Almost Weekly Report

Well… here I am, yet again traveling! However, this time I’m not wandering around Northern BC (although I did enjoy it!). This time, I’m moving to my NEW HOME! That’s right, my new home. I’m on my way to Port Alice.

For those of you who do not know, Port Alice is on the North End of Vancouver Island and is 45 min from Port Hardy (the most northern town on the Island). Now I know what you are asking, ‘why on earth would you be going there?’ AND/OR ‘are you crazy?’. So first I will give you the simple answer: Because AND/OR Yes.

I’m going to Port Alice for work, more specifically to be the Pastor (yes, senior pastor) of Oceanview Christian Assembly. Right now the plan is that I will be there for 1 year, and then we’ll see what happens.

It’s a very interesting prospect as I will find lots of new experiences and things to learn. And you will be able to journey with me with ‘almost weekly’ right here at the Almost Weekly Report.

So as of tomorrow, the return address on all my outgoing mail will read Port Alice, BC.

I have now driven over 1500 km’s into the great white north; crashed on a couch in William’s Lake last Tuesday, survived a snow storm in the Pine Pass the following wednesday, and made it safely to Chetwynd.

In Chetwynd I had the pleasure of catching up with my friends the Helsets. They are the pastors at one of the local churches. Dennis during the first few days was away in Edmonton attending a wedding with his daughter. So I was afforded the opportunity to preach. Dennis got back late that sunday night, and after spending some time with him the next morning I headed up to Fort St. John.

That is where I am now, in Fort St. John. It is strange and surreal. I haven’t been up here for 6 whole years and it is strange to see all the changes. I am staying with my friends Mitch and Caron Branch. The Plan as it stands is that I will be back in Surrey on Thursday, this should hopefully give me enough time to finish the job of packing up my house.

Along this whole northern adventure I took the time to stop and take a picture of the Peace River. It was taken at an outlook about 20 mins outside of Hudson Hope on the highway from Chetwynd to Fort St. John.

Well, it has been an eventful week! I never knew that saying goodbye could be such an exhausting thing. It seems like I was continually going to a Go-Away party (Read “goodbye party”), or making a point of stopping to see someone in case I didn’t get a chance to say ‘see ya later’.

It started with visiting Connaught Heights and letting them know what was up, then on monday I had a goodbye party at the District Office to say my formal farewell to the staff there. Then monday night was the last night at Nightshift. Thursday was Goodbye to the Preteens. Friday was goodbye to the Childcare Kids, Parents and Staff… then the Youth in the evening. And finally it all came to an end with the Sunday Celebration! Whew, am I glad that’s all over. It’s tiring.

Despite the end of the continual state of farewell, the journey continues. Tomorrow morning I leave for William’s Lake, BC. Here I get to visit my step-cousin twice removed. Eventually my travels will take me up to Chetwynd and Fort St. John, BC and back down to Surrey for the anticipated Moving Day.

All I can say is this… I can’t wait till I finally get to Port Alice. It seems quite far off. But it wouldn’t be an adventure otherwise and I am truly thankful to all the people who are supporting, encouraging, and blessing me along the way.

Well,  in preparation for another move I am faced with a challenge of my skills. There are so many things that I would like to do, and even more things that I need to do.

First off, I would like to get this blog to the point where I can distribute it’s address and feel comftorable with sending people to the site (so as a result your input helps). Second, I would like to catalogue my books as I put them into boxes so I know what I have. This undertaking requires a lot of time, and I don’t necessarily have a lot. Third, I need to finish all the projects that I had started before I leave for Port Alice. I had started things with UCM that I would really like to finish, brochures and advertising. You know projects.

Finally, I would just like to be done! I have no clue how I’m going to make it through this week.

Well, here you are. This is the NEW ‘Almost Weekly Report’. Or at least the start of it.

Some of you may have followed the AWR previously at our blogspot location and you probably noticed that the Blogging had become less frequent. Let me reassure you, AWR still exists! It is just undergoing a transformation.

I found that in increased measure that I was being limited by the format of our previous home (Blogspot). It served us well, but it is time for a change. This new Format is currently a work in progress, and it isn’t an attempt to revive something that was dead, but rather grow and expand what already existed.

Hopefully you will find the growing AWR all the more versatile and even more useful. So check back almost weekly for new changes.

Well, here we are! It’s come time to shake things up a bit.
For those of you who aren’t aware, I’m in the process of transition. I’ll be moving to Port Alice within the next month or so to assume a role as a Lead Pastor for one year.

With this transition comes the need for an expanded and change of some of the things in my life. One of these is the Almost Weekly Report.

Initially the AWR had a simple but useful purpose: it was brought into existence to let people know what I was up to and where I was. Well, as my life expanded and changed, the format of the AWR began to limit the What I was doing. It needed to include more. I realized that there was more to my life than the musings of a week. But the purpose of the AWR contradicted this. As a result, I came to a point of cross roads. Either stop blogging, or go deep into the thoughts and effects that events were having on my life. Unfortunately, the blogging stopped. Although unintentionally.

So, with the change of address in my life comes the change in address for the AWR. I am moving the AWR to almostweeklyreport.com

This new home will allow the AWR to continue and grow and learn with me through my journey. It will let me keep you up to date with the What. But also let you know the How, the Why, the Grow, and maybe even bring you some help along the way.

So check us out… almost weekly at our new home:
www.almostweeklyreport.com

-Caleb