The Call
Before the foundation of the world, God had a Dream. A Dream of a family and a home.
God created the earth in all its majesty and wonder and within the earth He laid a jewel of beauty – a garden. And the Lord God took the man and woman that He had created in His very own image and likeness and made the garden their home. And there He rested in intimate fellowship with His family.
Then the enemy came. Through lies, he deceived first Eve, then Adam and by their rebellion, sin was born. With sin came fear and deception and worst of all, separation from the Father.
But none of this changed the Dream. Knowing the end from the beginning, the Lord already had a plan of redemption. First came the Law with its prescriptions to cover the sin and then instructions for a tabernacle, then for a temple. At least in this way, He could dwell closer to His family.
Yet, all of these were just shadows of the ultimate plan. The Father would send His only-begotten Son to earth and Jesus, who being the very nature of God, would empty Himself of all strength and power to become obedient to death on the cross. As the one died for the many, the power of sin and death would be destroyed and Jesus would be laid as the Chief Cornerstone of a new temple while every member of God’s household would be transformed into living stones to be fashioned by the Lord Himself into His holy habitation. Then, as Jesus prayed in John 17, this dwelling place of God, a family united by and filled with divine glory, would become a great light shining in the darkness showing all those who were lost the way home to the Father.
This summer the Father is sending an invitation for a Family Reunion to a representation of His “hidden treasures” in Alberta– faithful believers from different denominations, generations, spheres of influence and regions of the province whose hearts are united in the desire to see God’s Dream fulfilled in the Church of Alberta. In obedience to His call, we will gather in Edmonton, August 18-20, 2011, choosing to lay down our own individual dreams and visions so that corporately we can enter into His presence in worship and waiting on Him. As we do so, we believe He will continue the process of knitting us supernaturally into One Family and revealing to us secrets about the inheritance He has reserved for Alberta for such a time as this.
Since most of the more than 50 people who were attending the Reunion had never met, we began the session introducing ourselves. It was exciting to see people gathered from all over the province – from McLennan and Grande Prairie, right down to Brooks, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge – and many points in between!
As we sought the Lord before the Reunion we sensed that He wanted our very first act together to be to lay down/offer to the Lord all of our expectations about what would happen during these days, so that we could prepare a place for the Holy Spirit to move with complete freedom. In the months preceding the Reunion, there had been many visions, dreams and other revelation being released as we fasted and prayed. The danger of such revelation, however, is that, without being aware, we can start to form expectations of what and how things will happen. Rick shared a great analogy of how the prophetic is like a historical murial. In a murial, all of the significant events of a community or people group are compressed into one representative picture. If you look at that picture and assume that everything took place at the same time, you would have a wrong interpretation. And so it is with the prophetic. Sometimes God shows us things all together, but in reality some things are for now, and some are for later. And we don’t always know which is which. That’s why we need to be willing to offer back to the Lord even the things He reveals to us and give Him the right and freedom to fulfill His purposes in the way and the timing that He desires.
So we felt to take a time of worship, during which we could ask the Lord to highlight to us any expecations we had that He wanted us to lay down. Even in the area of the worhip, the Lord wanted to deal with our expectations. Tabitha Lemaire, a worship leaders from Montreal who has been intimately involved in every step of the journey - including traveing and leading worship during the Awaken Tour - was supposed to be leading worship. And yet the Lord directed us to use a specific prophetic worship CD about surrender. So we obeyed and entered into worship. As the Lord would bring to our minds an expectation we might have, we wrote it down on a slip of paper and placed it on a map of Alberta at the front of the room. When the worship was completed, 4 people from 4 corners of the province each took hold of an end of the map and raised it to heaven as Rick led us in a prayer of releasing our expectations.. Together we declared that there is a company of believers in Alberta willing to give the Lord the full freedom to move in whatever way pleases Him.
On Friday morning, as the core team sought the Lord together before the meeting, we felt there was a cloak of heaviness/weariness/hope deferred on many from the past season. And we sensed the Lord said He wanted to remove that so that He might reposition us for the new season. We weren’t sure exactly how the Lord would do this so we agreed to enter into worship and see how the Lord would lead.
