Hello friends, November 30, 2009
this week was awesome. It was really busy as usual. We had our Church ministry class with Dave Ernst teaching us. It was a really interesting course and very beneficial because most of us have grown up involved in some sort of church. My favourite part of the class was there was a panel of Pastors, pastor’s kids, and pastor’s wives. We were able to hear about their ministry and what their struggles and their joy’s are. Overall it was a very interesting class and today we just had the exam which I think I did ok on. This week at youth there was a good turnout. Stevie talked about two healing miracles that Jesus performed. I led my small group girls in discussion questions and it was encouraging because they all expressed how they believe in prayer and that God can heal. They all had stories about God had healed someone in their family or someone that they know. During the end two girls got into fight and one ended up being pretty upset so it was difficult to deal with that while trying to teach all of the girls. Anyways overall youth went really well and the kids listened much better to Stevie G during his lesson. That was an answer to prayer and very encouraging. Saturday I worked m last partial weekend in the kitchen for Men’s Retreat. I worked from 1pm till 7pm. It was cool to help out. I had to cut some onions, which was funny because I always cry when I cut onions and there was one point where I thought I had gone blind but I think I was just being dramatic. Saturday night dinner was awesome, it was Steak and prawns. I think all the men and especially all the Kaleos and staff enjoyed it. On Sunday I helped out in Sunday school with Stevie. It was cool because I got meet more Warmland kids which were some of the younger ones that do not come to youth. It is nice to get to know more and more kids in Crofton. I feel like if I go anywhere I run into someone that I know from the church. It is cool to have the community feeling in a place that feels so far away from home. This week we are headed off to Vancouver for a youth conference. I am really excited. Please pray that everyone will be able to get their work done and will not be stressed at the conference. I hope everyone is good back at home. Thanks for praying, there was definitely an improvement in the youth this week.
God Bless!!
Monday, November 30, 2009
Monday, November 23, 2009
Prayer Week
Hello friends, November 23, 2009
This week was a week that I will always remember. This was 24/7 prayer week. When I first heard of this I was unclear what was expected and I thought oh boy.....a whole week of prayer this is going to be boring. Well.....I could not have been more wrong. The way it worked was all 28 of us including leaders each signed up to pray for an hour a day including the late hours into the night. The point was to always have someone in the prayer room 24/7 for the whole week. If someone forgot to go to their shift the person would be in the prayer room until someone else came so there was always someone in the prayer room. I thought praying for an hour would be long but it definitely was not. I prayed with people and by myself. God really showed me a lot in that prayer room. I think I learned how to listen to him. I would pray but think too, about him, and my life. I think he showed me how important encouragement and building up other people is. I really loved the week (even though we had A LOT of homework) and I think it brought so many of us closer together. This week at youth we had about talking to Jesus. There was quite a large number of youth and they didn’t really pay attention. They talked pretty much through his whole thing and it is hard to listen to because they just talk and do not listen when you tell them not to talk. So, I am praying for Stevie and hopefully seeds are at least being planted. In my small group we were able to have a bit more of a conversation which was good and an answer to prayer but sometimes it is still hard. We have two girls who know the lord and no most of the answers to the questions and the other ones don’t really care. They were however able to open up a bit and tell me more about their family life which was cool. They are just hurt and want attention. I am learning to really want to get to know the annoying ones and I think God is changing my attitude about them. We played games and had snack after that. That is always my favourite part and I like being to play and just have fun with the kids. We cleaned up at the end and went to McDonalds after for a treat! The rest of the week was good with continued prayer and a lot of homework. Sunday I had church I was down with the Jr. Church kids. I went around with the JKs and SKs so it was fun. They were cute. My helper was a girl from youth so that was cool. I already knew her she seemed happy that she got to be with me so that was nice. We played and I really enjoyed being with that age group they are so cute. Also this past week on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon I had QFX. QFX is where I am placed with another student with one staff member to experience their job and what it is like to work in camp ministry. I got placed with Haley working in the kitchen with the head cook Laura. It was so much fun!! We got to build a gingerbread train! It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed working in the kitchen and seeing how things worked and her type of job. Overall this past week was pretty cool and I learned a lot. This week we have a Church Ministry class. Today was our first day and I really like it. It is much more interesting than I thought it would be. I like Dave and I think he is a good teacher. Anyway I hope everyone is doing good back in Ontario...has it snowed yet? It has sure rained here. Thank you for your prayers, please continue to pray for the Warmland kids!!!
