Kaleo Ministry

Hello again everyone.
It's been another busy week with classes starting up and such, but overall it's been a good week. Just quickly, the course went super well, with Friday being a couple hours of solitude with God, and then just before lunch we had a communion service on the dock which was awesome.
Youth on wednesday night wasn't too bad, we'd been scared off with stories of fighting and people getting kicked out, but it was good. The kids are extremely energetic and wild, but it's all good. One thing I'm seeing in myself that is pleasing is the leadership qualities that are coming out. Back home, leading a small group was challenging at times, and I had two older guys with me, but I was all alone on Wednesday, talking to unchurched kids, and it was a good time, they were fairly open to talking. That was encouraging. And we had been praying that there wouldn't be fights and rough housing and such, and there wasn't!
This past Friday/Saturday a few of us had the opportunity to visit the mainland to do some painting for an elderly foster parent. We stayed at my roomates house in Delta and painted for 5 hours on Saturday before catching the ferry back. It was an awesome experience, painting with the ohter 6 students, getting to know them, and even when we put paint on first instead of primer, we laughed at our mistake and corrected it. That was also encouraging, and especially since we hadn't had much sleep, it's amazing that we still got along great, aside from the paint fight in the picture haha.
Today at church I also helped out in Sunday school. The grades 1-5 were in a big room, had a talk, then me and our intern and another guy from kaleo helped out with the games. It was a good time getting to know them and the talk was on teamwork, so it was good to be encouraging, and hear the other encouragment going on around us. Afterwards came the usual "let's jump on the leaders and tackle them to the ground and dogpile on them" game. All in all, it's been a good week! and we head off to tofino to go surfing tomorrow, although apparently theres 35 foot waves rolling in and the weather might not be good. pray for safety and a fun time!