Off to Alberta!

After not exhorting anywhere for two and a half months I am excited to go serve God's people again by filling a pulpit. On Saturday I will be flying into Edmonton, Alberta, Canada to exhort at the Parkland URC in Ponoka and also in Lacombe on January 31 and February 7. This church has recently (on January 3) started a daughter church plant in Lacombe which I will be exhorting at in the mornings, and at the Ponoka mother church in the afternoon.

I am looking forward to traveling again, and haven't flown in quite a while considering how much I did a few months ago. I don't have much planned except to try and stay warm and get to know the people up there as best I can in the short period of time.

Flights

Well, my calendar only has one more engagement scheduled and that is on October 25 at Emmanuel URC in Hanford, CA. We are going to drive up there for a little mini-road trip so at least for the time my flying around the country has come to a close. As I have mentioned before I really do enjoy flying, but flying someplace every week for five weeks was a little too much.

Since June of 2009, and including my vacation to Maine (flying into Providence, RI) I have flown a lot!! There is a web-site called Flight Aware that plots out the flights of pretty much any flight (at least in the US and Canada). These plots can be transferred over to Google Earth which also includes altitude data. So here are some images concerning the actual flights that I have taken this summer up to my flight home from Regina, SK, Canada. The only flight whose plot is missing is my flight from Regina to Calgary. For some reason the only part that got "recorded" was on approach just west of Calgary. Oh well.

Here is an overview of all the flights:


Here is an oblique view of the flights looking roughly north from San Diego:


Finally, here are all the approaches and landings out of and into San Diego. Obviously there are a few data points which have the altitude messed up so ignore those "triangles"!

And so it begins...

This morning I sent in the bulletin information for the first church I will be visiting over the next five weeks, which means my travels across the West will commence shortly. I am really looking forward to the travel and also that Michelle will be traveling with me for two of the four trips, which will be really nice.

For those that are interested here is where I am going to be for the next five Lord's Days:

September
13 - Trinity URC, Walnut Creek, CA
20 - Calvary URC, Loveland, CO
27 - Lynden URC, Lynden, WA

October
4 & 11 - Grace Presbyterian Church, Regina, SK, Canada

So keep us in your prayers as we travel!