We just got back into Whistler from the SFC leaders meeting in Banff. It was a fun time where we got to meet all the cool people from SFC Canada. A lot of stuff went down actually, intense games of table tennis/ping pong, hours spent on rock band, some riding, a bloodbath of a game of water basketball, as well as awesome times of worship, prayer and teaching. A big thank you to Chris Harder who drove us all the way there and back!

So we need a lot of prayer on finding a place to live. Apparently Whistler has been on the news on the shortage of housing and how people have been standing in the village with sandwich boards hanging off them saying how they are desparate for somewhere to live. The seeking accomodation part of the classifieds are about five times the amount of rental listings, and everyone that we call has already rented their place out. We know that this is just going to give more glory to God when he shows us that he has the perfect place for us to start this ministry. But your prayers are greatly needed. We have a couple of kind friends that are going to let us stay on their floor for a few nights, but we dont want to outstay our welcome, or be a hassle to them.

Jonny

Future in Flowers

Hey everyone! Just wanted to say thank you for all your support and your prayers. God has been hookin it up here for sure. Last Sunday we went to two church services. The first one was Whistler Community Church, this place was rad subatical. Tim, the Pasteur at said church, preached on Grace it was awesome. After the service we started talking to people and introducing ourselves, and once again God hooked it up. We meet some people that we had been talking to and texting before we got there, and for some reason they were pretty stoked about meeting us. So we went back to there place and we cooked a bunch of pizzas and just hung out. Later that night went over to Church On the Mountain, this was probably my favorite of the two. We also met some cool people here who were trying to give us advise on where and how to find a place. By the way every time we meet someone and we tell them we are looking a place the first thing they say is," good luck, it's so hard." So if you want to keep praying for that as well that would be neat!

This weekend we are headed to the SFC leadership conference in Banff. We are really looking forward to it, meeting everyone from sfc Canada that is, so hopefully they can make fun about the pics coming from Joshy. Well I'm sick of typing now so we'll talk later.
Seth

So we are up in Whistler now. God hooked us up with a place to crash for a week! Its right in Whistler village and its a perfect base to sort out a place to live. I found out that they have an Esquires coffee shop here in the village.. The same one that i worked back in England! I went in there and the owner seemed really excited when i asked for a job. I think his exact words were "Esquires in England eh? You do latte art? You want to start tommorrow?" So God needs some big praises for that.

Everyone that we have talked to here has told us that its really hard to find a place to live, So we need a lot of prayer. We realise that we really cant do this without God, and are excited about being dependent on him.

Over and oouut.
Jonny

Hey guys, We made it into Canada! It was an awesome journey and we got to be blessed by lots of our friends on the way up. We started by going to Summit County, Colorado and spending time with a load of our friends there. We were able to go to the first SFC meet of the season, which was freaking awesome, worshiping with our family of last year. They prayed for us as they sent us off, which was emotional. Seth started crying like a sissy girl, I kept my cool though, maybe its because i'm english and am too polite to show any emotion. So anyway, we had a little delay getting off because we were told the CV joint on the car wasn't doing too good, which i think means that our wheels would have fallen off. I dont know much about cars by the way. But Seth's stepdad helped us out and put new ones on in just a few hours.

So we finally hit the road and made it to Salt lake city, Utah where we stayed with some good friends from SFC Utah. We had to get the car fixed on Sunday morning because there was a rip in something or other near the wheel joint thing and a dodgy clicking sound when we turned corners. We got on the road eventually, pumped that we were going to be eating a tasty dinner at In-n-Out Burger in little less than 10 hours. We stayed at Zak's pad in Tahoe that night and after a tasty In-n-Out burger for breakfast we made it to Redding California. Staying in Redding was so awesome, we went along to an unofficial video premier of a Christian surfing movie called Walking on Water. When the movie was finished, our trusty friend Tiff Read made a little announcement to the group of rad people from the Bethel School of the Supernatural that we were going up to Whistler to start SFC up there. They all prayed for us and prophesied over us, gave us some amazing words that were so relevant. We met this guy called Ross who was from the Vancouver area and he revealed to us that he's been praying for some people to go to Whistler for quite some time. That evening was a massive encouragement that was really needed.

We drove (well i say we, but as i dont have my licence, i mean Seth) from Redding all the way up to Bellingham, Washington. We drove for 13 hours straight in the rain and stayed with our friend from Ywam The Rev. Michael J Fitz. He is called the reverend because he became a pastor on the internet. A pretty rad guy. We hung out the next day and had dinner with our other friends from Ywam, Adam and Christina. They live just a stones throw from Fitz, and are really cool.

Today we left bellingham and made it across the border. It was pretty intense, The immigration guy grilled us with questions and although he seemed to like me, he really did not like seth. Seth is allowed to stay in Canada until Feburary 12th and if he doesnt leave, they put a warrant out for his arrest. So pray for that situation.

I'll keep you guys updated on our housing situation in about a week. I love all of you, you are cool.
Jonny