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A Heavenly Taste – Part 2 (of 2)

October 5, 2010 — 1 Comment

To finish up with my mandatory Montreal to-do list, here is another favourite, which is truly heavenly!

Biscotti from Heavenly Taste (East-end, RDP).

Heavenly Taste

Having stopped there on our way to church, Mima shared her heart with us as we feasted on her biscotti which she graciously blessed us with.

biscotti

Mima is one of my friends from Emmanuel Church. Her desire is to serve the Lord and do what He tells her to do. Believe it or not, Heavenly Taste is only a small part of what she believe He wants her to do. Giving all glory to God, she was telling us that her business is flourishing and expanding because of what God is doing.

Mima

So what is God doing? Mima has a dream of helping the poor and meeting the needs of those who are less fortunate. She didn’t know how this would come to pass until one day she had an idea of a cookie recipe. She began making these biscotti and people loved them to the point where people at her workplace were asking for orders. When the demand became too much, she decided it was time to do this fulltime. She has never looked back since, and today she is beginning to see how this God-given idea is giving her the means to bless others.

Deuteronomy 8:18 says, “But remember the LORD your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth, and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your forefathers, as it is today.”

What’s more, using her front counter as a pulpit to preach from, Mima said she has led some clients and friends to Christ through her testimony of a Heavenly Taste. What a great testimony of God’s greatness and power.

As her business prospers, she is aiming to use it towards blessing the needy.

As you read the Bible, it is inevitable to notice that we serve a super-creative God! Whether it is the sunrise, the creation, or even a cookie, God’s creative nature is in us through the inspiration of His Holy Spirit. Let’s allow him to use us for His glory.

What ideas have you been holding on to in the recesses of your mind and heart? Maybe it’s time you trust God and step out and act on it.

Do you have a “success” story? I’d love for you to comment and share about it. Testify!

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A Dream Come True

June 20, 2010 — Leave a comment

Dreams! For me, dreams are difficult to explain. Sometimes, i feel like the whole point of dreaming is to envision things that are unattainable. And then there are those few special moments in life when you witness, before your very eyes, dreams becoming a reality.

A few of my “dream-come-true” moments:

  • Getting a BMX when I was 5yrs old
  • Playing drums and touring the east-coast with Paul Rogers + Band.
  • Honoring my mother @ her funeral
  • Hosting concerts for Reuben Morgan (Oct 2005 – Montreal),
  • Starfield (Sept 2007 – Montreal), and Paul Baloche (May 2009 – Brantford)

  • Getting married to the girl of my dreams (follow her)
  • Being in full-time ministry and allowing God to use my family to love people.

This past Friday, another one of those “dream-come-true” moments occurred.
…Enter the LOT PARTY:

September 26, 2009 was our first attempt at an annual (Parking) Lot Party. It was obvious that we were going to learn a lot from this pilot project. What we were envisioning was a FREE outdoor party for all High School students from Brantford and the surrounding areas. We wanted to have inflatable games, a dunk tank, pizza, pop, and an amazing concert.

I know what you’re thinking: That’s all fine and dandy, but would there be a catch to this “FREE” event held in a church parking lot? Would there be this typical bait and switch kind of thing where everybody comes for an advertised party and then in a magical twist, we make them feel like sinners and then invite them to get “saved”? The answer was and still is: NO!

Well, September 26, 2009 proved to be a rainy and cold day. We moved the party inside. We canceled the dunk tank. There were 2 high school deaths the night before. the youth from my own church said the concert was too loud, and so they hung out in the main foyer. the total attendance didn’t exceed 100.

I wasn’t left with much of a dream after the “launch” of our Lot Party except that the bands we hired rocked and that the Lot Part could only go UP (in other words, it couldn’t get worse).

Fast forward to 2010:

  • January: We have a meeting and decide to give the Lot Party another try and move the date up to June 18, 2010
  • February: Valentine’s Bake Sale “Show Some Sweet Love”
  • March: St Patrick’s Day Bake Sale
  • April: Easter Bake Sale // Modesty Fashion Show
  • May: Family Movie Night // Car Wash

That’s a load of fundraisers … all in the span of a few months (February-May).

This past Friday, I realized that God can resurrect some of those dreams that we were ready to bury and abandon. With a few short sentences and pics, I’ll try to sum it all up:

the weather was a perfect 27˚C with barely any clouds in the sky.

the inflatable games were a huge success.

The volunteers were amazing and served BBQ Hot Dogs, pop, popcorn, and cotton candy.

The stage was set for a rocking concert with Manafest (twitter).

After all this was finished, i got up on the stage and stated the purpose for our Lot Party: “We love Brantford and we love you (our community)”.

What dreams have you been putting off? Maybe it’s the right time for you to revisit some of them.

(***if you have any comments about this post or suggestions for our Lot Party, please send them my way)

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