Weekly Letter from Ron & Mary Kernohan

July 31, 2026

GREETINGS TO ALL!

As we travel on into Joseph’s life in these coming weeks, we gain fresh perspectives from Pastor’s Ron’s Bible talks, most notably from the experiences Joseph had with Potiphar. May you find much to encourage you in your walk with the Lord as you review the information that is shared each Sunday morning.

 As you read through this week’s newsletter, may you look for more ways that you can work with the Lord in both prayer for and service in our unique 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 will resume in September. Although we will be taking a break during these summer months of July and August, please look for our Fitness with Friends Facebook page for ideas to try at home or outside to maintain your fitness lifestyle. Keep in mind the Five Fingers of Fitness: a supportive mindset, sustainable nourishment, dedicated training, consistent rest, recovery, and relaxation, and prudent 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

In the coming weeks, as we look at the life of Joseph, we are taken into a period of history that is both familiar and strange: familiar, because many of us have read and studied this account for years; strange, because Joseph’s life was so vastly different from our own. Yet the themes remain timeless. How do we apply these lessons to our day-to-day lives? Those questions take on immediate concern when life hits us with staggering unfairness.

Each chapter of Joseph’s story challenges us to go before the Lord with a raw question: “Lord, how do I live with...?”—and we fill in the blank with our own burden. I often chat with young people at the gym where I train, and one of the most heart-wrenching refrains I hear is, “...and it was just so unfair!” Rather than offering a glib response like, “Well, life isn’t fair. The only place you’ll find ‘fair’ is in the dictionary,” I try to press in both agreement and a question: “Yes, you’re right, it was unfair. But how can we carry that together? How can we grow through it?” That is a tough question to puzzle through, whether with teenagers or twenty-somethings.

Over time, we come to realize that time doesn’t automatically heal all wounds—it teaches us how to live with them. A powerful thought that came to me from Pastor Ron’s recent message was this “Don’t be surprised when injustice appears. Instead, give it to God right then, and let Him take care of it.” In recent months, as I’ve navigated my own share of unexpected challenges and injustices, surrendering them to the Lord hasn't instantly erased the pain. But it has given me the deep encouragement that my struggles are neither unseen nor unfelt by Him. God sees, and God feels it with me.

Joseph had no idea what lay ahead in his future, but he anchored himself in the Lord of heaven and earth—the righteous Judge who always does what is right. That is where I choose to stand today, even when everything around me feels unfair May our time in Joseph’s story strengthen that very same foundation of trust within each of us. God sees, and God feels it with…us.

Paul Miller

…for Ron Kernohan, pastor of seniors.