New Assignments

Some of you will know we’ve just returned from the first round of Personnel Consultations.  The process runs a bit like this… Personnel forwards a list of officers, those in sequence for a move, in other words those who have been 5, 7, 9 etc… years in their present appointments.  Then in discussion with those…

The Eastland Family

When I was about 7 or 8 years of age I remember seeing the Eastland Brothers Construction Company trucks rumbling around Niagara Falls Ontario.  The Eastland name was, in those days, a familiar sight in that small city. My maternal side of the family is the Eastland family.  My Grandpa Eastland came from Folkestone England,…

Speak O Lord

I was really taken by this song this morning in worship: Speak O Lord , the bold I’ve added as those lines which jumped out at me. Speak, O Lord, as we come to You To receive the food of Your Holy Word. Take Your truth, plant it deep in us; Shape and fashion us in…