Tabitha brought us into a powerful time of worship as she began to sing spontaneously about the Lord restoring our souls, turning our mourning into dancing and turning our sadness into joy. Together we sang in declaration that we are letting go of the old and not looking back; a new day is dawning. During this worship, the Lord reminded Stephanie of a past experience and as she shared it with the core, there was a witness she was to share it with the whole group.
"A few years ago," Stephainie began, "I woke up one morning and heard the Lord say, “Re-orient yourself towards victory”. And I felt a strong impression that I needed to rearrange the furniture in my bedroom, particularly my bed. For the previous 10 years, my bedroom furniture had been in the exact same position and for good reason. Because of the way the doors, closets and windows are set in my bedroom , there is one logical place for the bed to be!
As I lay there wondering if this idea was the product of an overtired mind, the Lord spoke clearly to me again. “Stephanie,” He said ,” I want you to understand that the season that is coming will be completely different than the last season. I am about to display Myself as the Mighty God in a way that you and much of the Church have never experienced. So the reason I want you to shift around your bedroom is so that every morning the first thing you see is a brand new perspective. That way you will have a constant, daily reminder that nothing is ever going to be the same again.”
A few weeks later, I was spending some time meditating on Joshua and the children of Israel crossing over into the Promised Land. And suddenly the Lord asked me an interesting question: “Stephanie, how different do you think I appeared to a slave in the midst of 400 years of bondage in Egypt versus to the children of Israel who posessed the Promised Land?” After I thought about it for a while, I realized the answer was that He probably appeared vastly different. For the slave in Egypt, who was crying out day and night to God for deliverance, it would be a pretty big stretch to see God as a Mighty God. But not so for a 20-year-old who marched 7 times around Jericho and then saw the walls – big thick chariot-racing-on-top-sized walls - instantly disappear.
Now we know that God really wasn’t different, because He is eternal and His character and nature are unchanging. So it wasn’t that He was “less mighty” when the children of Israel were in bondage than when they were in triumphant victory. He only appeared to be so when viewed through the prism of their experiences.
I think this is a good analogy of where we are at in the Church right now. Theologically we know that God is the Mighty One, the Sovereign King. And yet it seems like our enemy has succeeded to destroy far more often than God has succeeded to deliver. Our hearts echo with the cry of Habakkuk thousands of years ago – Oh Lord, we have heard of your fame, we have heard of your deeds… Yet few of us have experienced the demonstrations of God’s might in our own personal lives or ministries in any tangible or lasting ways.
But, just as the day came when finally the children of Israel passed from a season of desert wandering to a season of victorious possessing, something in our spirits is telling us it’s time now, that His kingdom IS coming and we must prepare ourselves for a dramatic shift. So how then do we re-orient ourselves for victory?
First we need to close the doors of the old season. At a time of transition in my life, I received this picture from the Lord. I saw a huge hallway and on the left there was a line of open doors and on the right was a line of doors that were all firmly shut. And God said to me, “You have to be willing to completely close all the old doors before I can open any of the new doors. Because if you don’t, the enemy will try to run from the old open doors and into the new season. (As He said this I saw in my mind’s eye something like a little lizard trying to crawl across the hallway from one side to the next). So you must close all the old doors before I can open any of the new ones.”
Secondly, we have to know that the burden of changing or being delivered isn’t on us – we don’t have to labour or strive to fix ourselves. In our modern world we are so surrounded by information and analysis – personality tests, self-help books - that we have all identified our problems and maybe even the roots of them (“it’s because my mother dropped me when I was 2” etc). And while we may be more familiar with the causes of our bondages, still we are powerless to free ourselves, because that power belongs to the Lord alone. So it’s not about us trying harder or striving for some “big experience” to change us. In fact, sometimes we can even hinder the movement of God in our hearts and lives because we have a framework or expectation already set of how God has to change or deliver us.
Some of us have a long history of hurts, bad experiences and/or failures. And we may think that the only way we are going to be able to move on with God is to work through all that messy past. And yet the amount of time and effort that would take can make it seem impossible/overwhelming. It’s like having a shoelace that is such a tangled mess of knots you don’t know if you have the time or energy to undo it.
But what if there was another solution? What if, instead of untangling the knots, you just cut the shoelace off and bought a new one? And what if that’s what God wants to do with our past? Not to work through all the junk, but to just supernaturally cut it off and give us a fresh new start?
“Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up; do you not perceive it?
