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.