Saturday, March 31, 2018

Interesting Story

Thank you, Diane, for sending in this interesting story from Adventist Mission.

Enjoy reading it, everyone.

Dolby, the best hunting dog in Suminka village in Papua, Indonesia. (Gary Roberts / Adventist Aviation International)
Seventh-day Adventist Dog

The dog refuses to hunt on Sabbath and will not eat pork.

By Andrew McChesney, adventistmission.org
All the villagers raced to the airstrip, singing and dancing, when mission pilot Gary Roberts landed at Suminka, a remote village in the Indonesian province of Papua.
It had taken the villagers 10 years to cut down the trees by hand to clear the way for an airstrip at their mountainous village, and Gary’s mission plane was the first to land. This was a big event.
As Gary stepped out of the plane, the crowd grew silent. The singing and dancing stopped.
“Is this a Seventh-day Adventist plane?” a man asked.
The villagers had seen the three angels’ logo on the airplane’s tail.
Gary was surprised. He hadn’t expected people in Suminka, a village previously accessible only by a long trek by foot, to have heard about the Adventist Church.
The villagers soon told him that many of them were keeping the Sabbath. The reason, they said, was because of a Seventh-day Adventist dog.

An Unusual Dream

The story started several years earlier just across the border, in Papua New Guinea, when an Adventist pastor, Moses, and a lay pastor named Darius had the same dream on the same night. 
In the morning, one said, “I had a dream last night.” 
The other said, “I did, too, but I didn’t want to tell you.” 
They both had seen an angel in the dream, and the angel said, “Go to Suminka.”
A few days later, the two men set off on the three-day hike to Suminka.
Arriving at the village, they announced evangelistic meetings would be held every evening for a week under a tree on the far side of the village. But the day of the first meeting, Pastor Moses fell ill with malaria. He was terribly sick, and the villagers predicted that he would die.
“But if he gets better, then we will listen to him at the meeting,” they said.
All day Pastor Moses was sick. But at 5 p.m., he suddenly felt better. He took a bath and preached. Afterward, he fell very ill again. 
This happened all week. He was sick until 5 p.m.; recovered, took a bath and preached; and then sank back into bed. At the meetings, he told the people about the Sabbath and cautioned against easting unclean meat such as pork. Wild pigs are a popular dish in the Papua mountains.
When the week ended, Pastor Moses made an appeal. No one come forward.
Pastor Moses and Darius returned home deeply disappointed. They wondered why they had had the dream without any results.



A Changed Dog

Back at Suminka, life resumed as normal — until Saturday morning. The village’s best hunting dog, Dolby, got up and headed down the trail. Its owner and other villagers thought it was onto something, so they followed. The dog went to the tree where the missionary had spoken and sat down. The villagers thought that was strange.
The next Saturday, the same thing happened again. The dog got up, walked over to the tree, and sat down. It refused to hunt on Saturdays.
The villagers noticed that the dog had stopped eating pork. It refused to hunt for wild pigs and other unclean animals.
“Dolby has become a Seventh-day Adventist,” one villager said. 
“If he worships on Sabbath, we should, too,” said another.
Many villagers began to keep the Sabbath and stopped eating unclean foods.
Gary, the mission pilot, was excited when he heard the story, and he later called Pastor Moses. The pastor was some distance away from Suminka, so he contacted Darius and told him to plan on spending a year at the village, teaching the people about Bible truths.
Today, about half of the village of 200 adults and children worship on Sabbath, and 21 people have been baptized.
Dolby continues to shun unclean food. Villagers say he is a very healthy dog

Friday, March 30, 2018

Mission Trip with B.... 2018

Beverly wrote a little bit and sent a couple of photos from her mission trip this past couple of weeks.

Nice we can have a peek at what the group did over in Nicaragua.

Jud also sent some photos via Karen and it was so nice of them to share them for us to see.

Thank you everyone.

The group at the beginning of the trip.   PC:Beverly
 Our group of 12 (4 already at destination ) in front of palace buildings in Managua. +33. Breaky at 0630 and off.to.airport by 7.15a. Flight to Puerto Cabesas followed by 5 hr bus ride to AWA base in La Tronquera.
Not sure when next wi-fi opportunity. Just wanted to touch base and say so far... so good. B


Beautiful and useful bridge built by the mission group March 2018  PC: Beverly
Bridge project complete! Left yesterday for over night at Verbo mission PV, flight today (12 passenger plane) to Monagua and bus to Granada. Here over Sabbath then start home Sunday.

Beverly planing. PC: Jud W








Thank you for praying for this group of missionaries.

Thanks for these last several photos Jud.


Monday, March 19, 2018

IIW Sabbath... March 17th

Everything was so nice this Sabbath.

