A week of Eating

Ministry:

On wed. Jimbad came into our class after a break and told us that Duncan needed help sandbagging, and almost immediately, he had 25 willing students to go and help sandbag. You could argue that we just wanted to get out of class, but obviously you have not met Kaléo Seven. Fifteen minutes we all piled into two vans off to sandbag. We arrived and felt a bit stupid because there was already a group there and we had no shovels or any idea what to do, eventually we found ourselves battling against a mound of sand that never seemed to diminish. If it did, out of the darkness would come a sand truck to dump sand and bury our hops of progress. One of the vans left early, but the other half of us stayed another hour or so and wound up being there for about threeish hours. Then treated to hot chocolate and timbits. It was a time to show what the church is really about (not the eating the serving). Hopefully we have more opportunities to show this through the rest of the year.

This week at youth group I experienced something I had never experienced, 5-pin bowling. It was a bit ridiculous. To be able to palm the bowling ball and chuck it down with an insane amount of spin at five pins is something only the Canadians could think up. Us leaders also had a meeting to talk about what to do next year, and the topic of more devotionals came up. Insofar they have been pretty scarce due to so many activities and just traveling around the town and stuff.

Kaléo life:

US Americans had thanksgiving this past week with some other internationals from England and Australia. It was great we had “Gary,” really good stuffing, corn, rolls, mashed yams, magic cookies and pumpkin pie. I between first dessert and second dessert we went to the Ladysmith Light up. The light up is when they turn on all the Christmas lights in the city and have a parade down 1st ave. we then proceeded back to Amanda’s house to have second dessert.

Quite a bit less interesting is class. We just finished up foundations of church ministry, and had the final exam today, I failed by the way. We now have to write a paper on women in leadership roles in the church.

Lastly Rivera, Ellie and I ventured across to Thetis Island to pay a visit to Capenwray. Their campus is like an English country side in the 17th century. They even keep pigs and chickens that they feed with leftovers and at the end of the year, they eat them. We got to hear about a similar bible college program, they had their pros and their cons and so does Kaléo, but not for one second would I choose Capenwray over Kaléo. They have more classes, but don’t get graded for it, it sounds weird, but it makes sense. Safe to say that we all had a jolly good time.