What a great time to be with some amazing people in Canada over the weekend. Here’s a shout to my new friends under the banner of the maple leaf. My publisher for Red Letters, Cook Communications Canada, set up my speaking for the conference including the next one in Vancouver for Unite Productions. You should come, it will be an awesome time!

Reconnected with an old friend, Chris Seay, who is a prolific author and pastor of a church called Ecclesia in Houston and one of the founders of the emergent church movement. I haven’t it seen him in quite a few years but it was really good to re-spark an old friendship. His church is doing significant things to help the poor of the world and focusing on the needs of others instead of just what’s happening inside the four walls of his church.

Brian Doerksen, was one of the worship leaders I was able to spend some time with. He’s written worship songs such as Come, "Now Is the Time" and "Light the Fire Again." An amazing man with an incredible heart for orphans and the fatherless. I’m looking forward to spending time with him in July when he’s in Colorado Springs for a concert. Please pray for us at Children’s HopeChest, as we get our Canadian status up and running.