missions!

once again, fresh back from the mainland, seeems like I'm spending more time over there than back here. We went over because the pastor from Metro Ministries in New York, the place where I'm going with a team of 7 others in March, was speaking at CLA in Langley. The stories that he shared were inspiring, encouraging, and absolutely frightening! Just the amount of crime and horrible things that go on in the streets of the bronx, we are all pretty much fearing for our lives right now. Pastor Bill has been shot in the head, been thrown off buildings, been in fights, all sorts of stuff. So while some are apprehensive now, I just totally want to go and leave tomorrow! It sounds like it will be an amazing trip. That's a little bit about what my weekend was like, now I'll take it back to youth last week...
On Wednesday night, we decided to try things a little bit differently. The youth pastor, Steve, thought that maybe the kids would listen more if we did the Bible talk in the beginning instead of the end, and it worked better than it had before, which was good. But the whole session just seemed disjointed and off, maybe it was just me; I guess all that matters is that they hear the message and have a chance to respond in some way. It's also frusterating that I can never seem to get any sort of connection with any of them, it just seems like they come, they go, and we both forget about each other until next week. Something to work on...
Friday night was a chance to just chill and have a party, Steve was out in victoria so we went to his girlfriends house and set up the Wii, put a movie on, played games...with the two kids that showed up. We had a good time, it's just frusterating that there's no regular attendance. It's just a week here, a week there. It's also frusterating that we don't always have the community centre on Friday nights, which is where the church is held, so the times when there actually is youth is more rare than it should be.
Aside from all that, last week was one of relaxing, writing papers, and prayer! We had our 24 hour week of prayer, and it was actually super exciting to be in that room and pray (my shifts were always 4-5 or 5-6 in the morning). It was pretty awesome. This week we begin Church ministry with David Lee, had a good class today. Byyyye for now