As I came to work on Monday morning I looked through the emails that had come in. One of them wasn't even a question. It was only one line, one statement. Very short but the message put a lump in my throat that I continued to have all morning.
The message read "Yesterday my dad died in Iraq" I could only amagine how those few words dripped with pain. I quickly remembered that yesterday was father's day.
It seemed to me that this wounded soul was typing their few words to see if any one cared. Would there be any body that could share the pain of losing their father on father's day. It made me happy to know that we do care, we want to here the world's pain. That one of the main reasons we do what we do. Lord, help those who have no father to celebrate, and no one to help share the pain. Amen

We post this in tribute to a great child of God, Irene Driedger.
When we think of people who are caring, loving, honest, real, and have a longing for people to know God, few names come to mind before Irene.

We were in utter shock to hear of her passing at the young age of 52. It has been a real blessing to have known her for the time we did. She would leave you almost stunned at the depth of her questions, as she did not beat around the bush. A refreshing trait.

Irene will be missed, her family in a true legacy of what she was as each one is following the Lord. Her passing left us with a deep sense of how we are not to take our time here and those we love for granted.

God bless, the Driedger family.

Wow, has it really been that long? Guilty as charged, the post dates don't lie.

I still hear the odd question as to why we changed our name from Campus Crusade for Christ, Canada to Power to Change. I did report about that while out in Manitoba and we also mentioned it in our newsletter but I thought it was appropriate to state the answer hear too.

When Leonard Buhler came to Langley to head up CCCC he met with the leadership of the then 14 different ministries an asked what they thought were some of the major issues facing CCCC. They told him the number one issue was our name.

What were the issues?
1) Although our ministry started as a campus ministry we have long been much more. CCCC had 15 ministries when we changed our name, so our name no longer accurately reflected who we are.
2) Crusade is a word that is marked with animosity is the muslim world, so to effectively reach them we wanted a name that would not close the door before we could start a conversation.
3)Unfortunately even our Lords name has keep us from effectively reaching places of higher learning on our own continent. (yes it's true)
4)I have had to an many occasions had to explain to people that we are not Youth for Christ. They are a totally different ministry and so I hope that this will bring an end to that mix up.

What possitive things have come up from our change? Well we believe that our name now begs a question, Power to Change what? We had a very encouraging incident at our training for new staff here in town. We had a sign out side the hotel we use for the week of training. A lady drove by the sign, read it, turned around, came in an asked what that meant because she said "I need to change my life." The staff leader then got to share the gospel with the lady.

That was reassurance to me we have the right name. Your comments are always welcome, we do have them monitored so we don't get trouble. God bless.
Till next time.

"The Shack"
Perhaps you've heard of the book.

I liked the way it portrayed the Trinity and how the victim worked through 'the great sadness' with the help of God the father, Jesus the son and the Holy Spirit. Portraying strongly the close relationship that we can have Jesus. God is on our side and desires for us to live in total freedom. I would like to read it again with my Bible close by.
Definite recommended reading.

By Marj

If you were to die today, where would you be? Would you be in heaven? Are you not sure? Would you like to be sure? If you do click the link below and watch the video. (6 min. 38 sec.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSjh27cwFyY

It must be posting time again. Lately at work we have several partnerships that we have formed to do mentoring for other ministries. One of them is for a ministry that is a radio talk show that ministers to youth. This ministry is broadcast in numerous U.S. cities and they get far more calls then they can deal with. Now they take callers information and send it by email to us. This lets them help more youth so they were eager to partner with us. So we have been answering lot of youth emails lately and have asked our volunteers to have criminal background checks done as an extra precaution. It has opened my eyes to what is going on in the youth world today.

The ministry is called Dawson McAllister Ministries or DMLive. If you have high speed you can listen to some of his programs at his web site. http://dmlive.com/listenindex.html
Till next time.

Hiking and site seeing

White Rock Beach

Cascade falls (Beautiful)

I don't no if I like bc it doesnt snow enough. I miss Meagan and Kathryn and Austin and Graham oh and also Terry and Tony(my second parents). I like BC because there is always lots to do like camping, hiking ,swimminng and stuff. I miss having a small church when everyone know's everyone. But most of all I miss the wide open spaces and the climbing trees and the harvest season when the air smells like dusty sweet wheat.

It was a blast when the knutts came to BC here we went to white rock we played in the salty water and dug for clams that squirted water though the whole. me, Jesse and Jenelle made a sand castle(well it was suppose to be a sand castle).

We also went to a waterfall close by called cascade falls. we hiked up the hill till we were on top of the waterfall there, there was pools at the top where we swam the water was freezing cooled and refreshing after the long hike up.

As for me well as I said i like all the things to do here i like it when people come to see us from Manitoba. i do wish it would snow more even though we have gotten a lot this year. i enjoy the sports basket ball volleyball and rugby. i like school fine and i do fine in it. the best part is sports though.

by Kristine Heinrichs