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.
Sunday, January 31, 2010
Monday, January 25, 2010
I think i'm gonna die...
Kaléo Ministry:
We were dropped off at McDonald's for dinner and then we headed to youth. After spending about an hour between McDonald's and Safeway it was time to head on up to youth. None of us really wanted to go to youth that night seeing as how we just came back from 5 days on the hill snowboarding and skiing. We were still in our winter gear and we smelled (at least I did I don’t know about Katie and Ellie). We got there and we were having a games night, which means Pictionary, “knights, horses and prince”, snack, elbow tag and then sardines. I was surprised at how much fun I had, it was a great night overall. I was assigned to lead the devotional half way through the night, which turned out pretty good I thought. It was a good night to get back into the swing of things at youth group
At church the lady that pretty much slammed us, came up and apologized, and I think we smoothed things over a bit with all the Sunday school and how the scheduling is going to work. Once again I know that pastor Darin is going to be great for LFBC, which Darin actually wants to change the name of the church. Just one example of how much he wants to change the church. Trent just told me this Baptist joke the other day
How many Baptists does it take to change a light bulb?
Change?!
Kaléo Life:
As you know we just got back from a week on Mt. Washington shredding the gnar. It was fantastic! I snowboarded the first two days and decided that downhill skiing seemed much more natural for me, and easier to do, so I switched for Thursday/Friday. That was the best decision of my life. I was able to do bigger hills, and go faster with more control (except for when I hit that old lady).
Wednesday the majority of the group went snowshoeing around the mountain, while an intelligent few of us, and Jenna went cross-country skiing. So me and justin went skiing together while the rest of them were in a lesson, and blah blah blah we wound up on the top of boomerang (black diamond hellish) and blah blah blah we had fun and went down the downhill trails. For more information contact me. I don't know how many times i uttered the words "i think i'm gonna die."
During one of the chapels at night on the mountain, we were charged with renaming everyone else in Kaléo. We went through, and I was named “Gentle Ben”. These names were not meant to describe us now, in the present, but were more to serve as a name to grow into and challenge us. The names do reflect some of who we are now, but I think everyone came out a little bit scratching their heads, I know I was. Talking to JL and Sarah Badke about my name it has clarified a few points, and doing a little bit of word study has helped me come to a consensus about what it means to be gentle. In these conversations, more words, that are related have entered. Meekness. Humility. Faithfulness. Lowliness. Let’s see how these words play out through Kaléo and beyond!
Pray for:
1. Our missions trips, both Olympics and Mexico
2. Focus on God through the school and all the activities
3. Focus on school work
4. Let us all remember Haiti
We were dropped off at McDonald's for dinner and then we headed to youth. After spending about an hour between McDonald's and Safeway it was time to head on up to youth. None of us really wanted to go to youth that night seeing as how we just came back from 5 days on the hill snowboarding and skiing. We were still in our winter gear and we smelled (at least I did I don’t know about Katie and Ellie). We got there and we were having a games night, which means Pictionary, “knights, horses and prince”, snack, elbow tag and then sardines. I was surprised at how much fun I had, it was a great night overall. I was assigned to lead the devotional half way through the night, which turned out pretty good I thought. It was a good night to get back into the swing of things at youth group
At church the lady that pretty much slammed us, came up and apologized, and I think we smoothed things over a bit with all the Sunday school and how the scheduling is going to work. Once again I know that pastor Darin is going to be great for LFBC, which Darin actually wants to change the name of the church. Just one example of how much he wants to change the church. Trent just told me this Baptist joke the other day
How many Baptists does it take to change a light bulb?
Change?!
Kaléo Life:
As you know we just got back from a week on Mt. Washington shredding the gnar. It was fantastic! I snowboarded the first two days and decided that downhill skiing seemed much more natural for me, and easier to do, so I switched for Thursday/Friday. That was the best decision of my life. I was able to do bigger hills, and go faster with more control (except for when I hit that old lady).
Wednesday the majority of the group went snowshoeing around the mountain, while an intelligent few of us, and Jenna went cross-country skiing. So me and justin went skiing together while the rest of them were in a lesson, and blah blah blah we wound up on the top of boomerang (black diamond hellish) and blah blah blah we had fun and went down the downhill trails. For more information contact me. I don't know how many times i uttered the words "i think i'm gonna die."
During one of the chapels at night on the mountain, we were charged with renaming everyone else in Kaléo. We went through, and I was named “Gentle Ben”. These names were not meant to describe us now, in the present, but were more to serve as a name to grow into and challenge us. The names do reflect some of who we are now, but I think everyone came out a little bit scratching their heads, I know I was. Talking to JL and Sarah Badke about my name it has clarified a few points, and doing a little bit of word study has helped me come to a consensus about what it means to be gentle. In these conversations, more words, that are related have entered. Meekness. Humility. Faithfulness. Lowliness. Let’s see how these words play out through Kaléo and beyond!
