Pastor John Van Sloten

Monday, a member of our church community connects me to Leonard Sweet (big time author) saying he’s really interested in reading my book (he’s got a book on the same topic coming out in August as well).  I send Sweet a digital copy and two days later I get this wonderful endorsement.  Tuesday, I need to write an article on finding God in the Canadian Men’s Olympic Hockey team, and on a hunch, send an email to Globe and Mail sports writer Roy MacGregor, asking if he’d help me research/write my sermon.  He says yes, and then three hours later, after a bit of back and forth emailing, I have my article done.  I want to craft it into an editorial and see if the Globe or maybe the Vancouver Sun will run it.  Thursday I sent an email to a US Christian college dean in response to an article he’d written, offerning to send him a copy of my book (his article expressed a need that I thought the thesis of the book might address).   I felt a bit goofy sending the email to tell you the truth – not everyone needs to read my book!   This morning he got back to me, saying he’d just gotten out of a chapel at his school where a biology professor said the exact same thing I’d written in my email.  An hour later he sent me a second note saying that he’d read the first two chapters and felt a lot of the same things I’d written about through the life of HIS son with Down syndrome.   I lost it when I read his note.  What a week.