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Article: Great-grandpa Charlie's challenge: enough already: mission and motivation should be our focus.
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- Presbyterian Record
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- July 1, 1996
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I read Kathy Cawsey's article on the think-tank in the April Record. Then, I read a copy of the think-tank report. Last night, I had a dream about Great-Grandpa Charlie. This often happens when I feel troubled about the church.
I never knew Great-Grandpa Charlie, but I wish I had. He was an ordained Methodist circuit preacher at the turn of the century. For much of his early ministry, he wandered up and down the rugged coastline of British Columbia taking the Church of Jesus Christ to isolated logging, mining and fishing camps and to bands of Native Peoples dotting the coastline.
The treacherous Pacific Ocean provided his only method of travel. The ...