Almost Weekly Report

Wow, I can’t believe that it is already the end of the month. I have been busy. Too busy in fact.
Last weekend was History Maker (www.historymaker.hm) which was amazing. It was really good to see youth passionate about God. There was some amazing stuff that happened too.
This week, I found a place to live. Finally. And I move in on monday. I am looking forward to it. Up till now, I’ve been stuck at the church all day. I come in the morning, and don’t leave until I need to leave. Sometimes I have a 2hr break in between meetings and other things like that. But It hasn’t been worth it to go back to coquitlam, especially when there is a 30 min unpredictable commute.
This weekend, i’m going back to the island for one day. I’m hoping to pick up furniture from the rents.

Those of you who know me will agree, I like coffee. And interestingly enough, so do the people at my new church.

During my first week here at New Life, I was invited over for dinner to meet with Kris and Karen, the pastor’s kids, and Doug and Patty. It came to the part of the meal where the Coffee was put on, and this led to a discussion about coffee.
One thing led to another, and we started talking about roasting your own coffee! Now, this may seem new to some of you, but I was introduced to roasting by my Friend mike. And let me tell you, it is superb! All you need is a Air Popcorn Popper, and Green coffee beans. The result is that you end up with the freshest coffee you have ever tasted.
This sparked some interest with my dinning companions, and on Sunday, Doug came up to me with a small package of green coffee beans.

So here is the real story. Yesterday, I roasted my own coffee beans! This was a first, I have helped mike roast coffee. But never on my own. And it was quite an experience. One of the daycare workers in the church thought that there was a fire in the building! (although, I was roasting outside) Anyways, by happenstance, I roasted a magnificent dark roast. I call it the evening roast, it comes from a Peru Organic Bean.

Well, It’s been a while since my past Post. So here’s what’s been happening:

I am finally Graduated. I walked across the stage and recieved by BA in Pastoral Theology. And 3 days later, I started working at New Life Assembly in Surrey, BC.

Conveniently, my brother and sister-in-law are kindly putting me up. So I have a place to stay for the first couple months.

I’m now in day 3 of my first week as a Pastor. Already, The Head pastor, Martin Miles had to go to england for a family emergency. And today there was a pipe break at one of the schools. So as a result, when I dropped off the Kindergarten Out of School kids, I had to wait an extra 1/2 hour. (not too big of a deal).

Anyways, that’s what’s new.