TORONTO 09

Here's our video from our Toronto Mission Trip this summer. Every year we take the grade 8 students from KV Youth on a Mission Trip to Toronto, here's the video from this year's trip.

Week at Youth Camp

This week happens to be the week of Atlantic District Youth Camp. So I've been driving back and forth from the Island so I can keep stuff going here and stay in contact with our group up at Caton's. This year, by my count, we have 9 KV Youth teens working on staff at Caton's and 2 campers that are taking in this week. Please pray that God would use this week to affect the live of our teens.

This week features Atlantic leading worship and Mike MacNeil as the camp speaker. Prayer for both as they lead us towards Jesus. Camp runs till Friday, then I'm off to Ontario to speak at the Silver Lake Wesleyan Youth Camp. Pray for safe travel and that God would fill me with his words.

Yard Sale

We had a yard sale today at our house. We cleaned out all our old stuff from the basement and our closets and took them outside to sell to anyone that was interested. It really is amazing how we can collect junk of time. I don't know if you're like us but our basement (which is unfinished and makes things worse) is just full of stuff that we are not using anymore. I look at the stuff and I think I should trow it out, but I don't, I hold on to it, and now it's in a yard sale.

I wonder if our lives are sometimes like my basement. We hold on to past hurts or unattained expectations and they take over (much like my stuff taking over my basement and closets). I don't think we mean to be carrying all this "baggage" around with us, it just happens. And like my basement, if I don't go down there and clean it out and get ride of some of the stuff it will just keep piling up.

I'm speaking at a camp in Ontario in a couple week and I want to talk to the teens about this idea. Of Christians walking around carrying the sins of their past and the expectation that others (and themselves) have put on them of what a Christian is "supposed" to be like. I think Jesus came to give us freedom from our past and freedom to live in the moment.

So I'm going back out to my yard sale now. Hope I sell most of my stuff so it doesn't have to go back in the basement.