It has been another great week here. We are once again in a full week of class, Hermeneutics and Professor Merrill Dyck is here from Briercrest. This past week was spent mostly around camp, and doing homework. On Wednesday we had the opportunity to go back to the S.A.L.T.S tall ship we stayed on in September and help them to winterize the boat. We spent most of the day sanding and varnishing the boat to get it ready for winter. Over all it was a very fun day and it was great to have a chance to see the crew of the ship again.
This week, in my ministry at New Life youth group, we hosted a spag
hetti dinner and auction for the entire congregation. Needless to say it was a very long and hectic night, and our youth group raised nearly $6000. It was really cool to see the youth working together under a lot of pressure in order to pull off such a successful night. I am really getting to know some of the older girls in the youth group, and some of them are feeling comfortable enough with me to confide in me about their lives and some of their stories. My eyes have really been opened to the Cowichan Valley and the brokenness within it. I feel that God is has given me a passion for teen girls in these situations, and I pray that God will continue to use me in the lives of these girls. I'm learning a lot from my involvement at New Life, and God is really softening my heart and refining me as a leader in the youth group.
This upcoming week will be spent immersed in hermeneutics, and Friday night at youth group I will be helping out with the halloween event, "Trunk or Treat".
Please pray for my involvem
ent at my ministry, that God would use me to continue to build trusting relationships with the youth, and please pray for us as students that we would really delve into scripture this week, and get the most out of homework.
Many blessings,
LOVE ERIN
2 comments:
SO PROUD OF YOU. Erin it sounds like your having a great time and like GOD is working through you more each post. Can't wait to see what you're like after this is over. :)
Dearest Poopsie, It is GREAT to hear from you this week. I take such delight in reading about your adventures each week. I love the moving pictures 'slide show' you have created on that page. Well done.
Hey, you should check your posting - a couple of words like spaghetti and something else get split up in odd places.
We continue to pray for you in your studies, recreation and ministry areas that God will so partner with you that every activity and every task is full of joy in your discovery of Him.
"Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, that you may be perfect and complete lacking in nothing." James 1:2-4
We love you and miss you!
Love mom and dad
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