Saturday, March 29, 2008

mission trip

Hey everyone
Just to let you know that for the last two weeks I have been participating on my mission trip to the Cowichan valley and Vancouver, and you can read all about it at the Kaleo blog.
Thanks,

Steve

Monday, March 10, 2008

a few things up

This past week we had another hunger for youth. It was again a cool time of getting to know the youth better and see God move and challenge us all. We also had a prayer time with many of the leaders and some of the youth. It was so cool to hear every praying with such openness and passion. At Godwalk on wednesday it was another goood time of hanging out and playing ridiculous games. we had a snowball fight with crumpled pieces of paper and made silly string hats! it was great! Then today we had a meeting with our church leaders to talk about the year and how everything had gone, and that was really good too.
Our India team leaves today, that scary and exciting, and our Vancouver team is having a planning meeting on Thursday so we'll konw much more about our first week after that.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

boarding, Manafast, and post reading break

Alright, so, its been a busy time lately. We got back from reading break on wednesday night, had our last theology class on thursday. Friday was the Manafest concert, saturday was the youth ski day, sunday was church and much homework. Then monday started the "theology of missions" class we are currently in until friday.

So, starting with youth quake, it was awesome. Times that stand out to me are when i as a k5 got to hang out with and talk to previous kaleo-ers. we went out for supper with a bunch of them one night, and i spent a few hours into the early morning talking with some others. It was so cool to compare experiences and share memories. It helped me understand what i will go through when i leave in about 47 days.

The concert was really sweet to, first cuz he is a really talented artist! rap it up! but it was also cool to see kids from my youth group there and getting to hang out and talk with them in a differnt place than normal. (being our church).

The ski day was another sweet time of hanging out and talking. we had 5 hours on a bus in total, during which i go to hang out with some, but the best part was working wiht a few new boarders on the green hill and teaching them how to do this crazy and wonderful sport of snow boarding! it was really cool, cuz i've never had the patience to teach anyone. but i loved it a lot on saturday, so there's a cool little way God changed me in order to be able to do his work.

That roughly is what i've been up to though.

-steve