My Canada Experience So Far..

September 24, 2011 

Well here I am at the library on our day off.  It's been an amazing time so far, feels like I've been here forever but it's only week 3 wild! 

I love not having a computer or a phone, makes me think I was made to be technology free. 

There is so much to say about what's been going on, so much that I feel that I can't put into words or describe, you just gotta be here.  But I'll try... 


First of all, we have a schedule to follow each day, & it is a full one!  Each day we have class for about four hours a day then in the afternoon for about three and a half hours we do things like community involvement, one on ones, outreach preparation & intercession, bible study, processing & review.  Every afternoon the schedule changes so we don't do all those things in one day.


We also have work duties and my work duty along with two others is to prepare the meal each night Monday-Friday.  Mom, you'd be so proud! It's great because the food & recipe is already prepared for us, all we have to do is put it all together, I've really enjoyed doing this. Cooking for twenty people each night, wow I didn't think I could do that.


So what am I learning so far?  Well this week we had a guest speaker named Luba and she spoke about hearing the voice of God, I took like fourteen pages of notes, yikes! 
But here's are some things that stood out to me: 
Sometimes God's answer needs to come in a group setting.
Am I living for God's glory? If so, it doesn't matter how long it takes. 
There are promises to those who fear God. 
God cares about our healing & the world. 
Hearing God is a process, the process of relationship. 
God cherishes intimacy over activity. 
Relationship is mostly intimacy & communication. 
God can't be put in a box because He wants us continuously in relationship, asking. 
God does not see us as damaged but as just what He wanted. 


We also had a time of prayer with Luba & the staff where we each took turns confessing lies we've believed about God, ourselves or others & then they spoke over us truth & what God says.  It was amazing! 


I've had a chance to have some amazing conversations with people while we walked to the little Asian church we're renting, or while we're cooking, or just hanging out before we go to sleep.  Throughout these convos I've noticed that we are struggling, we are each wanting desperately to hear God's voice on what to do, and how to be but it is hard.  Which makes me think that there is a war going on, that what we are doing is primarily spiritual & the things that we are struggling with whether it's an insecurity, or an annoyance, or a distraction is spiritual & we must pray that God would help us & not let the enemy win.  


So with all that said, what you could do after reading this is send up a prayer for us, the students, the speakers, the staff.  God is definitely at work! 


Love you guys!