Day 2 - Happy Canada Day!

Hello again from Orange County!

What a blessing to be able to share a day of my life with my Canadian counterparts. From the West Coast all the way to Welcome Hall Mission in Montreal, we are a unique group of Missioners who love what we do very much!

Today we all had a chance to share our Mission's best practise. I talked about our Annual Love Your Neighbour Fund Raising Banquet and Graduation Ceremony. It's definately a highlight of my year and one of my favourite events to plan! It signifies the reason we exist, and it's the best example of what I love to do: organize, ask for money to continue the work, and see amazing success stories.

Melanie talks about how a Greek salad is all the things she hates mixed together: peppers, onions, and tomatoes. Well, I guess this is my Greek salad in reverse!

One of the things I love the most about this annual conference is learning and gleaning from missions that have been around a hundred years. It might as well be a billion! Imagine, none of us having to do two jobs at once?! Vicki, you wouldn't have to make lunch and then rush back to process donations. Jarad, you wouldn't be sponsoring one of the men, only to be interrupted by a pipe exploding! Melanie, imagine the day when you wouldn't be developing curriculum one minute, and planning a dinner f0r 400 people the next?!

Imagine Vancouver's volunteer base of 2500 men and women?! Imagine Calgary's December donations coming in at over TWO MILLION DOLLARS?! Imagine. Imagine. Imagine.

And although we will never be as large as most missions, simply due to our city size, I believe if we continue on doing things right, God will continue on blessing and growing our work to the size HE wants it to be.

Keep pressing on!
Michelle

PS. I slept with the window open!!