i promised some summer camp pics ill try and load as many as i can enjoy
home sweet home.... eagle's nest was truely amazing, i know this might sound corny but i want to change. After going up there and seeing all those people who don't have any point in thier life and how that is so devastating to thier own lives and the lives around them. It gives you a different perspective on the world, and how the attitude of "oh someone else will do it" can prevent so many people from knowing Christ. When you go up there and here the stories of bests friends beating each other to a pulp in a drunken frenzy or daughters being raped by thier own fathers while plastered or being so drunk you dont know where you are and you freeze to death its just sad that how none of them know what to do with thier lives they just drink it all away. Its like a great big vicious cycle friends/family die from drinking, drinking to get away from the pain, death caused by the drinking and the cycle starts all over again. And since thier life is without God they have no hope to cope witht he pain or deal with the temptation of drinking after the pain. the kids up there are almost uncared for by thier parents, and they are exposed to such a harsh environment that the user friendly one what we are all used to, and they are all exposed to drinking/drungs at a very young age. There is a mentality here that causes a lot of trouble with self control and that is peer pressure. This peer pressure is very different from the city peer pressure that we usually experience, thier peer pressure is: if you dont do it you're weak, if your weak... we'll beat you up toughen you up, anything that makes you look weak you geat beat up for. At our vbs (bible club) we were running up there there were like little kids 6-8 trying to pick fights with each other. Basically one this sum up the people up in Eagle's nest, they are hurting and they NEED ..no they WANT God's love but there's no church up there there's no permanant Christian role model that they can follow. one of the people that Rev Henry knows very well he said this paraphrase of course "you don't know what its like you just come up here for two weeks you get to know us a little share to us a little then you leave for a year and we go right back to what we were doing before, you dont know what its like"
One thing i've noticed during my time up in Eagle's nest was i've seen more of God that i have EVER seen in my whole life combined. God answered 99.9% probably all of our prayers up there. God gave us, every day, strength to get through the day with only 5-6 hours of sleep a day. The thing about this is that we were up there for 2 whole weeks and all we concentrated on was God and His will of showing his love to the people up there. Of course our prayers were not like the selfish "Please God help me on my midterm tommorow that ill do good Amen." but even when we asked for a projector when ours was broken he sent one to us and one 100 times better than the one we brought up, and up in Eagle's nest finding a projector is like trying to find a "needle in a haystack" (sry for the cornyness) so basically impossible and when were were praying for a place to live in God not only answered our prayers but he gave us even more he gave us a house with upstairs and downstairs and also a "Cafeteria" also called the "drop in center" because so many people started coming for some food we turned it into another ministry where when they come in we would have chances of sharing the gospel to them. Also God uses the most unlikely people to do the job for him. He used a gang member who is very on very good terms with Esther and he would without telling us until later would drive by our house when he was in the neighbourhood just to check up on us and one time he chased away a bunch of people that were actually going to do something. Like our God is seriously THE REAL GOD. On missions trips i think people's eyes are open, i know mine have been opened, you see so much spiritual warfare and you Always see God win. You wouldnt see demons and "supernatural things" when your walking on the sidewalks in edmonton. But when your on the battle field where the Holy forces of heaven are fighting the dark forces of Satan, when you experience it first hand AS a soldier for God fighting over the land (the unsaved people). When you're there in first person Satan tries to attack you to try and make you afraid or stumble but we have strength, we know that the Almighty God is on our side and Satan has nowhere near enough power to defeat us when we have God on our side. The only people who Satan can defeat is those who do not have God.
