• Moved to Lacombe in 1977, involved in CHSDA, went to CUC to take Bachelor of Theology
• Went to Andrews after CUC, did masters of divinity, then came back and pastored in Smoky Lake and Bonnyville – met Eric when he was looking to see if he’d make a good chaplain for Canadian Union College, transferred there in 1982

As the chaplain, he was working with the church as an associate pastor, Eric was working in the CUC finance office – they worked together on campus ministries and they were looking to do something that could impact people in developing countries – got together and decided they would try to do a project through the school, then the church as a support to start an organization and have financial and partners support and travel one day. Drew up some guidelines of what they wanted to do and accomplish, went to the board with a proposal to do one project/year with a max of $5,000 sponsored by the church. 1990. Reluctant at first, but Eric and Brian convinced them. Approved for just one project to start. Opportunity to make appeal to the church one time with only max of $5k. Went to the church, did their homework, appealed to the church, only the one chance they raised $15,000. Kendu Bay surgery project. Problem because they only said they could do one project with $5k. They removed the limits so they could just go ahead and use the funds on whatever projects. Found two more projects. Grew from there. Still make an appeal to the church once/year, and hundreds of donors now support ABW.

One of the things that has always inspired me is that we recognize we can’t make the entire world a better place, but we can change one life at a time and make a difference in one person’s life–if we can do that, we can start making a difference in a lot of people’s lives. I’m not so naive as to think we can change the entire world, we certainly can make a difference in the life of one person. We go and we can see kids who didn’t have water who now do, didn’t have food, now have food, education, medical help, etc. It’s very fulfilling to me. That’s what motivates me.