As one of our brothers shared on Lord’s Day, we’ve been dealing with many changes in our weather, but there are no changes in the direction of the Lord’s move today!

Over the past few days, Abbotsford has experienced record-breaking snowfall. On Saturday, we had 20 cm of snow; the previous record was 7.6 cm in 1957. The enemy may be trying to frustrate us, but as another brother reminded us, that just means we must be doing something right! We are learning to be flexible: to ensure safe travels, we moved the gospel meeting to next Saturday (2/11), instead of door-knocking this past weekend (2/4-2/5), we have been following up with contacts who previously received free Bibles and ministry materials through phone calls, and when the snowfall made travel too difficult/dangerous, we coordinated, read, and sang songs together over Skype.

Today (2/6), we were able to resume door-knocking activities! We knocked on 69 doors and distributed 61 tracts. In the responses of all our contacts, there have been varied levels of openness, but we are encouraged by our conversations with His precious seeking ones.

Highlights of our trip have included our time blending with the local saints. There has been much mutual shepherding, strengthening and encouragement, for the building up of the Body. On Saturday night (2/4), we re-watched Message Two of the Thanksgiving Conference. It reminded us that He is doing only one work today, the work of the building of the Body of Christ. Hallelujah for the Body, the masterpiece of God!

GTCA-Abbotsford First Week Statistics:

  • 572 doors knocked and tracts distributed
  • 171 recipients of the Bible and ministry books
  • 112 recipients are open to receive further contact
  • 3 prayed to receive the Lord
  • 3 new ones came to our seminar
  • 219 follow-up contacts from this year and last year

Prayer Burdens:

  • The Lord would personally draw many to the seminar this Thursday at the Clearbrook Library.
  • The Lord would cover every detail of the gospel meeting this coming Saturday, have a free way to flow, and release the salvation of our friends and gospel contacts!
  • The Lord would operate the willing and the working in all of our follow-up contacts for their “much more” salvation.