Kaleo Ministry:
We did not have youth this week due to it being Easter weekend. This means this upcoming friday is our last friday! This also brings up the question that Katie asked the other day, as we were talking, "what change have we made in their lives?" This is a thought provoking question to say the least. What kind of example have we been to these kids, what will they remember about us? I will certainly remember them in my prayers.
Today's church service was sweet. There was a choir, the kids sang a song, all that good stuff. It was also a sweet sermon by Darin, all about linking OT prophecies and how they were fulfilled by Jesus in the NT. One more service at Lads!
Kaleo Life:
We had the class Christian Worldview this past week, which was a sweet class, and the last class! It was a great time of exploration of the Christian faith and other worldviews and how the North American mindset came about.
Friday night was a dark night, not only because we remember the brutal crucifixion of Jesus, but because our power was out. Saturday night (we had our power back) was a powerful night of watching the Passion of the Christ, and getting past the biblical incongruities I could see the power of the passion of Christ.
By far the best part of the week was our Passover dinner and Cedar. I have not done a Passover meal in several years and it was great to do it in such a great community. You could really see the closeness the disciples must have felt during that meal. The food was delicious and the dessert was incredible. It was a sweet experience and I wish I could do it every year.
oh and by the way, there's only 13 days left! Crazy!
Sunday, April 4, 2010
Sunday, March 28, 2010
Same Place, New Experience
Kaléo Ministry:
This week I was not able to go to either youth or church because I was working the juniors retreat here at Qwanoes. I was on the all-stars team with Stevie-G and some kaleos leading and helping out with games and the such. I was one busy bee though this week. Friday night I was working parking/traffic (reminiscent of the Olympics), helped out that night with the games there, the power point. Saturday I worked the wide games, power point, challenge course, more games, and then Sunday I did more games, more power point, more traffic and a small bit of dishes. Overall it was quite tiring and exhausting (not as much as counseling though) but really fun and a blast.
Kaléo Life:
This week we had a sweet time out in Ucluelet surfing. We got to see more sites than last time we went, like south beach another beach which I forgot the name of, but they were both beautiful! The surfing was much more fun because we had some practice, it was easier for me to stand up and ride some waves, but at the end of the second day I was just playing in the waves and got pushed by one, well two waves continuously for about 50-60 feet without doing a thing! It was so sweet!
On Friday Michelle and Chantelle (delegates from B-Crest) came and interviewed everyone. It was quite helpful in the decision making process and got some answers to questions that have been on my mind.
This week I was not able to go to either youth or church because I was working the juniors retreat here at Qwanoes. I was on the all-stars team with Stevie-G and some kaleos leading and helping out with games and the such. I was one busy bee though this week. Friday night I was working parking/traffic (reminiscent of the Olympics), helped out that night with the games there, the power point. Saturday I worked the wide games, power point, challenge course, more games, and then Sunday I did more games, more power point, more traffic and a small bit of dishes. Overall it was quite tiring and exhausting (not as much as counseling though) but really fun and a blast.
Kaléo Life:
This week we had a sweet time out in Ucluelet surfing. We got to see more sites than last time we went, like south beach another beach which I forgot the name of, but they were both beautiful! The surfing was much more fun because we had some practice, it was easier for me to stand up and ride some waves, but at the end of the second day I was just playing in the waves and got pushed by one, well two waves continuously for about 50-60 feet without doing a thing! It was so sweet!
On Friday Michelle and Chantelle (delegates from B-Crest) came and interviewed everyone. It was quite helpful in the decision making process and got some answers to questions that have been on my mind.
Monday, March 22, 2010
The Count Down Begins, Move! Move! Move!
Kaléo Ministry:
Pretty usual, we went swimming this Friday at the FJCC (Frank Jameson Community Center). It is my prayer that in these last few the three of us can start to see a change in the lives of the youth we have been interacting with. Even if we do not I pray that the influence of Natasha, the youth director, will continue and the next year’s Kaléos can shape them as well. As Kaléo is winding down, we only have two more youth nights, (due to working a weekend here at qwanoes). Pray for change in these last two weeks, that God will be moving.
