Grey Cup '24!  Day 1 - Vancouver

Dear Friends - Day 1 of the Grey Cup mission was very fruitful.  There are six of us laboring for the 4 days.  One group was comprised of Ernie & his wife Ingrid, they live in Chiliwack, Canada about 90 minutes from Vancouver, and me.  The other team was Andy Schmelzer, Mason Goodknight and Gerry Collins.


We labored for 7 hours at the Grey Cup Festival.


Our location was here:  Canada Place Way. This was one end of the Grey Cup Festival activities held on Canada Place Way.  The festivities were a street festival replete with zip line, concerts and vendors.

Here's a view of the street Festival

Ernie, Ingrid and I worked our corner for 7 hours.  Several good conversations. Lots of affirmation from Christians.


One Pastor from the the First Nations, which is a word for Indians in Canada, stopped to listen for about 15 minutes.  He said he had never seen open air preaching before and was excited about it. 


Here's a couple of videos of Ernie.  The videos show him preaching at different times during the day.

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