home sweet home.... eagle's nest was truely amazing, i know this might sound corny but i want to change. After going up there and seeing all those people who don't have any point in thier life and how that is so devastating to thier own lives and the lives around them. It gives you a different perspective on the world, and how the attitude of "oh someone else will do it" can prevent so many people from knowing Christ. When you go up there and here the stories of bests friends beating each other to a pulp in a drunken frenzy or daughters being raped by thier own fathers while plastered or being so drunk you dont know where you are and you freeze to death its just sad that how none of them know what to do with thier lives they just drink it all away. Its like a great big vicious cycle friends/family die from drinking, drinking to get away from the pain, death caused by the drinking and the cycle starts all over again. And since thier life is without God they have no hope to cope witht he pain or deal with the temptation of drinking after the pain. the kids up there are almost uncared for by thier parents, and they are exposed to such a harsh environment that the user friendly one what we are all used to, and they are all exposed to drinking/drungs at a very young age. There is a mentality here that causes a lot of trouble with self control and that is peer pressure. This peer pressure is very different from the city peer pressure that we usually experience, thier peer pressure is: if you dont do it you're weak, if your weak... we'll beat you up toughen you up, anything that makes you look weak you geat beat up for. At our vbs (bible club) we were running up there there were like little kids 6-8 trying to pick fights with each other. Basically one this sum up the people up in Eagle's nest, they are hurting and they NEED ..no they WANT God's love but there's no church up there there's no permanant Christian role model that they can follow. one of the people that Rev Henry knows very well he said this paraphrase of course "you don't know what its like you just come up here for two weeks you get to know us a little share to us a little then you leave for a year and we go right back to what we were doing before, you dont know what its like"
One thing i've noticed during my time up in Eagle's nest was i've seen more of God that i have EVER seen in my whole life combined. God answered 99.9% probably all of our prayers up there. God gave us, every day, strength to get through the day with only 5-6 hours of sleep a day. The thing about this is that we were up there for 2 whole weeks and all we concentrated on was God and His will of showing his love to the people up there. Of course our prayers were not like the selfish "Please God help me on my midterm tommorow that ill do good Amen." but even when we asked for a projector when ours was broken he sent one to us and one 100 times better than the one we brought up, and up in Eagle's nest finding a projector is like trying to find a "needle in a haystack" (sry for the cornyness) so basically impossible and when were were praying for a place to live in God not only answered our prayers but he gave us even more he gave us a house with upstairs and downstairs and also a "Cafeteria" also called the "drop in center" because so many people started coming for some food we turned it into another ministry where when they come in we would have chances of sharing the gospel to them. Also God uses the most unlikely people to do the job for him. He used a gang member who is very on very good terms with Esther and he would without telling us until later would drive by our house when he was in the neighbourhood just to check up on us and one time he chased away a bunch of people that were actually going to do something. Like our God is seriously THE REAL GOD. On missions trips i think people's eyes are open, i know mine have been opened, you see so much spiritual warfare and you Always see God win. You wouldnt see demons and "supernatural things" when your walking on the sidewalks in edmonton. But when your on the battle field where the Holy forces of heaven are fighting the dark forces of Satan, when you experience it first hand AS a soldier for God fighting over the land (the unsaved people). When you're there in first person Satan tries to attack you to try and make you afraid or stumble but we have strength, we know that the Almighty God is on our side and Satan has nowhere near enough power to defeat us when we have God on our side. The only people who Satan can defeat is those who do not have God.
During the last few days in Assumption I seriously didnt want to leave, if you ask cel and vron they will tell you i was whinning for the last few days about not wanting to leave. I really wanted to stay another week doing vbs during the afternoon and then doing the youth ministries during the evening i didnt have much chance to meet the "family" of the children/teens. I really wanted to just take a week off from vbs and just do visitation and get to know the families better. It was very sad during the last day you get attached to the atmosphere up there people up there. The atmosphere because it is all centred around God everyone with the same mindset to do God's will everyone would pull thier wieght and help those who were to sick to do it and never complained. Also because our team that went up bonded very well and there was very little team unity, living together 24/7 for 2 weeks is pretty tough but we learned to put all our past differences and present grumpyness (me : P) away and just cope with each other until one or the other cooled off. Also the people up there are SO Sooooo friendly of course they are shy but we could one of thier houses and they would just like offer us food they just gave food to the newcomers they didnt even ask our names from the one that have been there before. like i really miss thier hospitality and just uncaring generosity. And if they had God they would get past thier addictions and truely be a loving people.
thanks for reading this insanely long blog
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