This Sunday I found out our new name, Ocean View Community Church. This church will forever in my mind be LFBC! Lads! This just goes to show this church is in transition from old to new. The congregation is getting more enthused with the preaching and the missions work they are planning to do. They are hosting a missions weekend this weekend with a missionary couple from Brazil coming in.
This week nothing too exciting happened, just helped out with the youth Sunday school class with Vince, and then hit up our favorite Pentecostal church across town.
I almost forgot, I went to “The Bridge” on Sunday. This is just a Sunday night worship with an informal preach/teach/ask questions with the pastor of Cobble Hill. I wasn’t planning on going, but somebody had to drive stick!
Kaléo Life:
We went snowboarding, well I went skiing, but most people went snowboarding. What a great day outside, clear blue skies, great views from the top of the mountain, great snow by the end of the day. Just a stupendous, glorious, fabulous, magnificent, amazing, superb (you get the point) day out in God’s creation.
This week has been one of the more active weeks in the past few months. We had DTG (ditch the gender) where I ran way more than expected, did indoor climbing, snowboarding, played soccer, street hockey twice and volleyball.
All was not fun and games here in Crofton, BC. Oh no, I cranked out two papers this week, one which due date was 5:30pm, and I handed it in at exactly 5:30:00. Beautiful. The other I finished with a good 45 minutes left to spare. Not so Beautiful.
Biggest news of this week…GYM NIGHT! WOOHOO! I’ve been waiting three weeks for this.
Oh and we’re going surfing for three days, starting tomorrow.
Pretty usual, we went swimming this Friday at the FJCC (Frank Jameson Community Center). It is my prayer that in these last few the three of us can start to see a change in the lives of the youth we have been interacting with. Even if we do not I pray that the influence of Natasha, the youth director, will continue and the next year’s Kaléos can shape them as well. As Kaléo is winding down, we only have two more youth nights, (due to working a weekend here at qwanoes). Pray for change in these last two weeks, that God will be moving.
This Sunday I found out our new name, Ocean View Community Church. This church will forever in my mind be LFBC! Lads! This just goes to show this church is in transition from old to new. The congregation is getting more enthused with the preaching and the missions work they are planning to do. They are hosting a missions weekend this weekend with a missionary couple from Brazil coming in.
This week nothing too exciting happened, just helped out with the youth Sunday school class with Vince, and then hit up our favorite Pentecostal church across town.
I almost forgot, I went to “The Bridge” on Sunday. This is just a Sunday night worship with an informal preach/teach/ask questions with the pastor of Cobble Hill. I wasn’t planning on going, but somebody had to drive stick!
Kaléo Life:
We went snowboarding, well I went skiing, but most people went snowboarding. What a great day outside, clear blue skies, great views from the top of the mountain, great snow by the end of the day. Just a stupendous, glorious, fabulous, magnificent, amazing, superb (you get the point) day out in God’s creation.
This week has been one of the more active weeks in the past few months. We had DTG (ditch the gender) where I ran way more than expected, did indoor climbing, snowboarding, played soccer, street hockey twice and volleyball.
All was not fun and games here in Crofton, BC. Oh no, I cranked out two papers this week, one which due date was 5:30pm, and I handed it in at exactly 5:30:00. Beautiful. The other I finished with a good 45 minutes left to spare. Not so Beautiful.
Biggest news of this week…GYM NIGHT! WOOHOO! I’ve been waiting three weeks for this.
Oh and we’re going surfing for three days, starting tomorrow.
Monday, March 15, 2010
Overload!
Kaléo Ministry:
This week, it was our time to lead the youth group. Katie, Ellie and I decided to make it 70’s night! So I threw on some sandals, tie-dye shirt, rolled up jeans, bandana over Ellie’s hippie wig, and headed out with Katie and Ellie, looking ridiculously 70’s. We played, four on a couch, hot potato, which quickly degraded into hot half potato as the potato got smashed into one of the chairs and was dropped on the floor. After, we headed over to Macdonald’s for ice cream and then back to the church for some sardines.
Oh did I mention that this was the night that we had four new kids? Yeah they think we’re all weirdos. I don’t blame ‘em. But they didn’t really know much about youth groups or Christianity at all, so it was cool to explain to them about some stuff. Like the baptismal tank, which they thought was a hot tub.
