Back to the Future
We’re getting ready to go home to Ontario. Everyone thinks we are crazy, what with the record snowfall in the Hamilton area this winter, and I guess we are crazy – about our kids and grandkids.
Besides that, though, we feel our purpose for coming here in the first place has been fulfilled and that to stay on would be like marching in place – energy expended but going nowhere!
We are not just going back to our old lifestyle, to the way things were. We will still be associated with Impact nations, and going on missions from time to time – just from a different home base.
Besides that, we believe that there is something new for us there. First of all, we may not even be able to move into our own home right away. Secondly, we have had a growing conviction that we will find like-minded people back there who share our desire to follow Jesus from adventure to adventure in close fellowship with one another, as we’ve been blessed to have found here.
“Grace”, Reid Harbor, San Juan Islands, 2007
We will miss our dear friends here and the beauty of the west coast. Before we go, though, we are planning to move onto the boat in June and take a long sailing vacation up the BC coast, perhaps to Desolation Sound and environs. In an ideal world, we will be able to keep our boat here and come back for a sailing vacation each summer. We’ll see . . .
Ahhh…Sylvia, I am so glad you get to be reunited with your precious family and get to discover a new adventure with the Lord and with Uncle B. The Lord has revealed His pleasure and delight over you….and I think your time in vancouver proved the Lord was delighting over you, too. Tim and I will never be the same because of the love and silliness you poured into us while you were in BC…we will never go back to the life before Bob and Sylvia…you are irreplaceable ministers of the Father’s Heart, transforming lives around you in Jesus Name…WHEREVER you go!
I am just horribly disappointed that we didn’t get to go on that boat trip we’d planned before! I am so jealous of your upcoming sail….I love you, friend….and don’t stop writing even though your grandkids will take a lot of your time! 
B
It’s true that Father has enriched us in our new Vancouver friends, especially you and Tim. And now Heidi and Kate are helping to fill the big hole you guys left. God is good!
However, I must take exception to your referral to our pouring silliness into you. I thought you and Tim were the ever-flowing fount of silliness! As for boat trips, perhaps that’s yet to come. Love you lots, Sylvia.