Pray for:
1. Our missions trips, both Olympics and Mexico
2. Focus on God through the school and all the activities
3. Focus on school work
4. Let us all remember Haiti
Sunday, January 17, 2010
meh
Kaléo Ministry
An interesting event transpired after church to say the least. But first I’ll fill in the rest of youth and the service. Youth was canceled this week, and we weren’t able to go last week because of missions fest, or the week before, because we were still coming back home. And we won’t be able to go next week because of the Mt. Washington trip. At the start of January 2010 LFBC has a new pastor, Darin I forgot-his-last-name. He is good for the church, a young energetic and creative pastor. He should be able to shake up LFBC and bring in some younger people and create some new ministries while he is head pastor.
But after the service today , which we stayed for since it was our first time back, the coordinator of the Sunday school came up to us, and asked an innocent and logical question enough. “Were you guys supposed to be helping in Sunday school this week?” None of us knew since we gave her the schedule and forgot when we scheduled what. Next thing we know she goes off about how we were unprepared and how we should hav done this and that. She then responds “One, I must apologize I should have communicated better” or something like that and then she said “Two, I thought you were all adults, but I guess not, I guess I have to keep better tabs on you guys.” Wow. I know we’re in BC and 19 is an adult, and two of us were only 18, but really? It's our first week back, and we don’t have the schedule. Safe to say, we all found it quite, shall we say comical, well after church. I’m sure if you read Ellie’s or Katie’s blog it will be a much more theatrical version.
Kaléo Life
Well this week was pretty chill, maybe not as much as Minnesota, but you know with all that snow there and the wind chill. We had our exam for theology of mission, which went pretty good, feeling confident about the result, but I guess I just have to wait about two months. We then started the first two days of Jim’s class, Camp Ministry. I’m a bit hesitant to say anything about the class because the person that reads this sits two feet from the teacher.
My dilemma has been, solved, at roughly 4:30 on wed. the 13th I shaved my beard. Mixed reactions as expected, but I’m still not sure if it was the right decision. Only time will tell, and if I give it enough time, the beard will be back, so let’s just wait and see. That’s about it for this week.
Off to Mt. Washington for some snowboarding, skiing (cross country of course), tubing and hot tubbin’!
An interesting event transpired after church to say the least. But first I’ll fill in the rest of youth and the service. Youth was canceled this week, and we weren’t able to go last week because of missions fest, or the week before, because we were still coming back home. And we won’t be able to go next week because of the Mt. Washington trip. At the start of January 2010 LFBC has a new pastor, Darin I forgot-his-last-name. He is good for the church, a young energetic and creative pastor. He should be able to shake up LFBC and bring in some younger people and create some new ministries while he is head pastor.
But after the service today , which we stayed for since it was our first time back, the coordinator of the Sunday school came up to us, and asked an innocent and logical question enough. “Were you guys supposed to be helping in Sunday school this week?” None of us knew since we gave her the schedule and forgot when we scheduled what. Next thing we know she goes off about how we were unprepared and how we should hav done this and that. She then responds “One, I must apologize I should have communicated better” or something like that and then she said “Two, I thought you were all adults, but I guess not, I guess I have to keep better tabs on you guys.” Wow. I know we’re in BC and 19 is an adult, and two of us were only 18, but really? It's our first week back, and we don’t have the schedule. Safe to say, we all found it quite, shall we say comical, well after church. I’m sure if you read Ellie’s or Katie’s blog it will be a much more theatrical version.
Kaléo Life
Well this week was pretty chill, maybe not as much as Minnesota, but you know with all that snow there and the wind chill. We had our exam for theology of mission, which went pretty good, feeling confident about the result, but I guess I just have to wait about two months. We then started the first two days of Jim’s class, Camp Ministry. I’m a bit hesitant to say anything about the class because the person that reads this sits two feet from the teacher.
My dilemma has been, solved, at roughly 4:30 on wed. the 13th I shaved my beard. Mixed reactions as expected, but I’m still not sure if it was the right decision. Only time will tell, and if I give it enough time, the beard will be back, so let’s just wait and see. That’s about it for this week.
Off to Mt. Washington for some snowboarding, skiing (cross country of course), tubing and hot tubbin’!
Monday, January 11, 2010
EE TAOW! EE TAOW!
Ministry at Kaléo:
Over Christmas break turned out to be restful, relaxing and a good break from Kaléo, to appreciate it all the more when I came back. At home in the past, I have come back from missions trips, church, and camp only to drift and do nothing about the change in my life. This time though I was able to for the most part, not drift and was able to share with some old friends about what I was doing here and studying.
Coming back from missions fest, which is on the mainland, we had to take the ferry. On the ferry back over the spealers, we heard “if there is a doctor aboard, please come to the chief steward” this was 40 minutes into the ride, and then five minutes later we are heading back to horse show bay, where we had just come from. Apparently a man onboard had a heart attack. We had to turn around, but I think that within a few minutes of the announcement, most of Kaléo had prayed for that man and the passengers.
