I have been meaning to write about this happy occasion for quite some time, but somehow other things interfered. I got busy. The usual excuses. But it gives me great joy to remember this night.
The picture shows me and some dear Christian folks, some I had just met. at a dinner at LaPointe's Seafood Restaurant in November with representatives of Alpha Canada who wanted to meet me because of this story based on an interview with Quebec Archbishop Gerald Cyprien Lacroix.
Wanda Ho, second from the left, works for Alpha Canada out of Vancouver in getting Chinese Christian churches involved in using this wonderful program to bring people to know Jesus as Lord and Savior. She had read the article and emailed it to Tony Copple, who is extremely active in Alpha as a trainer, organizer and prison-Alpha ministry guy here in Ottawa, and also my financial advisor and a long time friend. Tony is across from me, fourth from the left. Wanda was planning a trip to Ottawa to meet with Chinese churches here, so Tony suggested we all meet. With Wanda, next to Tony is her prayer partner and friend Rita Fung, who ended up treating us all to dinner. Monica and Keith Brown are the couple in the foreground, who are both active in Alpha in the National Capital Region.
How I loved being with them! The love of Christ, the joy in their faith, the passion for sharing the Good News! Interestingly, they told me someone from Alpha had met that afternoon with Archbishop Lacroix, who is already running Alpha in his diocese.
We all agreed there was something powerful in what the Archbishop said in the interview about not "mellowing down" the Gospel. After the installation of the new Archbishop of Gatineau, Archbishop Lacroix spoke with me about the response he has had from across North America and even Mexico to the interview.
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