Thursday, April 23, 2009

Tour Underway

If you are like me, you will quickly scan this post to see if there is anything of interest. I'll do my best to keep it concise.

As I'm writing this we are staying at our good friend Judy Ford's in Winnipeg.

God has been so good.

Shortly after my last post we participated in the Alberta Home Educators Association Conference in Red Deer, Alberta (April. 17th-19th). It was a really blessed weekend. Dad, Mom, Jesse and Heidi were some of the speakers at there.

Our family did a concert on the Friday night.

Pictures from AHEA Concert:
Photos courtesy of Rueben Kopp and Phillip Payne

Introducing Everyone:
Mom, Emz and Amy singing "Daddies Love Your Little Girls"


Amy on her Ukulele with Dad and Hannah:


Judah singing :)
On Saturday night we went out for Chinese with the Lipp family. Good times.



We came back home for Sunday night and Monday (21st) we left for Regina. We stayed at our good friends, the Durstons, for Monday and Tuesday night. We always have an awesome time fellowshipping with them. We had a concert in Strasbourg, SK on Tuesday night. For some reason it was a really hard concert where it seemed so many things went wrong. Cables popping, etc. But God was working despite our downfalls.

After the concert, a lady approached mom and said she felt the Lord wanted her to give our family her amazing Larivee guitar! We were blown away at her generosity. God is so good.

Mom with Colleen and the amazing guitar she gave us!

We left the Durstons on Wednesday morning and left for Langenburg, SK where we had a concert there that evening. We had it at the Langenburg community hall and it went really well. Afterwards we were all billeted out separate ways. Joel and myself stayed with a young man by the name of Dwight Mehrer. It was a real blessing to hang out with him. He really has a heart for the Lord and we really enjoyed visiting with him. We stayed an extra day in the Langenburg area so we had lots of time to visit. On Thursday, our family went bowling with Dwight and some other friends in the area (Yankes).

Joel and his trademark bowling trip/fall/slide. :)





Judah trying to give the ball enough momentum to make it to the pins:

Thursday evening, Darwin and Cathy MacKenzie took us out for Chinese, which was a real treat.

We left Langenburg on Friday morning and went to Carberry for a concert that evening. We stayed at our good friends place, Will and Carol Feldbusch. Some of us were billeted out to a couple from their church.

Saturday morning we left Carberry and got to Winkler in the afternoon to set up for our concert that evening in Winkler, Manitoba. We had sung there before. Its such a nice place to sing, its a beautiful concert hall that has perfect acoustics. The place was packed out and we really felt the Lord's spirit working in the concert.

Shot from our concert in the Winkler Enns Concert hall:


Well there's a quick run down of the tour thus far!

We have a concert tonight in Winnipeg. As always, your prayers are so appreciated!

In Christ,

Josiah

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

Leaving For Tour Tomorrow

Hey all,

We are leaving for our approximately 8 weeks tour tomorrow. We'll start by going to the AHEA conference and then coming home for Sunday night. Monday morning we'll leave for Saskatchewan.

We are mapped out to go all the way to PEI.

You can see our schedule here:

http://josties.com/schedule.html



I'll plan on updating my blog here fairly regularily. I purchased a wireless rocket stick so that I can have Internet while we are traveling so I can keep up with my business and my blogs.

Once again, we really appreciate all your prayers! It's not always easy being on the road but we know this is what God wants us to be doing now.

Jesse, Heidi and John-Michael are also coming with us. Jon and Sharla will be staying home as they have a lot of other things on the go at home.