Christmas is coming...

It was a beautiful chilly day today at Arrowhead. We have lots of snow to cover the ground and make the tree boughs hang. This afternoon we met the Strouts in the main lodge and decorated our lovely 9 foot Christmas tree together. It was a nice day for a little festive music and decorating. Our house is starting to get into the season too.

Yesterday, I took the N.B.B.I. guys up to the highway to meet their ride back to the school. We enjoyed having them with us for a few days. There were many board games played and lots of good discussion. I'm sure they're keeping the school on it's toes.

Liz and I will be meeting our field directors at the airport tomorrow night at 11:30, they will be with us at Arrowhead until next week. On Friday we will welcome all of the Eastern field missionaries at Arrowhead. We will be having some meetings and a bit of a Christmas get together. Please keep the missionaries in prayer as they travel.

some lovely vacation...

You haven't heard from us in a little over a week. Well, we have a good excuse. Some very kind friends of ours in the States offered us the use of their condo in New Hampshire for a week. It has been a great long time since Liz and I have had any time to ourselves for vacation, so this was a very welcome rest after a busy couple of years. It was a great week and we very much enjoyed the time to relax.

Today Carroll and Cathy Hill stopped in on their way to the Miramichi and we shared in prayer with them for the ministries here in the East. It was nice to catch up with them.

This week we're settling back into routine. And as we do, we'll be having several N.B.B.I. students staying with us for their Thanksgiving break. It will be fun to spend a few days with some of our staff from last summer... it's either gonna make us feel like teenagers... or old folks.

Next week we're looking forward to having our field directors with us for several days. It's always an encouragement to have Len & Lorrayne with us, and we'll be having our Eastern Field Christmas gathering as well, so it promises to be a great week!

an opportunity to serve...

In this weeks vLog entry I wanted to share another project we hope to accomplish in 2011. If you have a team that would like to help out with the project in the video, please feel free to contact us for details!

ANBC Summer Video: 2010

We had a fantastic Summer. Why not join us next year?!

Jacksontown

On Tuesday Liz and I struck out for Woodstock to meet with a Women's Mission Society from Jacksontown Baptist Church. They have shown a great interest in the Ministry of Arrowhead and had asked us to come and share a little bit with the group about Arrowhead and what is happening here. We enjoyed very much a lovely meal with our hostess and fellowship with the ladies. There were eight ladies at the meeting and let me just say, what a mighty group of mission minded women. The things they accomplish for the Lord in their community and around the world is fantastic and was humbling to share in. Liz and I were both very encouraged and blessed, not only by their enthusiasm, but their hearts for mission and love of the Lord were such an encouragement.

We enjoyed the opportunity to talk about ANBC at length and share with them. The meeting, including fellowship was 3 hours long and we were on our way home at about 10:30pm. We had taken with us the camp truck, which unfortunately was having a hard night and it decided to share that with Liz and I. We had just about reached Fredericton and the truck overheated. I had fortunately stashed a jug of rad fluid behind the seat so we sat and waited for the truck to cool so I could add the rad fluid. As we waited a good Samaritan from Quebec stopped. He had driven past and was quite a distance up the highway, but stopped and backed up all the way to where we were to see if we needed assistance. He helped me add the rad fluid and followed us to the Irving Big Stop near Oromocto. I put in a couple of jugs of water and we got home fine. The truck is now at the shop and in need of a new radiator.

To spite our little truck adventure, Liz and I had a wonderful evening.

friends & fellowship

It was a wonderful weekend. I had the opportunity to travel to Nova Scotia to share Arrowhead updates with folks in Windsor and Halifax. Unfortunately Liz was feeling quite under the weather and wasn't able to accompany me. She very much missed reconnecting with friends.

I traveled on Saturday morning to Windsor, and enjoyed an afternoon with friends there. Windsor Baptist church planned a pot luck and allowed me a generous opportunity to share and have some question and answers about Arrowhead and the ministry this past year. It was a truly wonderful opportunity to be with friends and fellow believers there. Sunday morning I was given then opportunity to share the children's story and take part in Scripture reading. I was really very blessed to be able to worship at our home church in Windsor.

Sunday afternoon I spent visiting with friends and then made my way in to Halifax for the evening service at Sheffield Baptist Church. While I was there, I was presented with Canadian Tire money and pennies for Arrowhead. Once again it was a real blessing to me to be able to worship and fellowship with friends. I found the weekend to be a wonderful encouragement and time of refreshing for me.

This afternoon we're heading to Woodstock to share about the ministry at Arrowhead with a WMS group at Jacksontown Baptist Church.

odd jobs...

We've been having some inquiries about possible projects for work teams this coming Spring. I thought perhaps the best way to share some of our needs in this area would be to post them in vLog updates. This vLog update is about a large project we have in the upper main lodge.

Crack filling, sanding, painting, trim work and flooring.

The stairwell.

Trim for the windows and doors.