Today we had another Olympic meeting in preparation for our missions trip to the Olympics. We discussed what we want to pray for in the ensuing month for preparation. We discussed questions of how are we different than other volunteers, what do we offer that others don’t and how is this a missions trip and why the Olympics? There are many answers to all of these question, that I will probably answer in the upcoming weeks to our trip. It was a good meeting to really get us thinking and praying about what we are going to be doing, and to let god open up doors. Because the more we talk about it, the more excited I am about it, but I have to check my motives. Am I excited because I am going as Christ’s ambassador, or am I excited because I’m going to the Olympics? It is a question that has been on the forefront of my mind lately, and one that I intend to keep there.
Pray for: our next class with JimBad-camp ministry, the Olympic trip-focus, energy, boldness, that God would start preparing fellow volunteers, and spectators and our hearts. Pray also for our snowboard trip to Mt. Washington, that all goes well, we can enjoy each others compant, but above all that we will be a beacon of light to a dark world.
Kaléo Life:
“Mirror mirror on the wall is this not the most ridiculous beard of all?” But what to do with such a ridiculous beard? And is it a good or bad ridiculous? These are the musings that have ben going through my mind this past week. To shave or not to shave, that is the question. Hair is my dilemma, I am torn between the two, I just don’t know what to do.
We had the class Theology of Mission this past week, learning all about what mission is, what the scriptures say about it, how we can carry it out, how the church can better understand what it is and how they can develop it better in their churches. It was a great class to take and participate in and learn from Tim’s (the prof) experience. I pray and hope that we can all put our learning into practice within our churches here and when we head off to Mexico and the Olympics.
Immediately following class left for Missions Fest, a free conference devoted to the subject of Missions. With speakers and seminars and worship it was a revitalizing time with God and a great time getting back into Kaléo and being with Kaléo again. During missions fest, I found that my previously made statement, or more truthfully thought of “I’m never going to be on a long term missions trip” I saw that become untrue. Not to say I’m going on a trip or particularly feel called, but the door is not closed.
By the way we had a cougar sighting during the night as Haley and Marissa were walking back from the gym. It prompted a research and YouTube movies on cougars. We found they have a vertical of like 14 ft and a horizontal of like 20-40 ft. sketchy on the numbers, but something ridiculous like that.
Over Christmas break turned out to be restful, relaxing and a good break from Kaléo, to appreciate it all the more when I came back. At home in the past, I have come back from missions trips, church, and camp only to drift and do nothing about the change in my life. This time though I was able to for the most part, not drift and was able to share with some old friends about what I was doing here and studying.
Coming back from missions fest, which is on the mainland, we had to take the ferry. On the ferry back over the spealers, we heard “if there is a doctor aboard, please come to the chief steward” this was 40 minutes into the ride, and then five minutes later we are heading back to horse show bay, where we had just come from. Apparently a man onboard had a heart attack. We had to turn around, but I think that within a few minutes of the announcement, most of Kaléo had prayed for that man and the passengers.
Today we had another Olympic meeting in preparation for our missions trip to the Olympics. We discussed what we want to pray for in the ensuing month for preparation. We discussed questions of how are we different than other volunteers, what do we offer that others don’t and how is this a missions trip and why the Olympics? There are many answers to all of these question, that I will probably answer in the upcoming weeks to our trip. It was a good meeting to really get us thinking and praying about what we are going to be doing, and to let god open up doors. Because the more we talk about it, the more excited I am about it, but I have to check my motives. Am I excited because I am going as Christ’s ambassador, or am I excited because I’m going to the Olympics? It is a question that has been on the forefront of my mind lately, and one that I intend to keep there.
Pray for: our next class with JimBad-camp ministry, the Olympic trip-focus, energy, boldness, that God would start preparing fellow volunteers, and spectators and our hearts. Pray also for our snowboard trip to Mt. Washington, that all goes well, we can enjoy each others compant, but above all that we will be a beacon of light to a dark world.
Kaléo Life:
“Mirror mirror on the wall is this not the most ridiculous beard of all?” But what to do with such a ridiculous beard? And is it a good or bad ridiculous? These are the musings that have ben going through my mind this past week. To shave or not to shave, that is the question. Hair is my dilemma, I am torn between the two, I just don’t know what to do.
We had the class Theology of Mission this past week, learning all about what mission is, what the scriptures say about it, how we can carry it out, how the church can better understand what it is and how they can develop it better in their churches. It was a great class to take and participate in and learn from Tim’s (the prof) experience. I pray and hope that we can all put our learning into practice within our churches here and when we head off to Mexico and the Olympics.
Immediately following class left for Missions Fest, a free conference devoted to the subject of Missions. With speakers and seminars and worship it was a revitalizing time with God and a great time getting back into Kaléo and being with Kaléo again. During missions fest, I found that my previously made statement, or more truthfully thought of “I’m never going to be on a long term missions trip” I saw that become untrue. Not to say I’m going on a trip or particularly feel called, but the door is not closed.
By the way we had a cougar sighting during the night as Haley and Marissa were walking back from the gym. It prompted a research and YouTube movies on cougars. We found they have a vertical of like 14 ft and a horizontal of like 20-40 ft. sketchy on the numbers, but something ridiculous like that.
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