Isaiah Theodore: God's Salvation is a Gift

It's a boy!!! I'd like to introduce you to Isaiah Theodore Lacasse. Born Saturday, June 23rd at 10:22pm. Weighing-in at 8.1lbs. We've been in the hospital recovering and resting for 3 days so far.

Bethi's eating, feeding, and healing.

Isaiah is eating, sleeping, screaming.

And I'm walking around with Izee, listening to sermons/audio-bible, and making friends with new dads and moms.

Prayer request for spiritual birth

A couple friends from Sunago's sharing faith group and I were sharing the gospel with a 3rd year UVic business student from China named Emily.

I felt that God was stirring her heart as we shared the Good News with her.

Please pray that our glorious Lord would open her eyes and cause her heart to respond to the gospel through his Spirit. Jesus bring spiritual life by your grace!

As you pray for spiritual birth, please keep Bethi in your prayers for a healthy physical birth of our baby, as our due date is in two days!

Answered Prayer!

A week or two ago we prayed about getting a Chariot Stroller so that we could take our baby along when we run or bike. Carol, a gardener for our landlord knocked on our door a couple of days ago and donated this Chariot stroller to us! Praise the Lord! Our Father is such a generous Father!

Prayer Walk @ Camosun College

Skyler, the new Campus Ministry Apprentice (CMA) with Sunago in January 2013, and I went for a prayer-walk around Camosun College yesterday afternoon.

We saw this girl who was spray-brushing a big mural on a bike shelter and felt led by the Spirit to strike up a conversation. We had a great talk. She's a graduate student who's been into Buddhist meditation, and I, having just studied Buddhism for my summer course on World Religions, was able to bridge the gap between the lotus and the cross, between enlightenment and being born by the Spirit and coming to know Jesus as the Way, the Truth, and the Life.

I felt like God wanted me to tell her about how much he loves her and thinks that she's beautiful in his eyes and that he loves her art and how she makes her surroundings beautiful. We shared the gospel of the grace of Christ Jesus and prayed with her. It was a wonderful encounter. I really believe that the Holy Spirit was speaking to her and stirring her heart.

We continued our prayer walk for another hour or so and then I went home and praised God through the evening, truly a wonderful day. :)

Building Lasting Friendships

 The word Sunago is a Greek word that means "to gather together".  


An example of this is when Jesus said: "For where two or three have gathered together in My name, I am there in their midst" (Matthew 18:20).


At Sunago we want to build friendships that edify the believer, that glorify God, and that last a lifetime. 


In the featured picture, friends gather to celebrate one of our former-leader's birthday. Most of the people in this picture are or have been Sunago leaders, but we're all, without a question, friends who care about each other and want to encourage each other in our walk with Christ.


Please pray for Fall semester, when many students will be looking for a community to join and their decisions will have a huge impact on the rest of their University experience.

Being Equipped to Equip Others

Tag-teaming Academics

During the past 2 years of campus ministry, I've been taking part-time courses towards an MDiv on the side. This helps me to be better equipped to equip students for their lives in Christ on campus.

These courses have helped me deepen my understanding of the bible, God's word, and deepen my love for God in Christ.

In this photo, I'm taking a break from writing an assignment on a critique of the Qur'an. This summer I'm taking a course on World Religions. Studying the histories and philosophies of the world's religions has helped me understand where certain students are coming from, how to relate with students of differing religious backgrounds, and teach the followers of Christ how to bridge religions to the Gospel.

James, studying across from me, was a leader at Sunago this past year and is taking 6 courses this summer to finish his degree so that he can be a missionary/ESL teacher in Japan in August.
He comes to the library almost every day of the week from 7:30AM till ~9PM or so.
He's such an encouragement in my life and especially to my discipline towards studying.

Here's just a little tid-bit from my assignment.

Regarding syntax, Gerd R. Puin, a scholar skilled in Arabic, was entrusted by Yemen with the analysis of the earliest copies of the Qur’an (705-715 AD)  found in a Yemeni mosque. He comments: “The Qur’an claims for itself that it is ‘mubeen,’ or clear, but if you look at it, you will notice that every fifth sentence or so simply doesn’t make sense. Many Muslims will tell you otherwise, of course, but the fact is that a fifth of the Qur’anic text is just incomprehensible. This is what has caused the traditional anxiety regarding translation. If the Qur’an is not comprehensible, if it can’t even be understood in Arabic, then it’s not translatable into any language”