I am making a way in the desert
and streams in the wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19
God wants to re-orient us towards victory! “To re-orient” literally means “to cause to turn to or face the east again”. The east is where the sun rises – where the new day begins. And the east is also where, we know, Jesus will split the sky when He returns as our victorious King.
So what does the Lord require of us? Simply a commitment to reposition our hearts – to forget the former things and to close the doors of the past. God is asking us to turn our backs to the pain and sorrow, the disappointments and failures and hope deferred of the past season and to stand in faith, fixing our eyes on Jesus, trusting that the Mighty One will do all that He has promised.
And as we choose to do this, we will position ourselves for a release of the joy of the Lord that is meant to be our strength. Joy is not an emotion – another word for happiness. Joy is a spiritual force that is unleashed by the revelation of the sovereignty of God. It comes from knowing that no matter what we face, God is in control – He is the King and we are in His hand. And there is no power of the enemy that can remove us from His hand. So when we face hardship, we know that God is permitting it as part of His plan to shape, refine, discipline and train us. When we understand this, then we can “count it all joy” when we suffer trials and tribulations."
As Stephanie shared this, there was a corporate witness that God was challenging us with this question: " Are we willing to “re-orient ourselves towards victory?” In answer to this call, we stood together and physically turned to face the east and one by one, we each declared that we choose to turn away from the disappointment of the past and to re-orient ourselves towards victory, towards our Glorious and soon-coming King!
If this call resonates in your heart then you too can choose to re-orient yourself towards victory right now. Simply face the east and make this declaration “I {put your name} choose today to re-orient myself towards victory. I choose to close all the old doors and to turn my back on the disappointments and failures of the past season. Lord I turn my face with expectancy towards the east and I ask you to give me a greater revelation of you as the Glorious Ruling King. And as I do this, I believe that you will restore unto me the joy of my salvation, that spiritual force that comes from knowing that in every circumstance of My life You are sovereign. In Jesus name, Amen!”
For many months, the Lord had been telling us that the Reunion would be the end of one phase and the beginning of the next. The core team felt the Lord saying there needed to be an offering to seal/close this first phase of the journey – to finish well. Naturally when we hear “offering”, we think of money. But something about that didn’t feel quite right, so we continued to pray and discern together. On Saturday morning we felt the Lord say that the offering He wanted wasn’t money, but an offering of our love for our own communities. And that, in order to close off the last season, there needed to be a shift in our mindsets from being people of Edmonton, Calgary, McLennan, Medicine Hat etc. to being the people of Alberta.
This is something the Lord first began speaking to us while in Lethbridge on the Hidden Treasures Tour - that none of us has the strenght on our own to win the battle for our community. Like the children of Israel crossing into the Jordan, God expects us to fight as one family for each others inheritances (Joshua 1:13-15).
We believe the Lord was showing us a divine plan as to how He wants to release the destiny of the province and each community in it. He showed us a vision of a big tumbler lock on a safe. With these kinds of locks, there is a sequence, a combination - 15 to the left, 30 to the right, 28 to the left –that you have to follow before the door will open. And what if it’s the same with our province - there are keys in some communities that have to be released in order to unlock what the Lord wants in other communities?
Suddenly we realized that the Lord is looking for a remnant who is willing to each lay down their own so that He might impart to us His heart to embrace the whole. Now that doesn’t mean we stop loving or praying for our community/region or doing what the Lord is asking us to do locally.
But what if it means we give up the right to control how and when the Lord fulfills His purpose in each of our communities. What if a remnant of the body in Alberta was willing to lay down the right to put all their energy and focus into releasing the destiny of their personal community and instead wait on the Lord together until He reveals His sequence/order for unlocking the destiny of the province/its communities. For example, let’s say someone lives in Edmonton. If as we seek the Lord together, God says Edmonton is #4 on His list after Medicine Hat, Peace River and Calgary. Then imagine if that person would be willing to give his heart and energy to fight for Medicine Hat, Peace River and Calgary, with the same fervour as he would for Edmonton. The power to do this comes when we realize that our number one priority is not fulfilling any specific vision or mandate, but it is bringing pleasure to His heart. So if God is calling me to lay down my own to embrace the whole, I don’t need to worry that I'm neglecting my own community. Jesus taught us that when we lose our life, we find it. If we will just walk in obedience to the Lord and surrender our rights to Him, there will be a unity that releases the corporate authority of God that will in the end fulfill all that we are each longing to see in our own communities.
