Tuesday, August 19, 2008

San Diego Visitors

The Total Church North America Conference was held in San Diego last week, and our church, Kaleo, helped to organize it and host church leaders who were flying in from out of town. Dan and I had the privilege of hosting Murray McLellan and Sammy Whitehawk from Grace Fellowship of Saskatoon, which is in Saskatchewan, Canada. Since we weren't able to attend the conference, it was nice to be able to discuss the session topics with Murray and Sammy at the end of each day. And Dan actually had someone around the house who could talk hockey trivia with him! We also introduced them to one of our favorite foods - the Chipotle burrito! They only have one fast food place like Taco Bell in Saskatoon, so it was definitely a step up in quality, despite not being quite "authentic."

Midway through the week, we got an e-mail from Dan's cousin, Jon, saying that he was in Los Angeles for a missions conference. So we got to meet him and his pastor, Shane, for dinner on Sunday afternoon after church.

It was really fun to have visitors in San Diego! Keep it up! :)


We went to a Padres game with Murray, Sammy, and Michael from Grace Fellowship of Saskatoon, and Fox, who attends Kaleo with us.
Eating dinner with Jon and Shane.

3 comments:

Julie Cortens said...

Hi Debbie,
Thanks for hosting our guys in you great city. Sounds like they had a fabulous time and we are looking forward to hearing all about what God has taught them.
I am Sammy's future Mom-in-law.
Blessings to you both!
Julie

gibsonfam said...

Thanks for hanging out with Jon! I'm so glad you got a chance to meet up last week. I only wish I could have been there. Someday we'll be out to San Diego as a couple!

archshrk said...

That's awesome! I'm glad you were able to help out by hosting and of course showing the Canadians real fast food. A treat I'm sure they will never forget. hehe

Julia