Summer Wrapup-->last week of summer placement!

the last week of summer placement, has been good! it has been a little slow, but over all it has been good!

we did another out reach in Kings sqare, and for me it was the one i have felt the most comfortable doing! I did some facepainting again! (there was a day care group there so they all swarmed me after it was anounced that there was free facepainting) and i kinda got intemadated cause there wasn't alot of things i knew how do do, sence i am just learning, and one of the day care workers can do alot with face painting! :S but all in all the face painting went good! And I was actually able to hand out tracts, without feeling like i was tiny tiny, or without wanting to hide! And our lemonaid went over well, well that is until something poped off rocek man and there was a largew fountian of lemonaid flying out, which was entertaining! we had the chance to do two drama's which was good! i realised that day how much i related to my charecter in the heart, and i was going to say something, like a testamony, but i never! :P

Then we went to Renues which was acording to the chaplin there the best service he has seen from Taylor College sence they have been comming to help! So that was god, and encouraging to hear! being at the prision was intresting for me! I was not at al nurvous, and i was excited to go back, and i enjoyed getting to talk to the prisoners afterwards! we had alot of extra time so kevin took us on a little tour of some of the different areas and i got to learn a little more about the prision system which was good! part of me still wants to work in the prison system, ministering to them, but that is something i will have to surender to God, cause if it is not HIS will for my life then i ultamently don't want it!

We also did a BBQ at Highmedow appartments, which went well! It went from four to six, and by five we had a bunch of people! :D it was great! it wazsn't just kids we had but adults came out as well! :D it was nice to start to build relationships in that area and for the parents to have some time talking and catching up or getting to know each other!

Finally we ended with the BBQ at Stone yesterday which was great! I loved it! it was great to see everyone, catch up with everyone and then just to help out in anyway, as well as doing some more facepainting and all of out skits! i hope i can keep up the relationships I have built there over the summer!

OVER ALL, the summer was great! i GREW alot, and learned alot! I did things i never thought I would do, and i enjoyed them! it got me thinking alot about the end of next year! But knowing what I have to do is to leave my hopes my dreams and desires in the hands of Jesus, surender everthing to him, and he will show me!

Our week in Fredricton!

Our week in Fredricton was intresting, good but intresting! See our clubs are only spose to be a 2 hour program, but fredriction advertised it as 3 hours! So we told the guy we were working with and the morning it started he told everyone 2 and a 1/2 hours! so we ran our two hour program and still had a 1/2 hour to kill, so we took them into the gym and played basketball! Afterr that first day we made sure the times where right! Plus the first day was a holladay, so the second day cornor stone came over with some of their kids and helpers (thank God) cause we had 30 kids from then on out!
As for other ministry's we did two visits at York Manor (the seniors home) and we also visited cornor stone for a while, and we also took Christiena, from mission week, out!
oH AND ON THURSDAY NIGHT, Afer having a wonderful meal, Rachel and I had the oppertunity to go to the Art Gallery! :D:D:D It was so cool! I felt underdressed and a little intemated but really really cool! it was a once and a life time experiance and it was a good week overall!

Our week in Moncton

Our week in Moncton was great! Chris Vanbuskirk, the minister of the church we went to, was the first Minister who stayed to help during the vacation bible club as well as he actually got down on the floor and played with the kids! It was great! On top of that he said he would be surpirsed if we got more then 5 kids, and we ended up with I think around 20 kids! so that was a fun surprise!

Each afternoon was filled with different activities! each day we would go to a prak and do outreach there with the kids by playing games and by singing songs and having free snack and drink as well as doing a puppet show with them, (Ahh, that was always fun and intresting)

As well we also visted three sedniors homes while we were in Moncton! They were great! One of the ones we went to I was really touched by! My heart just went out to everyone there! As soon as you open the door there is just such a big feeling of welcome and love! To see the workers come along side the patiants and wipe away their tears and to see there love and compasion for the resadences was truly amazing! I was so touched!

FInally we also went and helped out at a soup kitchen! I never in a million yeqars thought I would even go inside a soup kitchen let alone eat there or help there! But I did!@ we ate there twice and on wendsday we went and helped serve lunch was was such a humbuling experiance and I loved it and would go to help out again in a heart beat! we also helped out at a mobile soup bus! we went and made close to three hundred samwitches for the night! It was such an amazing experiance! (Many hands make light works)!