Could it be this willingness to lay down our own to embrace the whole is an integral part of a new model of the Kingdom that the Lord is longing to birth in the Church of Alberta: a family of unique tribes who are willing to fight for the inheritance of their brothers?
As we shared together at the Reunion, we felt a resounding “yes” in our hearts and sensed we needed to put a spiritual stake in the ground – to make a declaration that there is a remnant in Alberta that is willing to lay down our own to embrace His ways and His heart. So then the question became – How do we do this?
Beforethe Reunion the Lord had asked the core team to encourage each person to bring something representing our communities/regions - and now we knew why. We felt to do a prophetic act by laying these objects down on a huge fibreglass relief map of Alberta that we had that was placed on the stage. And then together we would pray and make a declaration that there is one church in Alberta.
So the first order of business was to move this very large, full relief map that was placed on the stage. We were just about to get a few men to move it down when the Lord impressed something on Jim Bredeson, one of the fathers from the core team. He felt the Gen Xers needed to be the ones to move the map while the Boomers moved the chairs to make room. It was to be a prophetic picture of something that the Lord has been speaking to us about throughout our whole journey in Alberta: That it is time for the Gen X to rise up and take their place as leaders, carrying the burden for the province alongside the fathers and mothers (Boomers and older) who in turn are willing to make the room for the Gen Xers to do what the Lord is asking of them, no matter how "different" it may be.
It was amazing how much spiritual weight the Lord attached to a seemingly simple act. As the Gen X began to move the map, literally there was a holy presence of God that entered the room. With solemnity and dignity, they carefully lifted the map from the stage and carried it down in a way that was reminiscent of the priests carrying the ark. Then as they came to the spot where the map was to be placed, they paused as if waiting for instruction from the Lord and then slowly and gently they placed the map on the floor as the fathers and mothers cheered them on.
For the next hour, one by one we laid down our communities/regions before the Lord and in the presence of God and the family Just before we were about to pray together, each one of us reached down and picked up something from a community/region different than our own, symbolizing that we are willing to carry one another in the journey that is coming. And we asked God to receive our offering and prayed that He would find us worthy to entrust us with His heart for the province.
And we declared that we choose, because it is His will, to lay down our own that we might embrace the whole. And we thanked God for how He is knitting our province together and declared that we give Him the right to unlock the province and the inheritance of Alberta in the way that He wants. We committed that we would not initiate for God, we would not move from human logic. But we will wait together for His instructions and when He tells us what He wants, we, as one Body in Alberta, will mobilize to follow whatever the Spirit says. We promised that we will fight as one family to see what the Lord wants for Alberta and that we will not stop fighting until every one of the brothers and sisters has received their inheritance. And we declared that we will not rest nor give Him rest until He makes the whole of the province – from north to south and east to west – a resting place for His Glory.
If this is resonating in your heart and you want to add your agreement to what happened on Saturday, then you can pray this prayer now: “Lord, I thank you for what you are doing right now in Alberta, reuniting the family together as one. Lord, I believe that in Your divine wisdom You have the plan for how you want to unlock the destiny of our province and every community in it. And Lord, I believe you are calling me to be one of those that will lay down my right to pursue the release of my own community/region alone so that I might embrace the whole of Your plan for Alberta. Lord, I want to be numbered among the company of those whom you are gathering together in this province to seek Your face and to hear from You Your instruction on how to fulfill Your divine purposes for Alberta and every community/region in it. Lord, I promise to fight for the inheritance of all my brothers and sisters in Alberta and I commit not to rest until You make the whole of this province a resting place for Your glory. In Jesus name, Amen!
As a final act of the gathering, the Lord had instructed us that He wanted a declaration made over the Gen X. The fathers and mothers positioned themselves on one side of the Alberta map with the Gen X standing on the other 3 sides. Then the fathers and mothers acknowledged that God is raising the Gen X to be part of the company of leaders entrusted to carry His heart for Alberta by giving us several ‘charges” (even as Paul did to his spiritual son Timothy in 2 Timothy 4) from the wisdom they have gleaned through their many years of ministry.