We also got interviewed at church during service about the Olympics. It was a good time of sharing, and tied perfectly in with the sermon that day. It was especially fun to see the old timers get excited about it, and what we did at the Olympics.
Kaléo Life:
Gospels. That’s the only word you really need to know about this week. I did make it to a record three breakfasts this past week. We were in class from 9-12:30 with a different break system, which I found great, and then from 1:30-5 or 5:15. Every day for five days. This was an intense class, with a ridiculous prof. He had a Greek Bible, and read from it to us in English. Crazy! When we weren’t in class gorging out on way too much information, we were trying to digest all of it.
The last thing about Gospels was the exam which we had today, 2,009 words in two hours. It was quite the exam, and quite the study prep.
Lastly, and most tragically, on Monday we did not have gym night! It was a travesty. But it’s ok, because I did enough mental activity to make up for the lack of physical activity.
This week, it was our time to lead the youth group. Katie, Ellie and I decided to make it 70’s night! So I threw on some sandals, tie-dye shirt, rolled up jeans, bandana over Ellie’s hippie wig, and headed out with Katie and Ellie, looking ridiculously 70’s. We played, four on a couch, hot potato, which quickly degraded into hot half potato as the potato got smashed into one of the chairs and was dropped on the floor. After, we headed over to Macdonald’s for ice cream and then back to the church for some sardines.
Oh did I mention that this was the night that we had four new kids? Yeah they think we’re all weirdos. I don’t blame ‘em. But they didn’t really know much about youth groups or Christianity at all, so it was cool to explain to them about some stuff. Like the baptismal tank, which they thought was a hot tub.
We also got interviewed at church during service about the Olympics. It was a good time of sharing, and tied perfectly in with the sermon that day. It was especially fun to see the old timers get excited about it, and what we did at the Olympics.
Kaléo Life:
Gospels. That’s the only word you really need to know about this week. I did make it to a record three breakfasts this past week. We were in class from 9-12:30 with a different break system, which I found great, and then from 1:30-5 or 5:15. Every day for five days. This was an intense class, with a ridiculous prof. He had a Greek Bible, and read from it to us in English. Crazy! When we weren’t in class gorging out on way too much information, we were trying to digest all of it.
The last thing about Gospels was the exam which we had today, 2,009 words in two hours. It was quite the exam, and quite the study prep.
Lastly, and most tragically, on Monday we did not have gym night! It was a travesty. But it’s ok, because I did enough mental activity to make up for the lack of physical activity.
Sunday, March 7, 2010
Hello Again Mr. Blog
Olympics:
Jim Badke would be sorely disappointed in me if I just said the Olympics were great. He wants us to tell stories. Although there are many stories to tell, many of which aren’t mine I will tell you some of which are mine.
The first few days were a struggle for me because the times I was by myself I said to myself “this sucks I can’t see anything, or anyone” and I did not focus on why I was there. After the second day I spent some time in the prayer room we had erected in the church and started praying, and stumbled onto the thought of why I was here. I was at the Olympics to pray and talk to people, if I wasn’t praying, then I should be talking and vice versa. I wasn’t doing that at all, so the third day I was put in a very isolated spot and was like “Yes! Now I can just pray” and so I did. The third day was great.
It was amazing how fast Christianity came up in conversations, I would be on the bus from the top of the track to the bottom and I would be telling the driver why I’m a Christian and what I’m doing here, at school, etc. The best was watching people react when they heard I’m a Christian, it was either, “oh, really?” or “right on! Keep going, keep doing that. There’s not enough young people like that”
It was also interesting hearing about people’s connection with Christianity even though they aren’t Christians. I met a girl who majored in Buddhism and Phenomenalism, and took two years of Christianity. I met another woman (at the hockey game) who took classes in Biblical archaeology and the such for a year. Talking with them, it was very interesting.
