hey guys... so i havent blogged in 1.5 weeks and thats pretty bad for me. normally i like to keep up with my blog on a regular basis and 1.5 weeks is too long. soo much has been happening since i got back from teen camp that i didnt really know what to blog on, but i guess i will just mention what has been happening:
1) We started our kids program here at Xculture called Kids Games and its been great. we had scottish soccer players teach our kids how to play soccer the 1st week... sooo amazing! they were great guys.
2) The officers for Xculture finally arrived and they are amazing people. Pete and Marnie are 2 people following God with all their heart and its great. Marnie has challenged me soooooo much to just really get into what God has for my life in the next 5.5 weeks here in Canada.
3) I have been challenged massively from Marnie and its been great. i have been made to think about where i am at and challenged to change and grow and i sooo desire to change alot of stuff at the moment. of course its also been super hard, and i have cried alot of tears, but its been great. Marnie is someone i admire and look up to alot.
4) This week i have done rations (or devos) 3 out 4 days this week. what a record!!!! and i am loving it!
5) I preached my first sermon at a church on sunday and it went fairly well. had some good feedback. so praise God for obediance and also praise him for giving me the words to say.
6) I am going home in 5.5 weeks. i am gonna miss my friends here soooo much but i am relieved that i am almost going home. its exciting!!!
well my life has been hard, but great the past 1.5 weeks. I hope and pray that God reveals more and more to me as time goes on.
Thursday, July 19, 2007
Sunday, July 8, 2007
Teen camp!
Teen camp was amazing... i could go on and on about it. my girls were amazing and it was cool to see them grow heaps and heaps! there was reconciliation between Aysha and Crystal Lozie, which was awesome as!! best part of teen camp. i dont wanna go into detail about it, but i have added a couple of photos. here are a couple of my good friends.... Top photo is Carlye, me and Caitlyn... then in the bottom photo, the girl in the grey singlet and the black shorts is Jill Touzeau. they were the amazing women that i made friends with. some of the guys included Mark and Mike Touzeau and Mark Armstrong and Conner... ohhh i just miss everyone sooo much. i dont know what it is about this camp that makes me really really miss everyone. maybe its cuz i know i wont see any of these people for a very long time... and it makes me soooo sad.
God did amazing things in those teens. on Tuesday night, he called me to give a hard word to the whole camp about apathy and flirting during worship... that was hard but i was obediant and God did amazing stuff through it. also got to see some major reconciliation happen in the teen cell girls which really needed to happen. sooo much happened, not enough room to say it all.
activities were amazing.... mud wrestling, flour bomb war, paintballing etc. was awesome as!!!
sooo time for some more photos... lets see what i have here..... i will put more up, but we shall see what i have here. ok so 1st photo is some of the gang that came, the next photo is of kyle and mark touzeau and then the last photo is of conner.... amazing amazing ppl... should all get to know them!
Thursday, June 28, 2007
Politics!
Ok so for those of you who know me really well, u know i am not into politics at all and i think they are all a bunch of liars and we cant trust any of them. BUT.... i went to a council chamber meeting today. u will be proud to know, i sat through 4 hrs of a meeting and didnt fall asleep!!! i went to support Aaron and one of my teen cell girls Hannah as they were speaking at this meeting. the bulk of the agenda was 33 people speaking to the council to get them to give money to build the 3200 social housing units they PROMISED Vancouver when we won the bid for the Olympics. they promised this and now they are saying there isnt enough money to build all of these 3200 rooms/units etc for low income housing to eliminate homelessness.
it was really interesting cuz i actually got what people were saying and understood it cuz i see it everyday. Aaron and Hannah did a really really good job speaking on behalf of our friends down here, as did lots of other people. but to me, it wasnt really politics. this is people fighting the injustices.
i was very annoyed at some parts of it. the Mayor left for most of it, was not there to hear people. it just shows how apathetic he is towards this issue and its very sad. the chairperson was an interesting lady. it was funny, cuz from the start, she said it would go for recess at 6:00 if we are still going. when 6:00 rolled around, all the speeches were done, there were a few questions from the chamber ppl and then they would have voted. 30 mins longer, but she still wanted recess. one of the guys in there moved for a motion to not have recess but she was very adament in her prior agreement. in her words, she said " We already made a prior agreement to have recess, so we will have recess".... i am like "HELLO, WHAT ABOUT THE PRIOR AGREEMENT TO HAVE 3200 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS BUILT!!!!". wish i could yell that out. pity they cant keep all their agreements, only the ones that suit them!!!!!
needless to say, it was really interesting and worthwhile!
it was really interesting cuz i actually got what people were saying and understood it cuz i see it everyday. Aaron and Hannah did a really really good job speaking on behalf of our friends down here, as did lots of other people. but to me, it wasnt really politics. this is people fighting the injustices.
i was very annoyed at some parts of it. the Mayor left for most of it, was not there to hear people. it just shows how apathetic he is towards this issue and its very sad. the chairperson was an interesting lady. it was funny, cuz from the start, she said it would go for recess at 6:00 if we are still going. when 6:00 rolled around, all the speeches were done, there were a few questions from the chamber ppl and then they would have voted. 30 mins longer, but she still wanted recess. one of the guys in there moved for a motion to not have recess but she was very adament in her prior agreement. in her words, she said " We already made a prior agreement to have recess, so we will have recess".... i am like "HELLO, WHAT ABOUT THE PRIOR AGREEMENT TO HAVE 3200 SOCIAL HOUSING UNITS BUILT!!!!". wish i could yell that out. pity they cant keep all their agreements, only the ones that suit them!!!!!
needless to say, it was really interesting and worthwhile!
