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