Weekly Letter from Ron & Mary Kernohan

August 7, 2026

GREETINGS TO ALL!

Throughout this month, with many people travelling, continue to uphold each other not only in prayers of protection, but prayers for encouragement or experiencing wonderful moments of discovery. Then, when we all gather around those tables of fellowship, may we have great stories to tell about ways that we saw God at work. 

As we journey through this week, and look through the information in this newsletter, may you be inspired to find ways to encourage each other, to build each other up, and keep on creating a great community.

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WEEKLY and UPCOMING ACTIVITIES

DISCOVERY CLASS will be on Sunday at 9:30 am in the church gym.

FITNESS WITH FRIENDS is scheduled to resume in early September. There is a Fitness with Friends Facebook page that is being prepared to give our fitness community ongoing ideas to try at home or outside to develop and maintain a fitness lifestyle. Continue to remind yourself of the five foundational principles or the Five Fingers of Fitness: supportive information to develop a good mindset, choosing good food such as protein and vegetables at each meal, setting aside time for resistance training, being sure to get good rest, recovery, and relaxation, and incorporating excellent supplementation.

Remember that Fitness with Friends will not be held if there are weather advisories in effect…and in Calgary, there can be all kinds of interesting weather challenges! So, in the event of such advisories, please stay home and enjoy your at-home workouts. (Some of you … know… what to do!)  : - )

Fitness with Friends will not be held if:

1) If there is a weather advisory in effect, or

2) If the temperature falls to, or goes below, -20C (and some long-time Calgarians can tell you some weather stories to curl your hair!)

For either of these two conditions, please stay home and enjoy your at-home workouts.

PICKLEBALL is held on Thursdays starting at 9:00 am, and all ages are welcome.

No ENCORE or Women’s Prayer and Share in the summer

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PRAYER REQUESTS‍ ‍

● Remember to pray for those who are battling illness and bereavement and other hardships.

● Pray for Paul Miller as he recovers from his injury.

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ALBERTA PIONEER CAMP is having a 75th year celebration on Sat. Sept 19, 2026.  Some of you may have been supporters of this ministry, as Lee Workun was. 

To register, go to https://www.pioneercampalberta.ca/events-reunions.  

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Meditation

The months of July and August have been dedicated to the favourite hymns that our Seniors’ Bible Class enjoys. An overarching theme throughout all of this is a profound sense of gratitude for the salvation we have been given through the finished work of Jesus on the Cross. Again and again, I hear conversations that have the element of “gratitude” woven throughout. This week I was struck by numerous people who told me about things that should inspire gratitude. Here is a list that is based on a series of questions to which the response is…” and I’m so grateful!”

This list was inspired by a friend who was a doctor. Over the years of his practice, he often guided people to take the time to be grateful. It was important for them to speak words of gratitude because it helped them weather the various health struggles they were enduring. Those who were grateful about life seemed to have a better quality of life than those who were less grateful, not necessarily complaining, but simply…less grateful. Here are some of the questions he asked and some of my own that I also shared with him:

1.      Are all your senses working? Mine are, and I’m so grateful!

2.      Do your fingers and toes move with little pain? Yes, they do, and I’m so grateful!

3.      Did you get out your own bed? I did, and I’m so grateful!

4.      Do you have a roof over your head? I do, and I’m so grateful!

5.      Is there a food in your cupboards and refrigerator? There is in mine, and I’m so grateful

6.      Were you able to get clean water from the tap? I could, and I’m so grateful!

7.      Are you able to walk around your neighbourhood…safely? I am, and I’m so grateful!

8.      Is there money in your pocket, and can you get more if you need it? Yes! I’m so grateful!

9.      Do you have people you love who you can meet frequently? I do, and I’m so grateful!

10.  Do you have a Bible to read? Yes, I do, and I’m so grateful!

As we sing these favourite hymns, may we remember, and be grateful for,  the very salvation that gives us hearts that even want to sing these hymns. Having said that, take the time to find a hymnal, look through it and find those hymns that are precious to you, and give thanks for three things: the person who wrote the words, the person who created the music, and the people who thought that this song ought to be put into a hymnbook! One hymn in particular—“I am so glad that Jesus loves me…Jesus loves even…me!”

Paul Miller

…for Ron Kernohan, pastor of seniors.