B.C. Mission Boat

This is the boat chartered by the B.C. Mission Boat Society. It is a 46ft boat. With Sleeping and living accommodations for 9 people. It was powered by two John Deere Diesel Marine Engines. We slept on this boat 4 nights and VBS on it one day.
Some of the beautiful Scenery at Hopetown, B.C.
Me driving the boat. Actually it had GPS, Radar and Auto-Pilot
The Government Dock at Kingcome Inlet

Here is the B.C. Mission Boat in Port Hardy, B.C. A six member team made up the crew for the week of August 9-16. Four of us from Outlook. Two from B.C. plus our Captain who owned the boat. What a great week of sharing the gospel with first nations kids and fellowshipping with some wonderful First-nations Christians.

Israel

Above - Ruins of Simon Peter's house in Capernaum
Above the Sea of Galilee
We had a boat ride and a communion service on the Sea of Galilee
Our Group on the Boat
Ruins of the Synagogue in Capernaum where Jesus would have preached

Petra and the Jordan River

Above is the Treasury at Petra Jordan. It was a tomb for a Nabatean King
Above Sherryl and I at an ancient Church from the 6th century that has been recently excavated. There were beautiful mosaics on the floor.
Here I am getting water from the Jordan River. This is believed to be near the site where Jesus was Baptized. It is also close to where the Israelites crossed into Israel and where Elijah was taken up in a fiery chariot. When I was here it struck me, isn't it like our Lord Jesus to be baptized at the lowest place on the earth, fully identifying with us. I brought some water home and we have used it for two baptisms in our Church. I'm saving some for our first grandchild who will be born in October.
Sherryl and I at Bethany beyond the Jordan
There are literally acres of Green houses along the Jordan river

Wadi Rum in Jordan

Above is a picture of a Tourist Camp run by the Bedouin in Wadi Rum, Jordan. You can stay in these Canadian made tents for $10.00 a night.
Sherryl and I in back of Toyota pickup going for a ride through Wadi Rum
Some of the beautiful landscape where Lawrence of Arabia was filmed
Camel Crossing
Having Lunch at a Bedouin Encampment

Climbing Mount Sinai

Steps up Mt. Sinai
We left at 2AM and rode camels until it was too rugged for them
The Burning Bush - Monastery

At the Suez Canal - Egypts main source of Income
Here I am at the top of Mt. Sinai after a 8km camel ride and hike
Sherryl with a lady from Indonesia at the Top of Sinai
A Chapel at the top of Mt. Sinai - People huddled together and Prayed - It was cool.
Sunrise from the top of Mt. Sinai at about 5AM

In Cairo

Here are pictures of Mohammed Ali Mosque in Cairo
The picture below is at the Coptic Orthodox Church built over the home where Mary and Joseph and Jesus stayed when they fled into Egypt from Herod.
This Sign marks the entrance to the home of the Holy Family

We visited a Papyrus shop where they showed us how they make papyrus. Papyrus was used like paper and some of the Bible manuscripts were written on Papyrus
Here you see the mixture of traffic in Cairo. Cairo is an amazing city of 17 million people and it has no traffic lights. Traffic moves smoothly and we saw no accidents or major traffic jams.
Below is the Pyramid of Sakkora south of Cairo

Our Trip to Bible Lands

On March 25th, 2008, Sherryl and I flew from Saskatoon to Toronto where we met up with 30 other Canadians for an 18 day Pilgrimage to Egypt, Jordan and Israel. Here are all 32 of us Canadians in front of the Sphinx and the Pyramids. Most of our group was from Calgary and Cochrane.

Here I am standing on the Pyramid at Giza. The Pyramids are on the edge of Cairo.

This was the view from our hotel window of one of the Pyramids.

And a picture of us on the other side of them.

My Second Set of Kolbeinsvik Great Great Grandparents

Marthe Vincentsdatter Kvalvaag 1851-1930 and Knud Baarsen Kolbeinsvik 1848-1914

Knut Baardsen Kolbeinsvik 1848-1914

Knut Baardsen Kolbeinsvik was born November 25, 1848 on the Kolbeinsvik farm on Huftarøy, in Austevoll, Hordaland, Norway. He was the tenth of eleven children born to Baar Knudsen Kolbeinsvik and Marthe Jacobsdatter Haevroen. He grew up on the farm Trollholmen, a part of Kolbeinsvik. He worked as a fisherman and farm helper on the home farm. He met Marthe Vincentsdatter kvalvaag in his visits to the supply store on Kvalvaag, where she was working. This supply and service center belonged to the Rosendahl family. In April 1873 the two of them travelled from Bergen through Quebec to Iowa. In July of 1873 they were married in Iowa River Lutheran Church, near Dorchester, Alamakee County, Iowa. Their first child Dorthea did not survive and is buried in Iowa. They had six more girls. a) Martha Dorthea 1875b) Gjertrud Olina 1878c) Brita Maria 1880d) Marie Josephine 1883e) Bertina 1886f) Anna Wilhelmina 1889They must have moved close to Ridgeway, Winnesheik County as Martha and Gjertrud were baptized in Lincoln Lutheran. The family moved to North Dakota after Gjertrud was born. They settled at DeLamere, North Dakota and farmed there the rest of their lives. They were active in the Lutheran Churches of Sargent county and were charter members of Immanuel Lutheran, DeLamere, in the early 1880's The children were baptized, confirmed and married in this community. Knud died enroute to his daughter Anna's funeral on March 23,1914. He is buried in the Lutheran Cemetery in DeLamere.