I don’t know how the friendship started. I was young, sitting in church, very aware that if I started goofing off, I would get that dreaded pinch or swat from my parents. And oh, I would hear about it at home, and my family was well-known—two rows from the back of the church. All the [...]
I spend most of my working time around 3 to 12 year olds. That makes my job one of the best I can imagine. But I have also discovered I really like hanging out with teenagers. Most of the opportunities to do that in the last four years have been with my involvement in the [...]
I walked into the school in mid-August and was greeted by a very friendly student who had been working with Mr. McGrail all summer doing school maintenance. I asked him about his summer and he immediately asked me all about mine! It was such a delightful conversation! I have to be honest, many times I [...]
I recently heard a pastor refer to France as a spiritual wasteland, and this wasn't the first time I had heard this. Twenty-one of our students went to France this past spring break and I asked them if they found this to be true. They agreed that French culture is very secular. Very few people [...]
I went to a memorial service on Saturday for my father’s best friend and pastor, Carlin Weinhauer. He was a remarkable man and a testimony of what God can do with a servant who puts Jesus first in all his words and deeds. He accomplished many, many things in his lifetime, but perhaps the most [...]
My first tennis racquet was one my mom picked up at a discount store in Bellingham when I was nine years old. It had a metal frame and it weighed a tonne. The thing was indestructible. In other words it was perfect for my use as a somewhat careless middle school-aged boy. In fact, forty [...]
I grew up in the heart of the city of Vancouver’s west side in a little neighborhood called Kerrisdale. But although I am a city boy, my father, a family physician, taught my twin brother and I how to live like we were from the country. I think it is because my father wanted his [...]
