Red Deer

Yeah,

with Red Deer.

Isn't he Red Deer's best player? I saw an article of him one

day.

He is the youngest player on both Canada teams in 2011.

10 points in seven games.

Yeah.

No, he's from Red Deer.

I'm from central Alberta, everybody.

I was born in Winnipeg, grew up in Regina, then moved in grade six to Red Deer.

And then we spent two years in Christian school.

And then I entered public high school.

And I really appreciate that you're going to be open to whatever I have to say.

So Mr. Olegius bridged to my family and heard me and made space for me to like grow into who I was.

um in that space grade 11 mr lund said that my parents and parent teacher interviews he said mr lund passed just a couple years ago he started a group called stop students and teachers oppose the prejudice in our high school in red deer so anyway mr lund said to my parents and teacher parent teacher interviews i don't think i fully understand layton i think there's a lot more to him than he shares my parents were like what do you mean and he said I just think there's a lot there.

I think he was already tuning in and attending to my queerness in a way that I had another decade to go before I could come to terms with my full identity.

how to be a social partner with tough men who are involved with, let's say, we'd work seven days on in the morning, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m., and then we switch to night, seven days, 8 p.m. to 8 a.m., 14 days, 12-hour days work.

You get seven days off, and you've got to go with your crew to a place like Rocky Mountain House, Alberta, or Red Deer, and then hit the bars.

And boy, could those guys drink and fight.

They would fight cowboys, get sent off by the police for aggravated assault.

And today I'm going to take you and we're going to go pick it up.

We're going to take it for a spin.

So we go down to the Cadillac dealer, Red Deer, and he plunks in a bag of cash and he buys this vehicle.

And he's so excited.

100%.

How far away from Edmonton's core do you need to be to be an hour and a half? You can be in Red Deer and you can be in Edmonton's core almost in an hour and a half.

Not quite.

But there's virtually nowhere in Greater Edmonton that you need to be... owning in the

And the handmade market came to town.

And so I go to this thing in Red Deer and in the first hall, I'm doing OK. It's handmade goods, you know, gift ideas, things like that.

I'm not tempted to spend money.

And then I go into the next hall.

Some of these artists are definitely pretty fresh.

So I first met Grayson working in a kitchen back in Red Deer a couple years ago.

Summer of 2023, I think we calculated it.

And I scouted the young talent.

And then you moved away to Edmonton.

I did.

I ran away to Edmonton, had to leave an old red deer behind.

But we, like, became boys.

It's now the snowpocalypse.

So Friday morning, the roads were atrocious and it came in, I would say hot and heavy, but it was cold, wet and blanketed the earth here in Red Deer, Alberta.

Yeah.

It was white knuckling it all the way into work.

How Canadian are you? Well, recently we just had a weather change.

It's now the snowpocalypse.

So Friday morning, the roads were atrocious and it came in, I would say hot and heavy, but it was cold, wet and blanketed the earth here in Red Deer, Alberta.

Yeah.

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It's good to be here.

To give us the mind that Christ had that isn't considering equality with God something that we have to have.

An attitude and a heart that's willing to humble ourselves before Christ and before our neighbor and to even be seen as wrong sometimes for the sake of the kingdom.

What if we prayed like that? What if in Red Deer, you know? What if in Red Deer you prayed like that? You don't have to force it, but just pray, Lord, Holy Spirit, work in my heart.

Make me more like Jesus.

Bring me closer to my brother or sister that, what if we did that? What if that was the posture of this church even? You know, Summit Church.