Scouting in Golden BC

Here is the long awaited, much anticipated, scouting report from Golden, British Columbia. If you remember, Rebekah (see profile pic) and I took a trip over Spring Break to British Columbia to visit friends from The Potter's House Community Church in Westbank. On the way there and back we stopped to do some scouting and prayer walking in some of the towns along the way. A while back, I gave everyone the update on Revelstoke, which we scouted on our way to BC. Now on to Golden, BC, which we scouted on the way back. Golden is a small town of about 5000 people located at the intersection of the Trans-Canada highway, which is the main east-west route across Canada and thru the Rocky Mountains and BC highway 95 which is the main north-south route thru southeastern BC. The town is very tourist oriented with camping, hiking, scenery, and a stopping point thru the Rocky Mountains the main attraction during the summer and the Kicking Horse Alpine Ski Resort, the main attraction during the winter. There are some churches in the town, but all are very small. There is one baptist church, and although it is not Southern Baptist, it seems to be a fairly strong, yet very small church. The most interesting church we found was a Sikh Temple. Sikhism is a religion that has followers from around the world, but the majority of them live in India, which has a large population. Sikhism, to my surprise and probably yours as well, is the 5th largest religion in the world and I didn't know anything about it. I have since done some research into it. I am going to put some links to sites that give basic information about this religion so you can learn more about it as well.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sikh

http://www.answers.com/topic/sikhism

Both of these sites are pretty basic and give introcutory info about the religion.

This was definately the most interesting thing about our limited time in Golden. We rode up to the ski resort just to see it, and we found out there is a golf course on the way up the moutain, for those of you who know me a golf course on the road to the Ski hill seems like a nice place to live to me. After some very cold prayer walking we went to a restraunt to have some lunch before heading on back to Calgary. Rebekah and I sat next to this guy who was sitting by himself, he said hey and so we talked to him for a bit. Then our food came so Rebekah and I prayed together for the food, and when we said "Amen" the guy sitting next to us said "Congratulations" He didn't say, "that's nice to see" or "I like to see people praying for their food" He said Congratulations,we knew what he meant but it was a funny way to start a conversation. He asked us if we were Christians and we got to tell him yes, and he told us he was too. It was a neat converstaion. He was heading to Vancouver and we were heading to Calgary (opposite directions for those of you not famaliar with Canadian geography. Overall, it was a very interesting trip to Golden, we had fun, learned a lot, and got some good scouting done.

As I have bee typing this entry, I realized I have mentioned the word "scouting" as if all of you would know what that means. I know that most of you that read this blog know what this term means, but for those of you who don't I will be posting an entry tommorow that explains just what that is. For those of you already familiar with scouting, it might be a fun read from the Dean of Scouting, Dwight Huffman. Until then, pray for the people of Golden and for someone with a heart for a resort and logging community to plant a church there.