Kevin Presseault

It's Tuesday night... Blue Jays are playing the Red Sox... and just let a run get in. AND NOW A HOME RUN WITH A GUY ON BASE!!! AAARRRGGGH! Why is it that whenever I have a chance to actually watch a Jays game they stink it up. Maybe I should just watch replays the next day! So much going on lately... My son started grade one today. While waiting in line to start his day he was stung by a hornet right inside his ear! Poor kid. Not a good way to start school. He was fine within 5 minutes and had a great day after that. I'm so proud of this kid! I'm so glad his school started the French immersion program last year. I always appreciated the fact that I learned French and wanted to pass that on to my kids. My daughter starts junior kindergarten next week. That means both our kids will be in school... no more babies :( WHEN ARE THEY GOING TO PULL THIS BLUE JAYS PITCHER?!?!?!?! Red Sox just got another run! I'm exhausted tonight! Last week's funeral was quite...

I am just so thrilled to be a part of this church family! With the last few days around here I've just seen so much love being poured out. I can't believe God would use a schmo like me to be a part of reaching his world! I just can't get my head around it...

I knew this day would come when I decided to be a pastor... but you're never really ready for it. This Friday I need to do my first funeral... and for a young man killed in a car accident. So if you're praying kind please put me on your list.

I'm a hugger. Yes. I admit it. Nothing makes my day more then a good huge from a good friend. Hand shakes are for strangers and business deals. Hugs are for friends. This weekend being back in Montreal I sure got my fill of great hugs when talking with great friends from the different ministries we were involved with back there. Today I feel like a million bucks and pumped and excited about kicking off this new ministry year! And I'm sure that it from feeling God's love for me through the hugs of these friends! Now, here in our new home of Ontario... well... people don't hug. I guess Montrealers are just more lovie-dovie :) So, today I'm taking the Bible verse Romans 12:2 to heart! The verse says "Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world" So, if the pattern of this Ontario world is not to hug... well then... I'm not going to conform to it any longer! I'm going to continue to show the world the love of Jesus the best way I k...

Yup. Tomorrow morning, bright and early, we're back in the car and heading off to Montreal for the weekend. We're dropping the kids off in Ottawa so they can go camping with their aunt and uncle and Danielle and I are hitting the Airport Hilton in Dorval for the weekend. Friends of ours are getting married on Saturday. Looking forward to this one. It should be a real "collision of two worlds" for us. Turns out that the groom's family is all from Elmira, Ontario, the town where I'm now working as an associate pastor! In fact, I work with one of his cousins (she's the Director of Children's Ministry), his uncle was a former elder at the church, and a whole bunch of his relatives go to our church. And they're all heading down for the wedding as well. It will be very weird and cool having friends from both worlds :) Yup... it really is a small world! Also, we'll be at our Montreal church on Sunday, Westview Bible Church . I'll be doing a little...

A few weeks back I was interviewed by Manda Gibson from Saddleback Church to get my opinion on Rick Warren's new podcast. The article entitled "Rick Warren’s podcast lets pastors learn from each other" is now online. You can read it HERE . It's a bit misquoted... I was talking about how, now that I'm a pastor, it's easy to get stuck in the day-to-day of the church... that really had nothing to do with the fact that I came to faith in my twenties. Also, going to see the Transformers with a friend from outside the church was an example of the importance of having friends outside the church building. It's not easy for me to make friends outside the church... I guess for some reason guys just don't wanna hang out with a pastor :)

This is going to fall under the "Kevin, You're An Idiot" category... For weeks now I've been trying to find a way to clean up the music on my iPod Nano. Since it only had 1 GB of space, it keeps getting filled rather quickly. I've been dragging files out of iTunes (but not deleted the physical files) and then playing those files using either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. This was starting to drive me nuts and I figured that there HAD to be a simpler way then this... after all how could you buy more then 1 GB of music from iTunes if you couldn't manage what is transferred to the iPod better... I don't know why I didn't notice this option before... but RIGHT THERE on the Options for the iPod in iTunes is a simple little check-box... "Only sync checked items"... so simple! How did I miss this??!?!? So I put all my music back into iTunes, selected just the albums and podcasts that I wanted on the iPod, did a sync and now have a whopping 315...