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Wow! I can hardly believe that 9 months ago, we had temporarily moved to some offices on 1st/Commercial, as our epic journey of getting an elderly care facility on Napier Street unfolds. We have been on one huge roller coaster ride in gaining this property. Well we got word that by June 1st we needed to be out of our temporary office space on 1st/Commercial as they had others moving in there. This did not disappoint me much. It was an awesome gift for the church to give us this space, but it was far from beneficial for us, and I was ready to move. [Praying before we move at 1st/Commercial] On Friday (4 days ago) we were given the go-ahead that we could move in and occupy the first 2 floors of the NAPIER STREET building - YAY!!!! [The Napier Building] What this means is that we will use the space only for offices, as we await our new rezoning application approval from the city. In the meantime, the owner wants to sell it to us...1.2 million. I look forward to handing that chequ...

I love my dad. He is the coolest guy I know, and one of the best father's I've ever seen. More recently I have seen him be the best grandfather I've ever seen as well! I remember when I was growing up that my dad was always willing to come with me to all my different extra-curricular activities whether it was basketball, volleyball, badminton, horse riding events, gymnastics, piano classes, choir, church youth activities, and various other things just to be there with me. So many of my friends always picked my dad to be the chaperone on trips 'cause he was always "so cool". I knew I had the coolest dad. He always believed in me, He told me that I could do "anything" I wanted, that I could it better than 5 men too! And sometimes I'd try! I have learned so much from my dad. I think the first thing he has taught me is how to value people - even if I didn't want to, or even if it was hard to love them. He never forced me to do that, but...

It was so much fun having Carlene stay with us here in Vancouver. Here she is with Leigh in China Town. She totally spoiled us, and left a giant hole when she left - she melded so easy and quickly into our lives. Although, I'm sure she's happy to return home to her hubby now tho after many days/weeks on the road! Here's Carlene in our spare room. Sarah has settled in nicely to her new room and home, and we have to say that we absolutely love having her here. We had fun decorating and setting up her room, as well as shopping to get all the things she needed before Carlene left. Also, our MA team went to Seattle for a 3 day staff retreat, where we talked through our last year, and met with some YWAM Seattle friends to share ideas for the summer teams coming. We have a new staff working with us Chris from Toronto who is looking to set up Mission Adventures there and is here this summer getting more ideas for their base. For fun and to glean ideas for our summer theme, ...