Rick shared first:
“One day I had been doing my fast and it had been relatively uneventful. I was about to go to bed at 11:30 when I saw my 14 year old son was still up and I told him to stop gaming and go to bed. 'Yes dad,' he answered. I then woke up at 3:00 am only to find the lights on downstairs and someone still gaming. We had some 'insightful dialogue' and I chased him verbally to bed. I tried to go back to sleep but instead I lay there stewing 'Why can’t he listen to me? I don’t understand.' "
And in the midst of this, the finger of God came and touched something in my heart.
'Thirty years ago ,' He began, 'revival touched something in your heart. And because of that you have placed it above everything else. It was so deep in you that you used it as a measuring stick. If someone/something would bring you closer to that goal, you would embrace them. And if not, you would make them secondary.'
And I realized I had done this with everything in my life. And this deep sense of grief and sorrow came over my heart. The next morning when I was waking up out of sleep I heard the Lord say: 'The highest name I give myself and the foundation stone of reality is 'Father.' When God wanted to fully explain and express Himself He sent forth His son who fully explained His Father. That’s the highest manifestation/revelation of God. It’s that of Father. We hold him as King and that is His position – but as to His person and His Presence, it is Father.
The day after this experience, I woke up from a dream where we had to burst through an old foundation that was cement. And the last image I saw before waking up was a jumble and tumble of cement with re-bar sticking out. And I had a sense that 'We did it.' And somehow, in some way, I believe the heart of what we will walk out is that the Father will reveal Himself in a fresh new way and that will help us understand ourselves as true sons and daughters of the King.
There is a great movie called ' Kingdom of Heaven.' It’s about a young man whose father is a baron but he had a tryst with a maid and so the illegitimate son was born. The father comes and finds him and rescues him, but in so doing, the father is killed. Just before dies, he commissions his son by passing over the symbol of his authority and his ownership, which is his sword. Then later the son repeats the same process with others who are fighting to defend Jerusalem.
We feel there is a sword the Lord has given us - His word, His precious promises, that we’ve been walking in and in so doing they have produced divine nature in us. And what we want to do is take from our life and commission and challenge you and say 'If you will take this from our lives, it will help you to fulfill all that God has put in you and that we have prayed for. Because we recognize you are the fruit of our labours and prayers. And as we have cried out and others like us, God has brought you here for such a time as this. You have come into the kingdom for such a time of this. This isn’t a passing of a baton, this is simply out of our own life, we want to give you these instructions as Paul wrote to Timothy so that you in turn can find other faithful ones and give them instructions as well. And together we will see the Lord gain His glory that His name might be renowned and held in fear and awe in this place and space that He has given us to establish His kingdom.' "
So before God and His elect angels, because I believe the balustrades of heaven are crowded now and the angelic hosts and the saints who have laid down their lives are all watching. And the enemy is watching too and I hope it brings fear in him because God is shifting something. So I want to say to you, please, out of what God has shown me, never never never put vision above people. Take deeply the passion, take deeply the vision God puts in you but realize people are the vision. God’s kingdom and his people are the vision. It’s always about that and if you do that your burden will be light and God will add strength and speed to your feet."
Mark shared secondly:
“You all remember when Jesus was baptized and the most significant thing that happened was a voice that came from heaven saying: “This is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.” And just as the greatest revelation about God is as a Father, the greatest revelation we can have about ourselves is of our identity as sons and daughters. Jesus heard the heavenly voice and so did the people around him. And what happened next? He went to the wilderness and was tempted by the enemy in what? His identity. 'If you really are the son of God, if you are…' But he knew that He didn’t have to prove a thing, He knew exactly who he was. And I speak over you tonight, your identity first and foremost as sons and daughters of the living God. And the voice of heaven speaks over you tonight, this is my beloved son and this is my beloved daughter in whom I’m well pleased.”
And secondly I give this charge to you. It’s an obscure thing that Paul says in Colossians at the end of his letter: 'Tell Archippus: Make sure you complete the work you have received in the Lord.' So I give you this charge as well: Make sure you complete the work you have received in the Lord. As Paul said: ' I wasn’t disobedient to the heavenly vision.' It has to be a heavenly, vision, a work in the Lord. Whatever it is, raising your kids, preaching the gospel – make sure it’s in the Lord and make sure you complete it. Many of you have received the work of the Lord, the call many many years ago but the charge is still there to you make sure you complete the work you received from the Lord.”
