Musings from the Mission

In the last two weeks since the “unfortunate” placement of Kelowna’s Gospel Mission’s 30K Club ad next to an ad by an escort agency, I’ve been doing a lot of mulling over the irony of it all. It’s as if somehow we don’t understand how the two are related.

“Homeless: having no security of tenure.” I am homeless. I never in my wildest dreams thought I would be in that position. Yet here I am . . . homeless. Oh yes, I do own a home, and yes, I do hope and expect to be returning to it soon, but for the moment, right now, I am homeless. For me the reason is because of the West Kelowna fires. Did I plan on becoming homeless? Did I wake up last...

I had a message left on my answering machine the other day. Now that in itself is not unusual by any means, but the content was. You see, normally the messages I get are the usual “call me about such and such”, or “we need to meet about this”, or even one fellow who used to leave long messages about his encounters and conspiracies with various Hollywood stars including Sylvester Stallone...

I just returned from the emergency room in the hospital. I wasn’t there for myself, but for a co-worker’s husband who was in an auto accident. I really dislike the e.r., having spent a lot of my time there recently due to my own ruptured appendix. But that is another story, and I digress. Fortunately my friend was not injured seriously, and I was able to walk out of the hospital with him a...

Randy's comments on Kelowna's Gospel Mission's new website