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Brent Hackett

Brent Hackett

Brent Hackett is the CEO of Our Daily Bread Ministries Canada and oversees the Canadian operations from the office in Windsor, Ontario. With a background in newspaper publishing, radio broadcasting, and the Christian publishing industry, his focus is now growing the impact and outreach of Our Daily Bread Ministries in Canada. Brent and his wife, Angie, have four children (three still on earth, one in Heaven) and three grandchildren.

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Seeds & Soils

If you like growing pumpkins, you have probably heard of Dill’s Atlantic Giant variety of premium pumpkin seeds. Developed on a family farm in Atlantic Canada, the pumpkins grown from these seeds have set records around the world. In 2011, a pumpkin grown in Quebec set a new world record at 1,818.5 pounds (825 kg). That size of pumpkin could yield almost 1,000 pieces of pie!

A Sure Salvation

A story is told that Queen Victoria of the UK was deeply moved during a church service. Afterward, she asked her chaplain, “Can one be absolutely sure in this life of eternal safety?” He did not have an answer. But an evangelist named John Townsend heard about the Queen’s question, and after much prayer he sent her a note: “With trembling hands, but heartfelt love, and because I know that we can be absolutely sure now of our eternal life in the Home that Jesus went to prepare, may I ask your Most Gracious Majesty to read the following passages of Scripture: John 3:16; Romans 10:9-10?”