God Bless
This week was a week that I will always remember. This was 24/7 prayer week. When I first heard of this I was unclear what was expected and I thought oh boy.....a whole week of prayer this is going to be boring. Well.....I could not have been more wrong. The way it worked was all 28 of us including leaders each signed up to pray for an hour a day including the late hours into the night. The point was to always have someone in the prayer room 24/7 for the whole week. If someone forgot to go to their shift the person would be in the prayer room until someone else came so there was always someone in the prayer room. I thought praying for an hour would be long but it definitely was not. I prayed with people and by myself. God really showed me a lot in that prayer room. I think I learned how to listen to him. I would pray but think too, about him, and my life. I think he showed me how important encouragement and building up other people is. I really loved the week (even though we had A LOT of homework) and I think it brought so many of us closer together. This week at youth we had about talking to Jesus. There was quite a large number of youth and they didn’t really pay attention. They talked pretty much through his whole thing and it is hard to listen to because they just talk and do not listen when you tell them not to talk. So, I am praying for Stevie and hopefully seeds are at least being planted. In my small group we were able to have a bit more of a conversation which was good and an answer to prayer but sometimes it is still hard. We have two girls who know the lord and no most of the answers to the questions and the other ones don’t really care. They were however able to open up a bit and tell me more about their family life which was cool. They are just hurt and want attention. I am learning to really want to get to know the annoying ones and I think God is changing my attitude about them. We played games and had snack after that. That is always my favourite part and I like being to play and just have fun with the kids. We cleaned up at the end and went to McDonalds after for a treat! The rest of the week was good with continued prayer and a lot of homework. Sunday I had church I was down with the Jr. Church kids. I went around with the JKs and SKs so it was fun. They were cute. My helper was a girl from youth so that was cool. I already knew her she seemed happy that she got to be with me so that was nice. We played and I really enjoyed being with that age group they are so cute. Also this past week on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon I had QFX. QFX is where I am placed with another student with one staff member to experience their job and what it is like to work in camp ministry. I got placed with Haley working in the kitchen with the head cook Laura. It was so much fun!! We got to build a gingerbread train! It was a lot of fun and I really enjoyed working in the kitchen and seeing how things worked and her type of job. Overall this past week was pretty cool and I learned a lot. This week we have a Church Ministry class. Today was our first day and I really like it. It is much more interesting than I thought it would be. I like Dave and I think he is a good teacher. Anyway I hope everyone is doing good back in Ontario...has it snowed yet? It has sure rained here. Thank you for your prayers, please continue to pray for the Warmland kids!!!
