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Please Continue to Pray for Our Ministry

I've shared with many of you that we are in the process of trying to raise funds to create a Youth Centre in our community.  This is where we truly believe God is leading us, and we are standing on that.  We need to raise around $20,000 to make it happen, and we are trying to do this through grants, but so far we have been turned down by 2 foundations that we thought were going to be a "shoe in".  I met with our federal MP Daryl Kramp this past week and, being a native of the Centre Hastings area he is very excited about the goal and is working on finding some funds for us as well.  Please pray that things happen soon.  Our original goal date was September, but it looks like we will be pushing that back right now.. not sure when, but maybe January to be safe?

If you would like to donate to this project, please click the Donate button on the right side of this page.

Thanks for your prayers.

Just one more long post from simply tweet.. Just trying to figure out how twitter and my blog are going to respond to simply tweet sending out messages for Posterous.. Seems to not post to twitter 1000 times.. Which Is good.. And here's a photo to see how

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Just one more long post from simply tweet.. Just trying to figure out how twitter and my blog are going to respond to simply tweet sending out messages for Posterous.. Seems to not post to twitter 1000 times.. Which Is good.. And here's a photo to see how that works..
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The Great Hike

This is Dana Meise.  I met him today when I was in Tweed at the coffee shop.  He walked in with a giant back back, gps and a bunch of other gear.. I figured he was either crazy, or was on some kind of adventure.. and an adventure is a major under statement!  Dana is WALKING across Canada using the Trans Canadian Trail, which is a walking trail that stretches all across Canada.  The trail is 18,078 KM long (thats 11,233 miles) and Dana is walking it.  He isn't doing it straight through though, he walks for 6 months at a time starting up the next year in the same place he left off.

If you run into Dana, please take the time to say hi to him, buy him some lunch, give him a place to stay.  He's got a few rules that he has given himself, the main rule being that, he's not allowed to ask for anything.  He walks all day and sleeps in a tent by night, but due to the kindness of many people across the eastern part of Canada has only stayed in his tent a few nights, because people are providing places for him to stay at night.  We wanted to offer him a place, but our house was quite a bit off of his path, so I didn't want to create more walking for him than necessary.

You can check out Dana's website at www.thegreathike.com he posts videos and photos and the odd blog post when he has the chance to keep people up-to-date with what he's doing.  There is also a place on his site where you can make donations.  The money is not for him or his trip.. thats why he only walks 6 months at a time, because the other 6 months of the year he is working, saving money for his trip.  The donations given on his site (and to him while he's walking) go to the Brain Injured Group.. which is something that his father also suffers from.

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