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On Sunday we got a chance to hear Abby speak about “Increasing Our Doubt.” Abby has always been unconventional when it comes to the status quo, but that’s why she sees what other people don’t and for that reason she brings a completely different perspective to our pastoral team. In this particular case, Abby talked about increasing our faith through the means of doubt. She shared that it actually takes more faith to believe in God when you have doubts…

When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I gave up childish ways.  For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I have been fully known. – Corinthians 13:11-12 (ESV) We often think of doubt as the enemy of faith. After all, we’re called to believe in…

Do you currently serve at church, or have you served in the church before? What has your journey in serving been like? As I think back on my own journey, I remember first becoming more involved at church through worship ministry. I gained an interest in playing the drums when I was in high school, inspired by a friend of mine. Soon enough, my ability was recognized at church, and I became the main drummer in our youth group. Playing…

Over the weekend, I had the opportunity to listen to Andrew’s sermon: Increase Our Faith. One of the things he mentioned was that we do not need more information to step out in our faith. There are many examples of this in the bible (Andrew mentioned Abram’s travels); I came across one in 1 Samuel 3; when the Lord called Samuel. Samuel was a boy who assisted Eli the priest in the temple of the Lord, given into this service…

Everything we do this year will be surrounded by the theme of Increase Our Faith. When we look at the word church, the word the Scripture uses is Ekklesia; which means the called-out ones. We often associate the church with a place or a building, this understanding often creates the thought that one must GO to church. The idea is that one must move locations to find and be in the presence of God. Here at LifeSpring, we recognize that…

When Ryan shared on Sunday that he and Theresa are considering fostering babies under the age of 1 years old from the hours of 5pm to 9am to provide temporary care, I thought two things: I have an infant under the age of 1 years old and she is at her peak fussiness after 5pm. They are typically cranky and want to sleep but don’t know how yet or at least that has been my experience. So, when Ryan and…

In December, I had an opportunity to have a zoom meet with some of the team at Deliverance Church Rubongi and the Compassion Canada staff. If you were at LifeSpring in the 2010s, you may remember that we took 3-4 mission trips to Uganda during that period. We would visit different cities and churches there, and one of the places that we had an especially good connection with was Rubongi. A big part of this was because of a growing…

Dear LifeSpring Family, Dorothy and I recently finished studying the Book of Esther in our Bible Study Fellowship program. Most of us are familiar with Esther’s declaration, “If I perish, I perish.” However, before making this heroic statement, she took practical steps found in Esther 4:15–16 (ESV): “Then Esther told them to reply to Mordecai, ‘Go, gather all the Jews to be found in Susa, and hold a fast on my behalf, and do not eat or drink for three…

LifeSpring’s purpose for 2026 is Increase Our Faith. A good example of this is in Esther 4, when Queen Esther is asked to plead for the lives of her people. Just before this chapter, an official order had been issued so that–on a certain day–enemies of the Jews could attack and destroy them, taking everything that they owned. Esther had kept her Jewish identity a secret so far, but when she learned about this plot from her cousin, Mordecai, she…

My family and I had the privilege of going to Singapore & Malaysia with the grandparents, and we were able to see our family’s history and how they lived. I saw Nancy’s (my mother-in-law’s) family home and the treacherous journey she would take everyday to get to school. It was a little town, which meant that 50 years ago it was a little village. I asked one of the uncles what they did for fun as kids, and he told…

I was recently updating my resume and was struck by now much I’ve changed and grown in the last few years. My resume was a snapshot and a great reminder of where I was 3-4 years ago while in the process of graduating highschool and being very uncertain about my direction in life. There are days where I don’t feel like I’m growing at all, and sometimes it helps me to take a look back in hindsight to remember how…

As we enter into the first weeks of January, I hope this new year has been off to a good start for you. For many people, the new year feels like a natural time to start things fresh and maybe try something new. Of course, that’s partly because December is a great time to let ourselves go and enjoy, and I hope you had a chance to do that as well over the Christmas season! But this is the time…