Kaleo Ministry

Good afternoon everyone! Most of the Kaleo people went into Duncan for a bit, so I have some time for myself at the moment. Since my last post we've had a few days to kindof relax and enjoy each other. Amidst all this, of course, reading "The Life You've Always Wanted" by John Ortberg, which some of us finished during the allnighter last night. Needless to say, some of us are extremely tired today, but who cares! We start our sailing trip tomorrow, so that should also be a blast.
We've had numerous opportunities for ministry over the past week, as the Trinity Western leadership group of about 350 was here this weekend. I was given the privilege of strapping grown men and women into harnesses (its not awkward until you make it awkward) before their encounter with the massive zip line. Getting to talk to them was pretty sweet, them all being older than me, they had lots of questions of the Kaleo program and such. At night me and a few guys snuck into their worship session so that was pretty cool as well. That was probably the best part of the weekend for me, to see all 350 of them just lifting up their hearts, and dancing, singing, doing whatever they felt like doing.
Throughout this whole experience I'm learning how to talk to completely random strangers and find out stuff about them, keep the conversation going and such. This is especially true at our church where we have to make friends with the youth, get to know them, and start from scratch with the rest of the church. Our first actual youth group time won't come until this friday, because we've been so busy, and we can only go on friday if we get back from our sailing trip on time. It should be interesting to see what happens. Well, let me know how all of you are doing, and whats happening at home! Talk to you guys later!

For starters...

Hello everyone! I must say that this past week has been a whirlwind of information and activity and meeting everyone. It already feels like we've been here for at least a month, we're all super tight and love each other amazingly. So for those who haven't heard from me at all, I'm in a dorm room with 2 other guys, theres 3 other rooms that have 4 guys each for a total of 15 guys, and 11 girls upstairs. When the actual school related courses come it'll be a schock, because we havcn't done barely anything related to school at this moment.
Our first outtrip was to strathcona park to do a three day hike, as seen in the pictures, and it was the time of our lives. The bonding that took place while hiking, the encouragement, everything was literally amazing, expecially the creation that was evident all around us. Reaching the top was incredible, it had seemed like such a daunting task when we set out.
I started out in my new home church, Warmland Community Church, and our kickoff was last Sunday where crazy kids chased after me with hair spray adn i had pink/purple/green/blue hair and face paint. It will be an amazing church, but the youth are troubled there. Last night was the first gr 5-7 youth night, none of us went because we were exhausted, but there was a fight that broke out and the youth guy had to make sure they went home seperate ways. So now we know what we're up against but I think that all 5 of us that are helping out there are ready for the challenge. Thanks for the prayers, I'll try to keep pictures posted and keep you guys updated! Miss you guys!