The Bartel family invited us to hold the mountain portion of the School
of Discipleship in their Rundle Mountain Hotel & Gasthaus. They
have been excellent hosts.
Click this picture for a look at their hotel... and our home for most of the 1st term.
For some stunning mountain images by local wildlife and landscape photographer John Marriott, click this photograph to go to his web site.
If you visited the web sites above you know how beautiful backdrop this is for us at the School of Discipleship. It is appropriate that we explore a wondrous God in this setting. |
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| One afternoon we all took a hike up to Johnston canyon. The day was spectacular. |
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| Mealtimes have not only been delicious but often entertaining as well. One of the more unsettling aspects of this photograph below is that it wasn't one of the students but rather a staff person known for his quiet Godly maturity. We're pretty sure there is a perfectly good explanation. |
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| Meanwhile, some excellent care, friendship, prayer and counsel happens in the classroom, hallways and just Wherever. |
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Randy Friessen from Youth Mission International has been for us an impactful speaker. God always seems to show up. |
 
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| Community life is quite rich and full in Canmore. And quite colorful. |
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| Some of the best study happens in some of the most unlikely places. |
| Below, Craig Ginn (instructor in church history) relaxes with his wife Carla, reading some of his favorite stuff. Historians are a strange bunch. |
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| Our "proper" portraits and moments so easily
degenerate into pandemonium. Life is allot like that. |
