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.
Sunday, March 28, 2010
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!
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