God Bless
Monday, November 16, 2009
Hi everyone. November 16, 2009
This week has been a good and tiring week. We had Don Taylor fly in from Briercrest to teach us Old Testament Literature. This was my favourite class that we have had so far. I grew up homeschooled for the earlier years in my life and I was privileged enough to have Christian curriculum which consisted in learning a lot of the Old Testament bible stories. This course really expanded on all those stories that I loved so much and I learned so many new things that made the story seem not just like a story. I also learned so much more about the OT. I learned new stories and a lot more about the Prophets. The OT is really important to read because in order to understand a lot of the NT you need to read the OT. Most people think that the NT is just fine to read because it is so practical, but in order to fully understand the NT (the second part of the Bible) you need to read and understand the OT. I really enjoyed Don’s class and I really liked his teaching style. He was very organised and gave us lots of breaks to keep our focus on him and his teachings. During the week we had a class assignment to make a OT movie. It took a lot of work and some late nights but it turned out great and I thought it was really cool how we all worked together as a group and everyone took part in helping. I think it’s so important for everyone to help out and be able to work together with any of us in a community like this one. On Wednesday night I had youth. There were not too many kids there because it was Remembrance Day and most of them had P.A. day so I guess they assumed youth was off too......which it wasn’t. Stevie told them the gospel message and it was frustrating for me because I was sitting listening and it seemed like none of the kids were listening. They were flirting with each other and being silly and it made me sad. I feel like someone needs to explain to them the seriousness of fearing God and respecting leadership. In my small group there was only 4 girls but it made it so much easier to talk to them and lead. I asked some serious questions and I think one girl is saved and knows what it means to be born again but the other 3 just said exactly what all of the other girls said. When I asked if they thought they were born again they all just said yes. I am really enjoying getting to know the kids and playing games and stuff with them but I am finding it difficult to have deeper talks with them and to really be able to know their lives. I guess for now I can just love them and am as kind and fun to them as I can and of course pray for them constantly. My heart goes out to some of them. I shouldn’t get frustrated with them because they have probably never been taught the right way to behave. Sometimes seeing these kids and comparing them to how I grow up, I thank God that he blessed me into a Christian home where I was taught about Godly things and for the most part protected from this world. Please keep the kids from Warmland in your prayers this week. Please keep all the leaders and Stevie G in your prayers as well. Please pray for encouragement for him and the right messages and topics to talk to the kids about. On Sunday Church was cool. All of the Capenwray students took over and were in charge of a service. It was so encouraging to see God working through them and to have ministering at Warmland along with us. I have enjoyed getting to know some of them and it is cool to make friends outside of Kaleo too. Overall this week was very busy with class, all our homework, our movie project, and youth. I am enjoying being busy but please pray for strength and good health. Thanks for listening and God bless you all this week!!!!
This week has been a good and tiring week. We had Don Taylor fly in from Briercrest to teach us Old Testament Literature. This was my favourite class that we have had so far. I grew up homeschooled for the earlier years in my life and I was privileged enough to have Christian curriculum which consisted in learning a lot of the Old Testament bible stories. This course really expanded on all those stories that I loved so much and I learned so many new things that made the story seem not just like a story. I also learned so much more about the OT. I learned new stories and a lot more about the Prophets. The OT is really important to read because in order to understand a lot of the NT you need to read the OT. Most people think that the NT is just fine to read because it is so practical, but in order to fully understand the NT (the second part of the Bible) you need to read and understand the OT. I really enjoyed Don’s class and I really liked his teaching style. He was very organised and gave us lots of breaks to keep our focus on him and his teachings. During the week we had a class assignment to make a OT movie. It took a lot of work and some late nights but it turned out great and I thought it was really cool how we all worked together as a group and everyone took part in helping. I think it’s so important for everyone to help out and be able to work together with any of us in a community like this one. On Wednesday night I had youth. There were not too many kids there because it was Remembrance Day and most of them had P.A. day so I guess they assumed youth was off too......which it wasn’t. Stevie told them the gospel message and it was frustrating for me because I was sitting listening and it seemed like none of the kids were listening. They were flirting with each other and being silly and it made me sad. I feel like someone needs to explain to them the seriousness of fearing God and respecting leadership. In my small group there was only 4 girls but it made it so much easier to talk to them and lead. I asked some serious questions and I think one girl is saved and knows what it means to be born again but the other 3 just said exactly what all of the other girls said. When I asked if they thought they were born again they all just said yes. I am really enjoying getting to know the kids and playing games and stuff with them but I am finding it difficult to have deeper talks with them and to really be able to know their lives. I guess for now I can just love them and am as kind and fun to them as I can and of course pray for them constantly. My heart goes out to some of them. I shouldn’t get frustrated with them because they have probably never been taught the right way to behave. Sometimes seeing these kids and comparing them to how I grow up, I thank God that he blessed me into a Christian home where I was taught about Godly things and for the most part protected from this world. Please keep the kids from Warmland in your prayers this week. Please keep all the leaders and Stevie G in your prayers as well. Please pray for encouragement for him and the right messages and topics to talk to the kids about. On Sunday Church was cool. All of the Capenwray students took over and were in charge of a service. It was so encouraging to see God working through them and to have ministering at Warmland along with us. I have enjoyed getting to know some of them and it is cool to make friends outside of Kaleo too. Overall this week was very busy with class, all our homework, our movie project, and youth. I am enjoying being busy but please pray for strength and good health. Thanks for listening and God bless you all this week!!!!
