring the items back to camp. It was a whirlwind trip in the rain, but we had no problems and nothing got wet. It is a big help to have some new shelves, a bed and chair, dresser and tables.

Thursday brought my friend Ben Lawson for a visit. Ben works as a teacher in Akulevik, Quebec and is home for a weeks break. He worked with us as a cabin leader last year during camp and his ministry has been much appreciated. We're hopeful he'll be able to minister with us again this year! It was great to be able to spend a couple of days catching up with him!

Liz has gone to NS for a couple of days to visit with her folks before we head out West for training. It will be her last real opportunity to see them until after Eastern Field conference in the Fall.

ANBC goes Nova Scotia

On Saturday morning Kevin & I (Grant) headed out for Brier Island, Nova Scotia. We arrived in time to catch the 3:30 ferry to Long Island and then on to the 4:00 ferry to Brier Island. It was a beautiful day for traveling and we were pleased to meet our friends Crystal and Andrew Welch in Digby, so we enjoyed sailing with them to the islands. We were greeted at the Westport Baptist Church on the Island by a large crowd and a wonderful pot luck dinner. Lori Bennett, another NCEM missionary here in the East was there as well, she would be giving a ministry update on Sunday morning. Phil and Gracie Welch have their home in Westport, so it was a great NCEM gathering at the Westport Baptist Church. We shared an update about all of the exciting things happening at Arrowhead and were blessed by a generous contribution to "A Plethora of Pennies" by the folks at the church.

NCEM missionaries take Westport Baptist Church by storm. (L to R); Grant Fawcett, Lori Bennett, Gracie Welch, Phil Welch and Kevin Strout

The good folks at Westport Baptist Church donated 12,500 pennies to contribute to our training expenses! Thank You Westport Baptist!

Kevin and I left Westport Saturday evening and travelled as far as Granville Beach. We enjoyed a stay with Lizs' folks, although brief, we were back on the road early Sunday morning. But before we left we were given a big bucket-o-pennies on behalf of Habitation Baptist Church.

Habitation Baptist Church collected over 8,000 'pennies' to contribute to our training costs. Another big thank you to Habitation Baptist Church!

Sunday morning Kevin and I were in Coldbrook, Nova Scotia at Coldbrook Baptist Church. We enjoyed the opportunity to give an Arrowhead update as a part of their Sunday morning service.

The folks at Coldbrook have requested to be a part of our Grocery Grabber Coupon program for another year! It is such a huge encouragement and very practical help for us to have churches share with us in ministry in this way!

After church we continued 0ur trek as far as Halifax. Kevin and I were given the opportunity to give an Arrowhead update at Sheffield Baptist Church in Halifax. It was Gospel Night, and we both very much enjoyed all of the ministry in music. We thought that as a part of the music night we'd teach everyone a camp song. So with the help of a couple of camp savvy 'volunteers' we led the congregation in a few verses of "I just wanna be a Sheep"... not really sure if it was as amazing as we thought it was, but everyone had fun!

We have been so encouraged by the excitement of our friends at Sheffield in the ministry at Arrowhead with NCEM. We were presented with over $60 in Canadian Tire money and a generous financial gift to aid in our Spring projects at ANBC.

On Monday morning we met with the Band Leadership in Millbrook, Nova Scotia. We wanted to introduce ourselves and present them with the upcoming programs at Arrowhead. It was a great meeting, we're looking forward to having a great group come from Millbrook to ANBC this year!

This is a statue of Glooscap at Millbrook in NS. It is a 40 ft tall statue that greets you as you travel through Millbrook on the highway!

After our meeting we headed home, stopping for a whirlwind visit with my mom in Shediac. I wish we'd had time to stay longer, but while we were there Kevin got a call that the work team had arrived from Maine. So we zipped off again and arrived at Arrowhead to greet the work team about 90 minutes later.

Edie Fawcett (mama) presented us with pennies and Canadian Tire money collected by the Shediac Baptist Church WMS. They have been very busy!

back at Arrowhead, Liz showed the fellas into the main lodge and got them settled in with a snack. By the time we finally arrived the guys had a chance to look around and inspect some of the jobs they will be doing while they are here!

A shot from last night, Roger Hill has loaned us some tools for hooking up the new well and was helping with some planning for the big job! It's going to be a busy week!