In the beginning....

Hey Everybody

This is Infuse 2, Medicine Hat, checking in to inform everyone about our recent progress as a team and as a ministry. We left Ottawa, Ontario at seven o’clock on Sunday, October 2nd. It was a pleasant four hour flight on which Joel and I finished a four hour game of monopoly(I won), and Kyle and I watched “Inception”. Lauren experienced her first flight in a plane, and we spent twenty minutes in the middle of the flight with our seat belts fastened on account of “severe turbulence”. Needless to say, it was an interesting flight. We arrived in Calgary around a quarter after nine, also October 2nd. For all those out there as confused as I was about a flight that took us four hours to fly, but which we landed two hours after we took off, I just want to clarify that the time difference between Ottawa and Calgary is two hours and that, yes, it is possible.

We spent our first Albertan night in Calgary, and drove to Medicine Hat the following morning where we received a tour of one of our parishes, Holy Family Parish. We were hosted by one of our contact persons who had agreed to host the whole team. It was a great experience to be able to be together as a team, especially during our first week here. We’ve spent most of the first week here settling in. We’ve had tours of the city, and we had a tour of Saint Patricks parish, which is the other parish we will be ministering to over the next eight months. We've managed to rearrange our office at Holy Family in order to better accommodate eight people. There’s also a lot of other rooms around our office (ei. conference rooms, staff rooms) which the staff here at Holy Family has been very gracious in letting us use whenever we’ve had a need.

Random Interesting really cool fact, One of our parishes is a consolidation of three parishes, St. Joseph Parish, Christ the King Parish, and St. Mary's Parish. They consecrated it as Holy Family Parish for this reason. How awesome is that?

On Saturday and Sunday we went to all the masses at Holy Family Parish, and introduced ourselves and explained NET a little bit, the we hung out in the foyer and talked to people after the masses. So we've gotten to know a little bit more about the community at Holy Family Parish. Next weekend we'll be doing the same thing at St. Patricks parish, and then we'll be fully integrated into Medicine Hat.

We've finished planning for our high school youth night, which will be at Holy Family, and our junior high youth night which alternate between St. Patricks and Holy Family so that each parish has two youth nights per month. We're planning to start visiting the schools next week and that's when we'll be starting our youth groups.

So, please, keep us in your prayers.

God Bless

Isaac Sullivan

p.s. To love God is something greater than to know him. -- St. Thomas Aquinas