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FREE MOBILE BIBLE READING PLAN FOR 2017 Uncategorized

FREE MOBILE BIBLE READING PLAN FOR 2017

When you have a sodium deficiency, your body craves salty foods. You might not even notice that you’re craving salty foods in particular, but your body is reacting to that deficiency by creating a desire for something that restores it. When you have a spiritual deficiency, your soul craves life-giving food. Your soul is reacting to a deficiency by creating a desire to be restored. Craving more of God? More out of your faith? More authenticity? Junk food for your soul won't cut it. Over and over again I hear people relate how reading the Bible - consistently - satisfied their cravings. Living Proof "I want to thank God for somehow giving me this idea to read the Bible. It…
Bob Jones
December 22, 2016
HEARING GOD’S VOICE: SHERILYN GRAFF’S STORY Uncategorized

HEARING GOD’S VOICE: SHERILYN GRAFF’S STORY

When you look up "determined" in the dictionary you'll find Sherilyn Graff's image. Sherilyn is a recent high school grad from North Pointe who followed her heart to serve in world missions. She is a rough and tumble rugby player with a gentle spirit. She's determined to make her life count for God. Sherilyn shares her heart in this post and lets you in on a powerful spiritual experience she had in hearing God's voice. Follow Sherilyn's journey on her Facebook page. This fall, I attended a Discipleship Training School (DTS) through an organization called Youth With a Mission (YWAM). The vision of my program is to send out a ‘wave of youth’ into the world to do missions work,…
Bob Jones
December 4, 2016
ESCAPE FROM VIETNAM: THUY’S STORY Uncategorized

ESCAPE FROM VIETNAM: THUY’S STORY

I would like to tell you a story. It’s a true story. It’s my story. Though I could never have imagined it at the time, the distressing circumstances and events that I’m about to unveil, were the unforeseen gifts that transformed me into the person that I am and the life that I’ve chosen to live. Thuy Cao's story is unforgettable. When you meet Thuy at the doors of North Pointe, on the badminton court or a snowboard slope you'd never guess his back story. That's why we're sharing it. His escape from Vietnam four decades ago, his journey to Canada and the formation of his Christian faith have the fingerprints of God all over them. Thuy is a much loved…
Bob Jones
November 20, 2016
THUY’S STORY: PART 2 Uncategorized

THUY’S STORY: PART 2

It took us the better part of a day to arrive at a refugee camp in Malaysia on the island of Pulau Bidong. It would become our home for over five months. It was here that I came to know that there was a God who was watching over every step of my life. I came to know that He is real, and that He has so much compassion for me. I discovered that God leads me into the life that He wants for me. God's Hand On My Life There were a thousand refugees who came out to welcome us to the island. The refugee population at the time was well over fifteen thousand. We thought that was a…
Bob Jones
November 20, 2016
PRESENT OVER PERFECT Uncategorized

PRESENT OVER PERFECT

I was asked to write a review of Present Over Perfect by Shauna Niequist. After reading it, basically I was asked to review my life! I am a mother, a wife and I have a career that involves long hours that are irregular plus travel. No matter the order of these three things, I regularly feel guilty for not “fulfilling” either one or even all of the three roles “perfectly”. The Choice: Present Or Perfect Shauna Niequist has been there and details this struggle in her book. She states that at the crossroad in her life, “There we were, women in our thirties. Educated, married, mothers, women who have careers, who manage homes and oversee companies. And there we were,…
Bob Jones
November 2, 2016
EMOTIONAL SCARS, BARS AND STARS Uncategorized

EMOTIONAL SCARS, BARS AND STARS

Pinch yourself, Kelita! You’re not dreaming - that is Reba McIntire singing beside you. Yep, the same surreal feeling as being on stage with k. d. Lang. Just like the starstruck stance of Eileen (Shania) Twain when she sang back up for you. Through The Hardships You would never guess from the vibrancy in Kelita's smile that she endured years of childhood sexual abuse, addiction, tragedy and marital unfaithfulness. Kelita’s life history reads like a heart-rending version of Ripley’s believe-it-not. Father - suicide when she was 11. Mother - died of cancer when she was 14. She was repeatedly abused by a step-brother. A younger sister died in a car accident. Her older brother drowned. At 18 she moved 2,200km to…
Bob Jones
September 21, 2016
WARNING: CONTAGIOUS PASSION AHEAD Uncategorized

WARNING: CONTAGIOUS PASSION AHEAD

Elmer and Sherry Komant's places of mission service read like a travelogue through hell. Kigali, Rwanda; Bujumbura, Burundi, Mombassa, Kenya. The Komants led a church in a Muslim controlled city in Kenya, faced the after effects of genocide in Rwanda and planted a church in the poorest country on the continent of Africa. They recently survived a political coup in Burundi. And at an age when most Canadians are focused on retirement, they show no signs of tiring let alone retiring. Komant Adventures The Komants have been held up at gunpoint and had their lives threatened in more ways than one. Elmer nearly died of brain cancer forty years ago. At times they've lived oceans apart from their children. The…
Bob Jones
September 18, 2016
THEY CALL ME JFRANKTANK: JAMES FRANKLIN Uncategorized

THEY CALL ME JFRANKTANK: JAMES FRANKLIN

As a professional football player, James Franklin has learned to avoid getting sacked by 300lb rushing lineman and the crushing weight of unfulfilled dreams. Franklin played his last NCAA college game by winning the 2014 Cotton Bowl in front of a national TV audience and 72,000 fans in Arlington, Texas. He now spends all of his game time for the Edmonton Eskimos on the sidelines signalling in plays to Mike Reilly. His faith, family and focus have kept him in the game. Positive Parents Franklin was born in Edmond, Oklahoma, on July 23, 1991. His father’s ministry work kept them on the move when he was young, taking them to Oklahoma, Tennessee, and Missouri before setting in Corinth, Texas, when…
Bob Jones
September 7, 2016
WHY WE SEND YOUTH MISSIONS TEAMS Uncategorized

WHY WE SEND YOUTH MISSIONS TEAMS

Like many others before them, the Anomaly Missions Team to Mexico returned home far richer than they left. Their increase wasn't in gold or gems but in priceless experiences and golden memories. Pastor Jeremy Gifford has been leading ministry teams south of the border for the past six years. Every trip, like every team, is unique. The 2016 team consisted of eighteen members, aged fifteen to twenty three along with Pastor Jeremy and Kerri Wagensveld (whose age remains a closely guarded secret). Peter and Bonnie Kozak from North Pointe moved to Vicente Guerrero, Mexico to serve as missionaries over a decade ago. They've hosted all of our missions teams. The onsite ministries include an orphanage, special needs care, a halfway…
Bob Jones
August 31, 2016
PRECIOUS HERITAGE OF PERSECUTED FAITH Uncategorized

PRECIOUS HERITAGE OF PERSECUTED FAITH

She held her breath under the church floorboards fearing the sickening thud of her mother’s body. Her terrified mind reeled, considering how horribly life had changed since the invasion from the North part of Korea. This is a guest post from Dr Ron Powell about his wife, Anna's mother. Ron is the Youth Ministry Director and Field Education Director at Vanguard College, Edmonton, AB. He and his family are volunteer leaders at North Pointe. The Piano Sure, they were poor and fatherless but in my mother-in-law, Myung Ja Kim’s mind, life had been ideal. She remembered when the Christian pastor had come to the village to start the little church. The best thing about it for her was the piano.…
Bob Jones
August 21, 2016