Now on our days off we did some hiking. We went to Shannon Falls, and hiked in and around the falls, and kind of getting “lost.” We climbed all three peaks of The Chief, which was “one big rock” as Jim called it. We also walked out onto a spit into the ocean after driving on one the bumpier roads I’ve ridden. Then walking on a wooden platform, that was pretty narrow, but we had log posts to hold onto. I also won free tickets to a hockey game ( Swiss Vs. Norway). Matthew and I went down to Vancouver, which was “like Tokyo except with white people” as Matthew described it.
Overall it was great.
Regular Kaléo Ministry:
1. Youth was a fun time. The highlight was by far the Eno and Sprite. Eno is like an alcasalzer, so makes things fizzy, and when mixed with fizzy pop, we’re talking a lot of fizz. Now combine all that with the kids’ mouth. We tried to see how could hold it in the longest, it was hilarious. Next week Katie, Ellie and I are leading it, so let’s see how it turns out.
2. Church was sweet. Stayed in the service and learned about conflict resolution in the Christ-like way, then went to our “second” church and learned about family, of both the body of Christ and immediate. I say our “second” church because the other church in Ladysmith starts later than ours, and ours is short, so we basically get two sermons a week!
Kaléo Life:
Homework – theology paper (Dichotomy Vs. Trichotomy)
Reading- four gospels and textbook about gospels, very interesting reading together.
The beach! – We all headed over to Mystic Beach, near Victoria, on the west side of the island and chilled on the beach with a beautifully sunny clear day. It was early march and I was playing soccer on the beach with no shoes, no shirt and shorts on! What a great day!
Time for Gospels!
Jim Badke would be sorely disappointed in me if I just said the Olympics were great. He wants us to tell stories. Although there are many stories to tell, many of which aren’t mine I will tell you some of which are mine.
The first few days were a struggle for me because the times I was by myself I said to myself “this sucks I can’t see anything, or anyone” and I did not focus on why I was there. After the second day I spent some time in the prayer room we had erected in the church and started praying, and stumbled onto the thought of why I was here. I was at the Olympics to pray and talk to people, if I wasn’t praying, then I should be talking and vice versa. I wasn’t doing that at all, so the third day I was put in a very isolated spot and was like “Yes! Now I can just pray” and so I did. The third day was great.
It was amazing how fast Christianity came up in conversations, I would be on the bus from the top of the track to the bottom and I would be telling the driver why I’m a Christian and what I’m doing here, at school, etc. The best was watching people react when they heard I’m a Christian, it was either, “oh, really?” or “right on! Keep going, keep doing that. There’s not enough young people like that”
It was also interesting hearing about people’s connection with Christianity even though they aren’t Christians. I met a girl who majored in Buddhism and Phenomenalism, and took two years of Christianity. I met another woman (at the hockey game) who took classes in Biblical archaeology and the such for a year. Talking with them, it was very interesting.
Now on our days off we did some hiking. We went to Shannon Falls, and hiked in and around the falls, and kind of getting “lost.” We climbed all three peaks of The Chief, which was “one big rock” as Jim called it. We also walked out onto a spit into the ocean after driving on one the bumpier roads I’ve ridden. Then walking on a wooden platform, that was pretty narrow, but we had log posts to hold onto. I also won free tickets to a hockey game ( Swiss Vs. Norway). Matthew and I went down to Vancouver, which was “like Tokyo except with white people” as Matthew described it.
Overall it was great.
Regular Kaléo Ministry:
1. Youth was a fun time. The highlight was by far the Eno and Sprite. Eno is like an alcasalzer, so makes things fizzy, and when mixed with fizzy pop, we’re talking a lot of fizz. Now combine all that with the kids’ mouth. We tried to see how could hold it in the longest, it was hilarious. Next week Katie, Ellie and I are leading it, so let’s see how it turns out.
2. Church was sweet. Stayed in the service and learned about conflict resolution in the Christ-like way, then went to our “second” church and learned about family, of both the body of Christ and immediate. I say our “second” church because the other church in Ladysmith starts later than ours, and ours is short, so we basically get two sermons a week!
Kaléo Life:
Homework – theology paper (Dichotomy Vs. Trichotomy)
Reading- four gospels and textbook about gospels, very interesting reading together.
