Minds Work Best at Night

Yeah Right!  Well that title is a lie, even though some people out here might disagree with me, but if there is one thing I've learned out here so far it is that I'm always right and everyone is always wrong (that was sarcastic).  

For our class of Hermeneutics we had a group project/presentation that was due on the last day of class (friday).  Our group had to do our presentation on the book of 1 Peter, we talking about how all christians are going to suffer in their life just as Christ suffered.  We had come up with this great idea to do a Nooma video.  So we had written out the script, filmed all the scenes.  That might seem very simple but that took a lot of time and effort.  Thursday night we finally finished filming and we were moving on to edit.  Turns out the camera we have has a defect and is not able to transfer footage to the computer.  Seven hours, four computers, and three cameras later we came to the conclusion that this footage was not going to be edited.  

At 2 in the morning we came up with a different way for presenting the next morning and it worked out very well, but the point of this story is that we were shown first hand the power of God's will.  WE wanted to make that video, and WE wanted it to work out, but WE were very mistaken.  God intervened and said "No" you are now going to it my[God] way.

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Sorry for the very uncreative title but I am not in a very inspirational mood right now. We just had our first class today in Hermeneutics. It was really interesting I already feel like I will never be able to look at the bible or any other book the same again. But despite the fact that the course was very educational it came with some extra work, and that work added onto other work that I have seems to be making me very busy, tonight and the rest of the nights this week will most likely be quite late. But hey couple cups of coffee later and I won't even be able to tell that I'm lacking sleep.

I guess this is a wierd prayer reequest but please pray for the ability to not feel tired? I'm not sure if that seems right so maybe pray that I get my work done fast (while still doing a good job) and be able to get a proper amount of sleep.

We had our third Bridge service last night, it went well again, i don't have very many complaints about it. I do have to say though that it gets discouraging when not very many people show up, but I've been told that Lech our pastor at Cobble Hill started pastoring the church when there were only twelve people attending. Whenever I hear that I am instantly put at ease, I have to learn to not worry about numbers, because numbers do not prove how succesful a church or service is.

Please continue to pray for the Bridge, the people involved, and the people that come out. You can also pray for The Kaleo Cobble Hill team cause on November 16 we are leading the SUnday morning service while Lech is going home to Poland for a visit.

Turning Grey

Yesterday we left at the early hour of 8 O'clock in the morning to go to Victoria. We went to the SALTS headquarters to help them winterize there boats. Winterizing these sailboats basically consists of taking down sails and masts. Although as beautiful as the day was yesterday we were working inside in the shop. We got put to work sanding down the Dorries (life rafts) and the booms (big wooden poles that hold the sails horizontally). All in all it was an awesome day, and we all enjoyed decorating ourselves with sawdust.

UP TA DATE

Well we (Kaleo/ Cobble Hill team) just put on our second evening "Bridge" service. I felt it went very good. The worship team seems to be getting to know each other better, not just their names but also there playing styles, leaders, and area in which we all need to challenge each other in. The sermon was given by a woman from Cobble Hill she had just finished doing a YWAM and told about how her eyes were opened to the capabilities of peoples charity, and how people who have nothing still seem to find ways to give something. Our scripture and prayers were bang on too. We are still fooling around with what we want the evening order to go like but that will just take some trial and error. One crucial thing we remebered this time that we had forgotten the service before was...people! A few staff from Qwanoes came out and others from the church came.

Please continue to pray for the Bridge and Cobble Hill in general.

We are kind of in the middle of a two week break, only break is an understatement. Everyone is pretty stressed out right now with work and assigmnets. We are trying to finish up post course work from Spritual Formation, then we're in the idst of assignments for Camp Ministry and then we have pre-course assigments for Hermeneutics which starts in a week. I'm not sure if I've ever read so much in this amount of time in my life before.

Please pray for motivation, concentration, and endurence (sorry I was trying to think of another "tion" word but i couldn't. Feel free to insert your own cause chances are I need prayer for that.)

Tofino Surf Trip

27 mouths full of water, 15 bruised heads, 4 headaches, and one sliced ear later we got back from our three day surf trip in Tofino. I sadly cannot say I am a surfer now although I did enjoy trying to surf quite a bit. I got up about 5 times and those times were incredible! It's really amazing being able to jump on a wave and ride it. We were kind of expecting some rainy weather and we didn't get it, so I was quite happy to be able to surf in some sunshine. Another amazing thing that happened on this trip was that I got to vote for the first time in my life!

Up/Down and Coming/Going

This past saturday we had an over nighter at church with the youth, we played some games and watched some movies, ate some food, and lost some sleep. Here are just a couple pictures of that evening.

This weekend being thanksgiving and all, we will not be having the Bridge due to the fact that all of us Kaleo students and well the rest oif the world are going home for food and good company. For those of us who can't afford to go home, we will be finding friends and making them drag us to their homes (I'm spending thanksgiving in Victoria with a friend of mine from Kaleo). After monday we woll once again begin to plan out the next Bridge service, but school work has begun to get heavy so please pray for me as I embark on many short nights and tired days. Our pastor at Cobble Hill Baptist is taking a trip to Poland in the near future and we have been asked to "sub-in" for a sunday. So a few of us will be taking care of the sermon or message while others lead worship and such. We are all pretty new to this situation na dwe hope and pray that it will go well and won't result in us being excommunicated or anything.

The Bridge

We had our first official "Bridge" tonight. It went well, from worship to prayer to the talk. The only thing it lacked was people. It seems we were having problems in I guess "advertising" it. So please pray for our next Bridge that people from the community will come out. Were not running it next Sunday due to Thanksgiving but the sunday following will claim to be our second Bridge service.