Monday, June 25, 2007
Being Stretched
well i have been sitting here for awhile thinking of what to say... and i thought i would just say 2 things:
1) I am at New West for a few days getting away from Xculture cuz i need more sleep than 6 hrs a night, so i am hanging out, chilling and relaxing at the officers house out here. its fun.
2) Thanks to my good friend Holly and her weekly update to the session, i have decided i want to be stretched more so i can grow more in Christ.
That is all... i dont know whether anyone actually reads my blog anymore, hmmm....
1) I am at New West for a few days getting away from Xculture cuz i need more sleep than 6 hrs a night, so i am hanging out, chilling and relaxing at the officers house out here. its fun.
2) Thanks to my good friend Holly and her weekly update to the session, i have decided i want to be stretched more so i can grow more in Christ.
That is all... i dont know whether anyone actually reads my blog anymore, hmmm....
Tuesday, June 19, 2007
Our Father
Well firstly, just a side note about my cat. he was spotted yesterday near our house but it seems he doesnt want to come home. maybe he just knows i am not there... he he. kidding. Pray that he comes home. then we will lock him in the house for awhile.
well yesterday i was at the Whites just hanging out with the kids and we were watching The Lion King. i dont think i have seen that since i was like 12 yrs old or something. obviously i wasnt a Christian, but now i have watched it from an older, more spiritual perspective and i never knew how spiritual that movie is. there was 1 line in it that fully got me and made me think alot. it was after Simba's father had died and Simba had just met that crazy monkey/babboon character who told him that his father was still with him and he ran out into the field and Mufusa came like a cloud. and this is what he said to Simba " YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME BECAUSE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO YOU ARE."
One thing this year that i have been doing is finding out who i am in Christ. and its been an interesting journey. right from day 1 i have been learning new stuff about me and learning about my capabilities in Christ and my gifts he has given me and stuff like that. and sometimes i lose myself in the world, by longing to fit in and trying to be like everyone else. i forget who i am because i add myself to the messy big blob that is the world and i just kinda make myself fit in and look like everyone else. i am not set apart. when that happens, i totally forget truly who God is in my life.
so the moral of this blog is, DONT CONFORM TO THE PATTERN OF THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.
do you want to be in the big messy blob and forget your father or do you want to be set apart from the world, living truly who you were made to be and remembering your father?? i know which one i want.
well yesterday i was at the Whites just hanging out with the kids and we were watching The Lion King. i dont think i have seen that since i was like 12 yrs old or something. obviously i wasnt a Christian, but now i have watched it from an older, more spiritual perspective and i never knew how spiritual that movie is. there was 1 line in it that fully got me and made me think alot. it was after Simba's father had died and Simba had just met that crazy monkey/babboon character who told him that his father was still with him and he ran out into the field and Mufusa came like a cloud. and this is what he said to Simba " YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN ME BECAUSE YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN WHO YOU ARE."
One thing this year that i have been doing is finding out who i am in Christ. and its been an interesting journey. right from day 1 i have been learning new stuff about me and learning about my capabilities in Christ and my gifts he has given me and stuff like that. and sometimes i lose myself in the world, by longing to fit in and trying to be like everyone else. i forget who i am because i add myself to the messy big blob that is the world and i just kinda make myself fit in and look like everyone else. i am not set apart. when that happens, i totally forget truly who God is in my life.
so the moral of this blog is, DONT CONFORM TO THE PATTERN OF THIS WORLD, BUT BE TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF YOUR MIND.
do you want to be in the big messy blob and forget your father or do you want to be set apart from the world, living truly who you were made to be and remembering your father?? i know which one i want.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
The Bus
I catch the bus ALOT these days... i think i catch it everyday almost. and almost everytime i catch the bus i get saddened by some people that i see on the bus. And i have seen alot of people on the bus in the past month. and today just took the cake. i saw 2 girls hop on the bus and they were probably 14.... i am not kidding. 1 was talking about moving out as soon as she turns 16, so obviously they were younger than 16. but they were making sooo many disgusting, sexual comments, every 2nd word was a swear word. they were teeny boppers. it was soooo bad. it made me really sad. these girls were 14. i really wanted to shake them or tell them to get over themselves and find something worthwhile in life. but i didnt and that was ok. God made it clear it wasnt my turn to talk.
some other bus experiences have included: lecturing these 2 15 yr old boys on how there is so much more to life than just doing drugs and telling them they will wreck their lives if they dont get on the right track, noticing how materialistic the world is, seeing fake people try to act all cool, gangster wannabes and seeing people who just act like they dont care.
if people dont care about life, what is the point? what is the point in being on this earth?
some other bus experiences have included: lecturing these 2 15 yr old boys on how there is so much more to life than just doing drugs and telling them they will wreck their lives if they dont get on the right track, noticing how materialistic the world is, seeing fake people try to act all cool, gangster wannabes and seeing people who just act like they dont care.
if people dont care about life, what is the point? what is the point in being on this earth?
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