The beach! – We all headed over to Mystic Beach, near Victoria, on the west side of the island and chilled on the beach with a beautifully sunny clear day. It was early march and I was playing soccer on the beach with no shoes, no shirt and shorts on! What a great day!
Time for Gospels!
Monday, February 8, 2010
I'm Off!
Kaléo ministry:
This week at youth we had a talent show. Hmmm what exhibitable talents do I have? Laffy Taffy jokes! I didn’t a little bit of joke telling as my “talent.” Katie and Ellie did a dance to Thriller, which was hilarious, but in an impressed way. Other acts included singing, dancing, juggling both balls and with a soccer ball. My personal favorite was a kid trying to slice a peeled banana in half with a deck of cards. He could only get the top off, and dig the cards into the banana about half way, so because he couldn’t quite pull it off, he had to eat it with me feeding it to him with my feet.
Church was the same ole same ole. No invites to go to eat, but Marissa, Katie and I did go for a stroll through the cemetery, which is across the street from the church. This will be our last youth group and church service for the next three weeks while we are at the Olympics.
Kaléo Life:
We had two note worthy events this past week, one: the 48 hour prayer session in prep for both Mexico and the Olympics, and two: theology class with Jim Paulson. The prayer room, I only got to be in once, but it was still very beneficial in prepping for the Olympics. It really helped us get focused on what is important and why we are doing these missions trips.
Our theology class was HILARIOUS. Jim would say some of the funniest things that I’ve ever heard a teacher or prof. ever utter. Our K7 blog has about all of them thanks to James’ hard work during class. On a more serious note, we got to delve into some pretty deep topics, and talk and wrestling with theology. Jim seems to be very open-minded about his position on everything. He was very humble in what we had to say, and even though he is about 50ish he seemed very open to change his mind on topics as his study and devotion developed. I have come to the realization that this class has just dumped a slew of ideas into my head and I am left to sort through them in the intervening months and years.
Please keep both the Olympics and Mexico in your prayers:
1. Energy, strength
2. Focus on what is important, God
3. That we will have many conversations talking about You, Lord
4. We will stay in prayer and reading of the Bible throughout our time in Mexico and Vancouver
This week at youth we had a talent show. Hmmm what exhibitable talents do I have? Laffy Taffy jokes! I didn’t a little bit of joke telling as my “talent.” Katie and Ellie did a dance to Thriller, which was hilarious, but in an impressed way. Other acts included singing, dancing, juggling both balls and with a soccer ball. My personal favorite was a kid trying to slice a peeled banana in half with a deck of cards. He could only get the top off, and dig the cards into the banana about half way, so because he couldn’t quite pull it off, he had to eat it with me feeding it to him with my feet.
Church was the same ole same ole. No invites to go to eat, but Marissa, Katie and I did go for a stroll through the cemetery, which is across the street from the church. This will be our last youth group and church service for the next three weeks while we are at the Olympics.
Kaléo Life:
We had two note worthy events this past week, one: the 48 hour prayer session in prep for both Mexico and the Olympics, and two: theology class with Jim Paulson. The prayer room, I only got to be in once, but it was still very beneficial in prepping for the Olympics. It really helped us get focused on what is important and why we are doing these missions trips.
Our theology class was HILARIOUS. Jim would say some of the funniest things that I’ve ever heard a teacher or prof. ever utter. Our K7 blog has about all of them thanks to James’ hard work during class. On a more serious note, we got to delve into some pretty deep topics, and talk and wrestling with theology. Jim seems to be very open-minded about his position on everything. He was very humble in what we had to say, and even though he is about 50ish he seemed very open to change his mind on topics as his study and devotion developed. I have come to the realization that this class has just dumped a slew of ideas into my head and I am left to sort through them in the intervening months and years.
Please keep both the Olympics and Mexico in your prayers:
1. Energy, strength
2. Focus on what is important, God
3. That we will have many conversations talking about You, Lord
4. We will stay in prayer and reading of the Bible throughout our time in Mexico and Vancouver
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Calm Before the Storm
Kaléo ministries
This week we were able we were back into our normal routine, except not really. We had youth here at qwanoes along with all the rest of the youth groups in the cowichan valley (except one church). Safe to say no one knew exactly what was going to happen, or how anything would turn out, but it turned out great. The game was fun, the singing was great, and our very own intern, Justin Lenny, was our speaker who did a fantastic job. Yes, it was a gong show, but one that worked.
