Faith&Friends
GOD IN MY LIFE
For the Birds Our mission: rescue 250 airborne evaders in five hours. by Richard Smith
Fine-Feathered Friends Richard Smith and his niece, Amanda
H
ave you ever had a budgie or cockatiel escape from its cage and tried to catch the avian escapee as it flew from perch to perch, just out of your reach? Imagine, then, trying to catch hundreds of birds with nothing more than a butterfly net. And they all have to be retrieved by sundown. This was the situation my niece, Amanda, and I found ourselves in recently.
“I’ll Help” It all started one evening when I was attending an Alpha session (alpha.org) at The Salvation Army’s Belleville Community Church in Ontario. These weekly introduction to Christianity meetings were something my wife, Beth, Amanda and I looked forward to. Not only had our group grown closer as friends but we had also become stronger Christians. For
faithandfriends.ca I MARCH 2020
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