Here are the highlights of our Classis meeting on January 13-14.
- All the delegates from the Fraser Valley got to fly out to Lethbridge on a corporate jet. Thank you Elder Jack Hummelman (New Westminster).
- We have two new churches in Classis Western Canada. Ponoka URC planted a daughter church in the Lacombe, AB area and we welcomed the New Westminster, B.C. ORC into our federation.
- The minister of New West, Rev. Gary Zekveld, sustained his colloquim doctum (doctrinal discussion).
- MARS grad Corey Dykstra from Thunder Bay, ON sustained his candidacy exam. He did such an excellent job, classis waived his ordination exam if he is called in this classis. Corey is a very gifted young man and I trust will be a blessings in the church of the Jesus Christ if the Lord is pleased to open a door to that service. Picture of Corey and wife Jill with baby on the right.
- Mr. Scott Finch from Regina, SK was elected to be our "songbook committee" representative from our classis. He was highly recommended by the delegates from Regina.
I believe the full minutes of classis can be found at http://www.urcna.org/ under Classis Western Canada. With so many difficult classis meetings around our federation lately, I found that ours was filled with joy and thankfulness. Under the able leadership of Rev. Hank Van der Woerd as chairman, the delegates were on their way at 2:30 on Friday, with plenty of time to make it to their after classis pulpit exchanges. I was in Edmonton.
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