Last week at church, an old lady that I was sitting next to, said she had a strong’s concordance that she didn’t want, and was willing to give away. This week she brought it and gave it to me, a very useful and nice gift. Don’t you just love old people? I think all three of us had a great time at church today. Katie was in the service and found it a great sermon, Ellie was with the pre-schoolers and found that enjoyable. I was with the 2nd-4th grader class, and that was a fun time with the kids. To top it off, we went to Bethel Tabernacle, to pick up the other Kaléo’s and followed through with an invite to Tim Horton’s from a very generous man from the church.
We had another Olympic meeting this week, which was very short, where we mainly talked about logistics and all that jazz. We also talked about excitements, worries, encouragements, basically just got all our thoughts out into the open concerning the Olympics. We prayed and talked about how this trip is going to be about intentionality. It is going to be much easier on this trip to not be intentional about sharing Jesus with others, and that is why this trip must be intentional.
Kaléo Life
This past week we had been engrossed in schoolwork. We had Jim’s class, Camp Ministry. We mainly were bogged down with our church committee paper, in which we have to write about a church from the standpoint of a missions committee. We also had, and well I guess still do have to read 210 pages of Christian doctrine. It’s all very interesting, and great to learn, but there’s a lot to read! But it’s still fun. I also went over to the Badke’s house about 3-4 times this week, once even when they weren’t there. Let us all thank them for their knowing and unknowing hospitality. Lastly we had our second weekly meeting with Capernwray at Macdonald’s. We’re trying to go back for another Sunday dinner, except with some more people.
Pray for:
1. Olympics, not only leading up to them, but while we are there
2. Ministries here in crofton and in the Cowichan valley
3. Concentration and sponge-like minds for Intro to Theology this week.
4. Guidance for this summer, and upcoming fall semester.
This week we were able we were back into our normal routine, except not really. We had youth here at qwanoes along with all the rest of the youth groups in the cowichan valley (except one church). Safe to say no one knew exactly what was going to happen, or how anything would turn out, but it turned out great. The game was fun, the singing was great, and our very own intern, Justin Lenny, was our speaker who did a fantastic job. Yes, it was a gong show, but one that worked.
Last week at church, an old lady that I was sitting next to, said she had a strong’s concordance that she didn’t want, and was willing to give away. This week she brought it and gave it to me, a very useful and nice gift. Don’t you just love old people? I think all three of us had a great time at church today. Katie was in the service and found it a great sermon, Ellie was with the pre-schoolers and found that enjoyable. I was with the 2nd-4th grader class, and that was a fun time with the kids. To top it off, we went to Bethel Tabernacle, to pick up the other Kaléo’s and followed through with an invite to Tim Horton’s from a very generous man from the church.
We had another Olympic meeting this week, which was very short, where we mainly talked about logistics and all that jazz. We also talked about excitements, worries, encouragements, basically just got all our thoughts out into the open concerning the Olympics. We prayed and talked about how this trip is going to be about intentionality. It is going to be much easier on this trip to not be intentional about sharing Jesus with others, and that is why this trip must be intentional.
Kaléo Life
This past week we had been engrossed in schoolwork. We had Jim’s class, Camp Ministry. We mainly were bogged down with our church committee paper, in which we have to write about a church from the standpoint of a missions committee. We also had, and well I guess still do have to read 210 pages of Christian doctrine. It’s all very interesting, and great to learn, but there’s a lot to read! But it’s still fun. I also went over to the Badke’s house about 3-4 times this week, once even when they weren’t there. Let us all thank them for their knowing and unknowing hospitality. Lastly we had our second weekly meeting with Capernwray at Macdonald’s. We’re trying to go back for another Sunday dinner, except with some more people.
Pray for:
1. Olympics, not only leading up to them, but while we are there
2. Ministries here in crofton and in the Cowichan valley
3. Concentration and sponge-like minds for Intro to Theology this week.
4. Guidance for this summer, and upcoming fall semester.
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