Thirdly Jim shared:
“In my life it hasn’t been so much sacrificing people for vision but the opposite: The desire to perform for people. Keeping in mind what Rick said, I would strongly urge you: Don’t perform for others, for what people expect of you, what your parents expect of you – listen to what God says. I urge you in connection with this to embrace humility and obedience. The thing I have done since the first day in my ministry in 1982 – is to pray for humility and wisdom every day. And I encourage you to pray for those two things and you know God will answer that. You may not like the way he answers the 'humility' part, but remember it is in these times you will learn the wisdom that you need.”
Danyele was the fourth one to speak:
“One of the things that I would say to you is 'endure hardship as a good soldier.' Don’t bow to pressure or circumstances, don’t bow to the right or the left or to the sound of the enemy. Don’t bow to enemy, don’t bow to anything but your Lord! Bottom line: It is about the will of God. Do what is right in the sight of the Lord. Every time you are to make a decision – if you are tempted to be angry, ask yourself 'is this right in the sight of the Lord?' Put Him first and you won’t become a man pleaser and you won’t’ fear man.
And the word of the Lord says, Jesus said, “I have come down from heaven to do the will of God who sent me not to do my own will. In 2 Cor 10:5 in the Message Bible, it says “fitting every loose thought, every emotion and impulse into the structure of life shaped by Christ.” What is that structure? He did the will of the Lord. So as a good soldier, endure hardship because the kingdom call is about being a good soldier. Be totally committed and consecrated to that – lay down your life for your King. If you do that first God will honour it.”
After Danyele, Brenda (from the national team of Women’s Aglow) spoke as the fith speaker:
“I would charge you that obedience is better than sacrifice. It is a broken and contrite heart that God will not despise. It’s ok to be broken. And the last thing, because I’ve overcome people pleasing in my life, this is who He esteems: He who fears and trembles at His word.”
And finally Barb shared:
“A word that came to me today is Isaiah 50:7 - I have set my face like flint. Because of the things I have had to overcome personally and in ministry that has had to be built in me. But it was from God. God did it and I didn’t have to work it up. So my word to you is perseverance. We are overcomers. Set your face like flint to the call God has on your life. God will be more than enough for each one of you."
As they completed these charges to the Gen X, the fathers made this declaration from one generation to another: “Because He is, we can. And we are standing before you saying: ' Yes you can, Son. Yes you can, Daughter. Rise up, yes you can! Despite circumstances, rise up, yes you can! Because He is, yes you can. And your response is 'yes we can!' "
Then they took a large sword that they were holding in their hands and passed it across the map into the hands of the Gen Xers.
The Gen X responded saying, “We feel so humbled and honoured to be here. We’ve heard 'take the baton and run' and how many times have we felt we do want to run, but not alone. We think of the verse in Malachi 4 – the hearts of the fathers will turn to the sons and then the hearts of the sons will turn to the fathers. And there is a promise that goes with that, a blessing. So we say: 'We receive your wisdom, we receive your wise counsel and take it to heart. We will be found as 2 Timothy says, as faithful men and women who receive it and pass it on to other faithful men and women. That is our commitment and we will endeavour to do by the grace of God through faith.'
It’s important also for us to say we understand that we have left you for a long time carrying the sword alone. And tonight as we stand here, we say 'No more.' No more will we stand as critics, in judgment, pointing the finger and saying 'You should make it a better church.' We are going to stand alongside you, even as you have invited us to. Because it’s our church, not your church, it’s our church. It’s our province. And you are not going to labour alone. We are going to lift up your arms, you will lift up our arms and together we will run like the wind.”
As a final act we gathered all the children and Millenials (Generation Y) and asked them to stand inside the circle that had been created by the Gen X and fathers and mothers standing together. The kids, ages 5-12, had spent the whole gathering in a special kids equipping school where they had been learning about waking up spiritually, how to hear God, what does it mean to live in the kingdom and how do we walk as one body and one family. And that very night, they had learned about the righteous foundations of the province and about the righteous seeds in the ground and about how we need to call those seeds to life. So as we stood together, representing all the generations (Builders, Boomers, Gen X, Millenials and even the little kids of whom we don’t even know the name of their generation yet!) we leaned over the map of Alberta and shouted for the righteous seeds, planted by the generations that have gone before us, to WAKE UP!!!