Praise Time, SS, Praise Time, Church service with all of its different pieces and parts...

If you were able to attend I am sure you enjoyed the speaking as well as the special musics too.

Have a look to see what took place.

Ruby shared a good mission story in Adult SS...

The children enjoyed rain showers on the umbrella.

We enjoyed the signing presentation for the Sabbath School. Thank you so much for sharing your talent with us.
Good to have Pastor Bob back and Myrna...These faithful three add to our Praise Time.
And Bonnie playing the organ is so wonderful too.
Choristers at Praise Time
She was busy this Sabbath... telling the children's story.  Thank you for all you do and add to our church!!

Such a ready and willing helper for so many different things... this time she is leading the Children's song in Praise Time.

Singing "My God Loves Me and All the Wonders I See" (but someone has a little cut on his finger... awww)
Someone is really enjoying the signing with this special music. So nice to see her involved.
Signing the song... what a lovely addition to the words.

Visiting but still willing to help out by having the Scripture and Prayer. Thank you so much.

IIW speaker Pastor Chris Holland speaks for the service. So much to appreciate about his talk.
Preaching a wonderful sermon...


She smiled and sang and shared a message in each of her songs. So appreciated her talent at our church. Thank you.

Saturday, March 17, 2018

Fellowship Meal Sabbath - March 10th 2018

We came to church to be greeted by warm air in the foyer along with a warm greeting by Karen, only to go into the church sanctuary and have it cold!!
No heat in the sanctuary or the fellowship room.
But.... once all the people arrived and Doug L brought a plug in heater things did not seem nearly so cool any more.

What would we do if we had to meet outside in all kinds of weather?

So thankful for a nice church building to worship in.

Here are some of the things that happened last weekend.

Such do appreciate the visitors that come to OCC and also share their talents.

She led a very nice Praise Time.  Thank you so much.  Keeping warm with her winter coat on. 


Someone is there doing their colouring. 

Children's SS 
Each one is important and we are glad they are here. 


Doug F encouraging us to go out to the neighbourhood. 

Beverly tells the children's story... 

We sure do appreciate this young man coming to share his music talents with us... 
Our Bible worker at OCC this weekend.  She had the sermon.  So nice to see her ready smile. 

He is always so willing to take a turn at the Scripture Reading.  We really enjoying hearing him. 
Reading the Bible during her talk. 

Young visitors quietly wait in the aisle way..:)

Children's SS room Bible verse. 

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After waiting to the end of the line these helpful ladies have their turn in line for the food. 

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A Sabbath afternoon look at nature. 



Saturday, March 10, 2018

Already March 2018

Since Lori was away, Glenda filled in for SS.  Was so nice to have the mission story from Puerto Rico and the hymn later in the program, which was sung with a you tube video.
The weather was not such that it worked out for us to go outside to enjoy God's nature so we watched a slideshow video of nature photos.
Then had a paper to write out our prayer in response back to God in gratitude for what He has given to us.
After SS group time discussing the way we show gratitude to God for all He gives us we gathered back in the sanctuary for Praise Time, Story Time and the Church Service.
Keith lead in the service and shared songs, stories and Bible readings.  It was a very uplifting time together at OCC.  Thank you all.







Sharing the mission story.  Thank you KS. 
Having a picnic in SS.  ( PC:Shannon G) 

He sure did enjoy this part of SS.  ( PC: Shannon G)



What a great time in SS.  Planting and picking veggies.  Thank you, Bob, for making such nice things for the children. 

Feeding the puppies. 

The crafts are so much fun and look pretty too. 

Adult SS group... thank you for praying for Terry right then.  Sure did appreciate it.   
Children's song at Praise Time.  " His Banner Over Me is Love"  We haven't had this one to sing for a long time. 
Yolanta had this really nice group to lead our Praise Time this Sabbath.  We enjoyed singing many choruses from our red book. Thank you for your leading. 
Millie the Moose -- please stay away from Millie to let her heal and go back to her family.  PC- google. 
Millie the Moose ... PC google... 

Jerrie Lou told us about the moose on the loose in West Kelowna - Millie.  Hopefully Millie found her way back to her home and family by now.



It is so very nice that so many people in our church are willing to take part in the service.  Jim was happy to have the scripture and Edith,  the prayer.  

Her wonderful voice is such a lovely part of the service.  Thank you for sharing, Heidi. 

Each time Joel plays the tambourine or shaker or drum, he is sharing this talents and enriching our service.  Thank you!!

These two taking in all the music. 

Doing her part to join in the singing.  Watching Mummy and Daddy up front. 

It is so so nice to hear her share her talents of singing and playing the piano for the service. 

One more in this musical family - thank you too, Todd. We appreciate your music. 
Keith reading his version of the story...for us to get a deeper look into God's love for us.