Monday, November 9, 2009
Kaleo Blog #7
Hello everyone, November 9, 2009
This week was fun. We had reading week. It was nice to have a break and catch up on some sleep. We had quite a bit of work to do seeing as our Major Hermeneutics paper was due the Friday of reading week and all our OT pre-reading was due on Sunday. On Tuesday we had a trip into Victoria and it was really fun. The only other time I had been in Victoria occurred when I was seven and my parents went on a huge house hunting escapade so all my memories of Victoria trace back to this one trip and when we were walking on the streets of Victoria I saw the hotel we stayed at for 11 nights. It was funny and I took a picture for my parents. So Wednesday night I had youth. We had a lesson on anger and how Jesus got angry. I led the girls in a small group discussion after and there was one question that got a couple girls to open up. It was about family anger. It is still very hard because I feel like they have no respect for each other and they don’t care about what each other has to say. The only thing that matters is what they say. Please pray for the youth of Warmland. It is great that so many non-Christians come out to youth but I wish there could be some sort of sign of growth or interest. After we played more games and the games are really fun and I always feel like I get to know the kids better through the games. This week I was unable to attend Church because I was sick. I woke up Friday morning with flu-like symptoms and stayed in bed all day and then Sat morning I woke up and my body felt better but my face was huge. My ears were completely blown up and my cheeks were really puffy. All day I tried different drugs Benadryl, ibuprofen, etc. but nothing was bringing the swelling done. Sat night I went to the clinic in Chemainus. The doctor didn’t know anything and sent me home. I found it really hard being sick here. It is hard to have to privacy you want and when you are sick you just want to be at home in your own bed. I really called on God and he comforted me throughout my whole sick weekend. I really prayed that I would be well enough to go to class and that my face would go back to normal. Today is Monday and I feel so much better and my face is pretty much back to normal. Praise God. Please pray for strength for me as I still have a cold and I am not feeling 100%. I am really looking forward to the rest of this class. So far it has been great. Thank you for your prayers. God Bless!!
This week was fun. We had reading week. It was nice to have a break and catch up on some sleep. We had quite a bit of work to do seeing as our Major Hermeneutics paper was due the Friday of reading week and all our OT pre-reading was due on Sunday. On Tuesday we had a trip into Victoria and it was really fun. The only other time I had been in Victoria occurred when I was seven and my parents went on a huge house hunting escapade so all my memories of Victoria trace back to this one trip and when we were walking on the streets of Victoria I saw the hotel we stayed at for 11 nights. It was funny and I took a picture for my parents. So Wednesday night I had youth. We had a lesson on anger and how Jesus got angry. I led the girls in a small group discussion after and there was one question that got a couple girls to open up. It was about family anger. It is still very hard because I feel like they have no respect for each other and they don’t care about what each other has to say. The only thing that matters is what they say. Please pray for the youth of Warmland. It is great that so many non-Christians come out to youth but I wish there could be some sort of sign of growth or interest. After we played more games and the games are really fun and I always feel like I get to know the kids better through the games. This week I was unable to attend Church because I was sick. I woke up Friday morning with flu-like symptoms and stayed in bed all day and then Sat morning I woke up and my body felt better but my face was huge. My ears were completely blown up and my cheeks were really puffy. All day I tried different drugs Benadryl, ibuprofen, etc. but nothing was bringing the swelling done. Sat night I went to the clinic in Chemainus. The doctor didn’t know anything and sent me home. I found it really hard being sick here. It is hard to have to privacy you want and when you are sick you just want to be at home in your own bed. I really called on God and he comforted me throughout my whole sick weekend. I really prayed that I would be well enough to go to class and that my face would go back to normal. Today is Monday and I feel so much better and my face is pretty much back to normal. Praise God. Please pray for strength for me as I still have a cold and I am not feeling 100%. I am really looking forward to the rest of this class. So far it has been great. Thank you for your prayers. God Bless!!
