CharlesPedley

Hi!

My name is Charles Pedley. So why should you care?

Okay so you get it that the website is my name and I don’t need to tell you my name. So I won’t tell you that my name is Charles Pedley. Okay? Don’t blame me! I warned you!

My experiences are wide and varied: I have just recently written a book called, Joyful Mourning, A True Love Story.

Various individuals have seen or heard parts of it as I tried to decide if it should be published. I received comments like “You sure know how to make me want to read the next chapter!”

I use the story of my daughter, Rebecca, 26, who lost her husband  to Hodgkin’s disease, a form of cancer, to explain the grieving process and how God wants to use losses in our lives to become closer to us.

I tell the story of how they met [a divine coincidence which I call a Godincidence], married, and were parted. I pause to bring comfort to those with like experiences by explaining the grieving process that all who have lost something or someone, MUST go through.

It is filled with stories from my own experience of God teaching us HOW to grieve, live, and survive as my daughter, Rebecca did, and as we did with her as we got hope from every new treatment, only to lose it as Tedd would get sick again.

You may think this sounds like a terrible tragedy. And it could be called that. However God taught Rebecca and we, her parents to be closer to Him than we ever were before.  And THAT is the desire of GOD for EVERY ONE OF US. There is NO tragedy in that experience!

I asked God once a few months after Tedd passed away, “God, you knew Tedd was going to die in the end. Why did we have to go through 4 years of hope and and loss if Tedd was only going to die anyway?”

The answer came to my mind as clear as if he were there in my van with me [Well actually He was!].

“So that YOU might be found faithful.” came rushing into my brain! To know more about the significance of that you can read the summary of the book here.

The amazing story of how my daughter went through this and the miracles she experienced from her point of view is here.

Six months after she and Tedd were married, the disease was discovered. He went through treatments and remissions for almost four years. He was a most unusual young man as most people I know who have serious cancer die in the first year after diagnosis. He passed away 3 days before their 4th wedding anniversary.

But that almost four years was filled with joy as well as sadness...

To read the rest of the story, click here....

To NOT READ THE REST OF THE STORY, DO NOT GO THERE!

Some of you may think that statement is obvious. After some 34 plus years of teaching, trust me, not much IS obvious to everyone!

Here are some of my unique characteristics:

SPEAKER:

    • Youth Retreats
    • Youth Camps
    • ISCF Group Meetings
    • ICBA - [International Christian Biker’s Association] - spoke at a Son Rally
    • Sherkston Beaches - Sunday Service for the ICBA
    • Gideons - As a member of the Gideons spoke at various churches
    • Nite Lite - My wife Ellen and I were invited by Paul Willoughby to talk about going through the experience of joyful mourning due to my youngest daughter’s loss of her husband at 26 years of age.

Computer Conference Speaker for:

      • ECOO [Educational Computing Organization of Ontario] three times
      • Brock University College of Education
      • Niagara South Board of Education [Now District School Board of Niagara]
      • Welland County Roman Catholic Separate School Board PD Day
      • Reading Association
      • Home School Associations

Sunday School Teacher

      • New Christians Class
      • College and Career
      • Social Concerns
      • Teen Superintendent and Teacher
      • Young Adult
      • Young Married Couples
      • Senior homes

Cell Ministry

      • Intercessory Prayer
      • Communion with God
      • Grieving
      • 12 Christian Beliefs that Could Drive You Crazy
      • Young Adults - Many Topics including singleness
      • Crown Financial Group Facilitator

Witnessing

      • Street witnessing at Crystal Beach
      • Life Institutes - door to door
      • I Found It campaign -Here’s Life Niagara - door to door
      • Phone witnessing for callins
      • Led several individuals to the Lord

Education

      • Buffalo School of the Bible [Now Elim Bible Institute] equivalence of two years of Bible school including...
        • Christian Counseling -two courses
        • Hebrews
        • Romans
        • Acts
        • Pastoral Ministry
        • School of the Prophets - learning to hear God’s word to us
        • Communion with God
        • Tested with Oral Roberts University test regarding knowledge of OT and NT at over 80% - eliminating need to take OT and NT survey courses
        • Marriage and Family
        • Divine Healing
        • Christian Ethics
        • Personal reading of many books including Evidence that Demands a Verdict, Christian Apologetics, Muslim Belief System, Counseling and many more
        • Tested as having a personality fitted to Christian Counseling
      • Basic Youth Conflicts
      • Marriage Encounter
      • Tim LeHaye Marriage Seminars

Formal Education

        • M S Ed - Niagara University 1976 - specializing in Guidance and Counseling
        • BA McMaster 1970 - specialty - Psychology and Geography
        • Principal’s Course
        • Computers in the Classroom

Other Related Experiences

Do you wonder why I picked a picture of an agricultural scene as my theme?

You might now say, “Okay, okay, you have lots of experiences and training! But what about the apples and the farm? I didn’t see any farm training in that list!”

  • I view much of what I do as being a ‘seed-planter’. I have planted spiritual seeds in many lives and like Jesus’ parable, I wish they all fell on good ground. I have watered. I have harvested. But I believe my main calling is to plant seeds.

Apples, as all flowering plants, have seeds which attempt to plant themselves at the foot of the apple tree fertilized by the delicious rotting apple. Well delicious to the seed anyway!

  • Apple trees create thousands of seeds. At home in Wainfleet our family used to press apples every year to make cider. Then the leftover pressings were put in a compost pile. Come spring, there were thousands of sprouting apple trees.

Care to have some spiritual seeds planted?

  • I have recently been told that I am a ‘fountain of knowledge’ on many topics. My dad, Charles Wesley Pedley, was like that too. He used to joke that he had his MUI degree. [Master of Useless Information]

I have been called prophetic. Behind my back, I probably have been called, “pathetic” (:-)

  • One of my former science students laughed so much at my jokes, he accused me of making him fail science the first term. I guess it couldn’t have been all that bad because now he is a pastor and church-planter presently in Xenia, Ohio

Recently, a student I had in grades 2, and 4 for computers which she really did not want to take, emailed me from York University and told me the computer skills she learned were standing her in good stead in her residence shared with 3 computer science majors

  • I also had a student from a behaviour class in Bridgeview School, Welland, email me this past year, 2007-8 and tell me about his job in Waterloo, his marriage and family

And one of the most interesting things that have happened to me in the last year 2007-2008 was a student who now teaches at George Brown College in Toronto, at the foot of Casa Loma, who was in my FIRST CLASS in Winger School, Wainfleet in 1964! He is a grandfather himself!

  • I welcome the opportunity no matter how small to fill in as a church speaker when the pastor is away, to seminars, men’s fellowship meetings, senior’s events and the like.

God has called me to redeem the time. I believe due to my wide experience in speaking to a great variety of audiences that God can use me to speak to you!

  • Blessings!
  • Phone 905-228-2161 or 1-877-261-3599 toll-free for more information or to complain about anything you like! I am sometimes a good listener. Maybe you will get me on a one of those good days! (:-)>
  • For the first one hundred callers, we are offering a 1000% reduction in our fees. (:-) Pay only an honorarium!
  • By the way I am serious when seriousness is called for.
  • However on this website, provoking you to keep reading is paramount. So if you it did not work and you did NOT read this far, please call me toll-free and I will buy you a cup of Tim Horton’s! (:-)
  • For thinking OUTSIDE of the box, please call!
  • If your roof leaks, call!   ...... your roofer
  • If your basement leaks, call! ...... your waterproofer
  • If your brain leaks, call ME! I may be able to stem the flow!
  • Sincerely
  • Charles G. Pedley BA MSED
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