Happy New Year Everyone!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today Gary is celebrating his 75th<\/sup> birthday \u2013 the last\nday of 2019 and a tax write-off for his parents way back when. It is hard to believe that he has reached this\nmilestone in his life. He still doesn\u2019t\nknow how to spell \u201cretire.\u201d After his\nscare last spring over experiencing quadruple by-pass surgery he now feels\nyounger than ever. His cardiologist is\nhappy he is walking 3-4 km\/day, 5 days a week and doesn\u2019t want to see him for\nanother year. We are very grateful to\nGod.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow our eldest grandchild, Evan, turns 22. Every New Year\u2019s Day he celebrates his\nbirthday. It is interesting to note how\nimportant our birthdays are to each one of us no matter the number of the\nyear. And how else could we identify\nourselves without giving out our birthdates for bank and credit card authorizations\netc.?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Tomorrow we celebrate the birthday of a new year and a new decade \u2013\ntwo more milestones. There sure are lots of 20-20 vision jokes going around;\nsuch as, \u201cWhat do you call ketchup with 20-20 vision? Heinz-sight!\u201d We have progressed so far through this past\ndecade it is hard to imagine what life will be like during these next ten\nyears. Evan is an electrical engineering student at Calgary University. What will his world look like in five or ten\nyears from now? I still haven\u2019t got a\nhandle on Snapchat like our grandchildren do nor numerous other technologies that\nhave developed. The other day I asked\none of them if it is now the style to wear a shirt tucked in the front of your\npants and left out at the back. And what\nabout all the resolutions that come and go from one year to the next? Why does the initial determination to change\nvanish so quickly? <\/p>\n\n\n\n We would really appreciate your prayers for our Hillside Church in\nMilton. Sadly, we listened to Pastor\nAaron read his letter of resignation this past Sunday morning from his position\nas lead pastor for this church plant. He and his wife, Sara, have gone through\na great deal these past two and a half years \u2013 losing their ministry and\nbusiness partners, moving four times, welcoming their third child and facing\nlots of sickness in their family. They\nbelieve God is now taking them in a different direction. Please pray that Hillside will continue and mature\nto a tall tree that will affect many lives in Milton, a place that is one of\nCanada\u2019s fastest growing cities and a place that definitely needs more\nchurches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n This past Wednesday we celebrated the birth of Jesus Christ once\nagain with all the traditions that have grown up around this momentous event. Don\u2019t\nyou just love Mark Lowry\u2019s Christmas song, Mary Did You Know? It is amazing to me that our society, our world\nhas acknowledged His coming for over 2000 years. Every year we are free to acknowledge His\nbirth is indeed a milestone. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Enjoy the rest of your festivities and make 2020 a good one for\nChrist\u2019s sake.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wendy<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wendy.carter@kainos.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Happy New Year Everyone! Today Gary is celebrating his 75th birthday \u2013 the last day of 2019 and a tax write-off for his parents way back when. It is hard to believe that he has reached this milestone in his life. He still doesn\u2019t know how to spell \u201cretire.\u201d After his scare last spring over […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":174,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions\/174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wendycarter.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}