KEEPING TRACK OF ERWIN & GAIL: In Canada

Now at this point, we have finished our last few days in The UK. In fact we have, at this point, finished our whirlwind tour of all The WEC properties in UK and Europe. We are sitting at Gatwick Airport in London waiting to board our final flight to Calgary where we will try to put some form of normality back into our lives for a little while at least. In the last three days we spent one day seeing the WEC Property at Leeds North of London then the next day we drove over to a place called Over Peover pronounced, here in this part of the world, Over Pever , but we can’t hold all the silliness that occurs over here against them because they don’t know better. Just think about it, they drive on the wrong side of the road for miles and miles at MPH speed limits. Then they buy their gas (Petro) by the litres with pounds sterling then, when they get home they buy their meat and produce buy the 100 gram and weigh themselves by the stone so how could you hold the mispronunciation of a couple of words against them. Anyways while we were in Over Peover we looked for some evidence of Gail’s family that seems to have immigrated to Canada from that area. We were not successful but did find a couple of very old churches and cemeteries with some head stone dating back from before any records we have of these descendants and feel confident that we, at least, were in the area where they would have resided. Yesterday morning we left Leeds and travelled to another very old WEC property in Derby where we visited with a Canadian Wecer before going to Bulstrode to spend a part of the night trying to sleep before coming here. I’m going to post a few pics and see if we can get this published before we leave here.

God Bless. With love

Erwin & Gail

P.S.

Well obviously I didn’t get this published at the Gatwick Airport because, try as I might, I couldn’t get on line there or when I did Google said I couldn’t go there because the connection was not secure. So to make a short story even shorter our flight took off on time landed ½ hr early in Calgary and we hit the road running and didn’t stop, except for necessary breaks, till we were in Meadow Lake Saskatchewan, about an 8 hr drive. By that time we had been up and at it for just less than 25 hrs and I was already in the mumble mode so talking to you then would have been incoherent at best. So here it is 7:30 AM here, or 1:30 PM in the UK and 2:30 in Europe and I am, not just a little, confused. It is great to be back on home soil all seems to have fared well during our absents, Kelsey was glad to see us and so far hasn’t left Gail’s side even to the point of standing outside the bathroom door when she couldn’t get any closer. Now, that the whirlwind tour of UK and Europe is over all that is left, of that, is to analyse just exactly what we learned and what God would have had us learn. Then we can tell you and anyone we can about the need for people, especially people who may not preach or teach but have been gifted with skills in all sorts of practical application, and to convince them that, although it may be viewed by many as a lesser sort of gifting, that they are, in fact, among the most needed missionaries in the mission world. Without them, the preaches and teaches, the church planters and leaders would not be able to get to the field let alone stay and be effective. So when God says go plunge a toilet, string a wire, build a hut or dig a well none of you will think that isn’t necessary and refuse to go, or to support or worse yet even pray for that form of ministry. There I go, preaching again, O well you may have to get used to that.

This time I will get those pictures up and this thing published. God bless you again.