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Author:	Terry Dyck	Created:	4/25/2008 2:51 PM
My Thoughts

I have a question...

By Terry Dyck on 6/12/2009 9:22 AM

I love asking questions. I think of questions while I am reading a book or listening to someone, or watching a movie…in fact family members have said to me (probably on more than one occasion), “…dad, just watch the movie, don’t analyze everything…” But I like to ask what the director is trying to portray, what are the surface messages, what are the deeper messages, what are they really saying, what is the product placement, who are they speaking to, ….you get the picture?

Did you ever consider how many questions Jesus asked? Or how many times Jesus answered a question with a question? And I thought we weren’t supposed to do that. Or how many questions Jesus left unanswered? Read through the Gospels sometime and note his questions and responses to questions, it will be a great study for you.

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Terry's Thoughts

By Terry Dyck on 5/12/2009 2:40 PM

I sure hope BC residents are going to vote today. I am watching people drive up to the church to participate in our provincial election. I know there are a million excuses not to, but do it. There’s nobody to harass you – in fact when I rode my bike up to the polling station I was greeted in a friendly way & they even watched over my bike while I went to the appointed station. This is a far cry from many places around the globe that struggle during elections. I was thinking; this is Bike to Work Week, perhaps we should have had Bike to Vote, I don’t know whether that would help or hurt the process. I like to choose, and this is one way, actually two choices at this pole, to engage in the process. There are so few things that are under our control, even though we’d like to believe we can control people, and stuff, and events,…I think we even try to control God (in subtle ways) occasionally. We’ve been given the power to choose, there’s a spiritual les Read More »

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Spring Projects

By Terry Dyck on 4/8/2009 7:58 AM

Spring Projects – it seems to me that we have a good opportunity to add some upgrades to our facility and extend the life of a well used campus. By putting a sports floor on the concrete gym floor we add safety, usability, aesthetics, and bring new life to an area of the church that is used by many different groups. Anyone who has stayed over at MCA for an allnighter, or is involved with children or youth ministry knows the value of having a shower in the facility, for emergency or hygienic purposes – I know one shower doesn’t service a large group, but it does better equip us on site. Many groups and people use our Mission Creek Room regularly. It is probably the most used room in the facility both for MCA ministry activities and groups from the community. We’ll have to figure out what the best option for floor covering in that room will be, but certainly we have to consider things like

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Turkey Bowl

By Terry Dyck on 10/18/2008 1:39 PM

Isn’t it frustrating when you’d like to contribute and participate in something you really enjoy, and instead you are relegated to being a spectator? Yes, that was my experience this past week. One of the fun events we do – the Turkey Bowl – an annual touch football game pitting marrieds vs. singles was held on Thanksgiving Monday. To actively participate in some healthy exercise and fun loving banter marks the occasion. Many of the years we have held this event the married guys have taken it to the singles, however in recent years the games have been much more competitive and the single have even won a couple times (even if at least one time it is highly disputed). This year the world was all set right – the marrieds won!

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Play Hard

By Terry Dyck on 7/28/2008 8:27 AM

There are some events or activities that bring out the true nature and character of your family. In our family, some of the games we play tends to bring out the competitive spirit amoungst our family members. A simple game of croquet in the back yard can bring out passions and intensity not seen all the time. And besides, it’s fun! It doesn’t take complicated plans, devised, or manufactured occasions to get a glimpse of a person’s heart. When we simplify some of our activities it can become more about the people and less stress about the activity. It becomes easier to invite others along with us, and include someone else.

I know in our yard, if someone whines too much, you become a target. Your croquet ball may just get knocked down the hill into the nei Read More »

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Aluminum Grabbers

By Terry Dyck on 7/4/2008 10:58 AM

This last week I spent some time on our adopted piece of the Mission Creek Greenway (between Ziprick & Gerstmar). The city supplied “kits” to help with the task. Amongst the items in the kit were aluminum grabbers. They have a handle on one end, with a trigger and on the other end of a 2 foot extension are two small spring loaded suction cup devices mounted on finger like appendages. You pull the trigger, the little suction cups pull together to grasp stuff. In this case its garbage I was grasping. I have seen similar devices in the hospital to use when you have limited mobility and you want to pinch the annoying visitor in your room (that may be my interpretation), As you may have already figured out, I am quite fascinated with this instrument, a small miracle from the engineering world. They were so handy as I trudged through the park, on the path, and off the path. I picked up anything from cigarette butts (shouldn’t they be biodegradable? Obviously, Read More »

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My Baseball Team

By Terry Dyck on 6/18/2008 2:52 PM

The people I play baseball with are a lot of fun. We are kind of a unique mix of people, certainly with different personalities and levels of baseball skill. One of the things I enjoy about these people – they let me play with them! It feels good to be included and even better when you contribute to the teams success (winning, it matters, that is why we keep score). Another thing I appreciate is the mutual desire to encourage each other. And this desire is usually followed up by words of cheer in the field or at bat. Even when you (me) mess up, strike out, muff a throw, send a runner when you shouldn’t,…they are gracious. Those kind of things make us a good team, but it also helps when we are victorious. I like that we cheer for the other team at the end of the game, that we don’t openly mock the opposition, that we go to Dairy Queen and get ice cream. It’s fun to hang out with their kids and be with people in “another” se Read More »

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CARE Group Thoughts

By Terry Dyck on 5/13/2008 2:33 PM

We deliberately call many of our small groups CARE groups, and even made an acrostic out of the word care to describe what we would like to see occur in these groups;

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Taking care to the people…

By Terry Dyck on 4/25/2008 2:51 PM

I am intrigued with this passage in the book of Acts, and the dynamics involved in the early church...

Acts 6:1: In those days when the number of disciples was increasing, the Grecian Jews among them complained against the Hebraic Jews because their widows were being overlooked in the daily distribution of food.

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