Sunday, November 1, 2009
Kaleo blog #6
Hello Hello, November 1, 2009
I had a fantastic week. On Monday morning we left for our Surfing trip. On the way to Tofino we made some amazing stops. I have never experienced God's creation in the ways I have here at Kaleo. We first stopped through a huge forest with some of the biggest, oldest, and most beautiful trees I have ever seen. Then we had lunch while watching a rushing river rapid. It was beautiful. After we stopped at a lighthouse point and we went wave watching which was incredible. It was really windy and the waves were beautiful. The next day we went surfing and I had so much fun. I had never felt such power in the waves. It was at times scary but so amazing to see and feel God's amazing creation. We got home Wednesday night too late to go to youth. It was too bad we missed it but if we had to miss one it wasn’t that bad too miss because they were just carving pumpkins. There was no lesson or games planned. On Saturday a couple of Kaleo students and I had the opportunity to help set up activities for the Olympic torch in Crofton. We helped set up the tables, balloons, crafts, and decorate the community center for later that night. When the kids came we helped them with crafts and handing out hot chocolate and timbits. It was cool to help out because I actually knew a lot fo the kids from my church. It was nice to see the girls and talk to them about their week. It was cool to see so many familiar faces whether it was people from Qwanoes or kids from Warmland. Today we had church and a missionary from Tanzania came and preached about spreading ht gospel. It was inspiring to hear his stories. Tonight I went to the worship service at Warmland Centre. It was well done and I love worshiping the lord. I really like belonging to a church and being participating in all the different services and activities. God has blessed me and I feel like I am right where he wants me. Please pray for me and his upcoming week. I have a lot of work to do and I want to do the best I can. Thank you for your prayers and God Bless.
I had a fantastic week. On Monday morning we left for our Surfing trip. On the way to Tofino we made some amazing stops. I have never experienced God's creation in the ways I have here at Kaleo. We first stopped through a huge forest with some of the biggest, oldest, and most beautiful trees I have ever seen. Then we had lunch while watching a rushing river rapid. It was beautiful. After we stopped at a lighthouse point and we went wave watching which was incredible. It was really windy and the waves were beautiful. The next day we went surfing and I had so much fun. I had never felt such power in the waves. It was at times scary but so amazing to see and feel God's amazing creation. We got home Wednesday night too late to go to youth. It was too bad we missed it but if we had to miss one it wasn’t that bad too miss because they were just carving pumpkins. There was no lesson or games planned. On Saturday a couple of Kaleo students and I had the opportunity to help set up activities for the Olympic torch in Crofton. We helped set up the tables, balloons, crafts, and decorate the community center for later that night. When the kids came we helped them with crafts and handing out hot chocolate and timbits. It was cool to help out because I actually knew a lot fo the kids from my church. It was nice to see the girls and talk to them about their week. It was cool to see so many familiar faces whether it was people from Qwanoes or kids from Warmland. Today we had church and a missionary from Tanzania came and preached about spreading ht gospel. It was inspiring to hear his stories. Tonight I went to the worship service at Warmland Centre. It was well done and I love worshiping the lord. I really like belonging to a church and being participating in all the different services and activities. God has blessed me and I feel like I am right where he wants me. Please pray for me and his upcoming week. I have a lot of work to do and I want to do the best I can. Thank you for your prayers and God Bless.
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