May I just say that patience in love is very difficult?
It has now been a year and a half since I started living downtown with a friend of mine. At the time that I moved in, honestly, I didn't really know him too well. All I knew is that he was aware of the burdens I was bearing, he acknowledged that it kinda made him uneasy, but that he was willing to live together and be there if needed. I made a conscious choice that I would love him as a brother and be there in any way he needed me to be there for him.
I learned that I am definitely not an introvert at the core, although in many other ways we were very similar. I wanted to be able to relate better and use secular things as a way of connecting. I think in general this is a good way of getting to know friends better, learning what they like and being willing to appreciate it to some extent. I also shared some of the things from my childhood, like Maple Story cards. :P But there's only so many ways to build decks when I only have like 100 cards.
Early on it became apparent that he was having difficulty in various ways in trusting God in his life. And I was really in no position to tell him what to do. I also reeeeeally hate confrontation, so I didn't want to do anything that would force him away or make him hate me. I had kinda felt like he was keeping his distance because of my struggles, which was fine. It just felt very lonely and kinda enhanced the feeling of monstrosity I often feel towards myself.
As time went on though, I was and am very glad that we have become better friends and brothers. I feel like we both kinda tend to hold a lot back until it kinda just explodes and overflows. The problem being that he generally dislikes my asking if something is wrong, and I generally lean towards thinking things are wrong when they aren't. :P
Sometimes there were difficulties and we were there for each other. Sometimes there was nothing I could do, but pray. And God would do so much more than I could ask! Why I don't ask of Him more is unfortunate.
I am frequently encouraged by how he handles the problems around him. Even when he personally doesn't want to do something, his spirit is provoked by God, he acknowledges what God is saying to him, and he wrestles with it. I am honestly jealous of how intimate the conversations with God sound.
Most recently he's been reading biographies of missionaries. (I think I got him back into reading, influenced also by his long bus rides to work, but our pastor gave him the first of these recent books). And it just makes me really happy to see him struggle with their passion and willingness to sacrifice in service to God and others. It makes me so happy to see him desire to emulate that. It makes me so so happy that we can encourage each other and hold each other accountable and push each other forward to what God is calling us to.
Over the past year there are so many things I have tried to do to help him know God better, but I feel like the most effective things have always been what God did apart from my workings. I eagerly await the day when all sin and temptation fades away from both of us and we can stand shoulder to shoulder working for God's glory here and in other nations proclaiming His goodness in our lives and His faithfulness to fulfill all He has promised in this world.
Even if I never know the impact I actually have had on him, I'm just glad to have a brother who encourages me and is ready to call out sin in my life.
May we continue to grow in Him. May His kingdom come. May we be sent out. May love abound. May our hearts glorify God first and foremost.
Amen
PS. May I just say patience in love is very rewarding. ;P
PPS. I'm so tempted to just turn our friendship into intentional discipleship, but that hasn't worked so many times. But patiently living life trying to serve God and loving him and others seems to work. This is irritating to my desire to be the one who gets results, but yes, very rewarding in the long run, and MUCH more glorifying to God. :P
Showing posts with label Discipling. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Discipling. Show all posts
15.6.15
Baby Geese
Yo,
yesterday was pretty busy. I was out of the house literally from 9 am to midnight. I had decided to join the Ottawa Christian Chorale for this season, so I had practice for that, followed by worship team practice, assisting a bit with Westfest (an annual neighborhood event in westboro) stuff at church, YA, and street marshaling for Westfest. So it was a busy day, but fun.
1. I am not a tenor. E's I am good with. F's sometimes. F#'s... G............ G# (o. O). A? Please no. So I need to learn how to sing in falsetto, or not sing the tenor parts for some songs. (Otherwise OCC was tons of fun! =D)
2. I biked to and from all of those things. On the way to worship practice I biked along the river and ran into a pack of geese who had a bunch of baby geese! So I had to stop and play with them. I ended up following a couple of the babies that had been separated and caught one when he got stuck on a fence. I held him and pet him. He was very fluffy. (sorry no photos) So I tried again, but I couldn't manage to get the babies away from the parents. They were very protective.
As I mentioned the day before, I think discipleship is one thing that the church really needs more of. Not just my church, but quite a few (I can't comment on all of them to any degree). When I say discipleship I mean more mature Christians kinda mentoring and spending time with younger Christians to help them grow in their faith. And the thing here is that this is what Jesus calls us to! The great commission (Matt28:18-20) isn't to go and tell everyone about Jesus and then leave them hanging. Jesus says to go to all nations and make disciples, people who follow Jesus and grow in their relationship with Him. Paul calls the church at Philippi to follow after examples of godly men and women, and calls the church at Corinth to follow after him as he follows after Jesus' example. And further in the great commission Jesus calls us to teach these disciples to obey everything that God has commanded. And here we see the example set by Paul in 2Tim2:2 as he had trained Timothy who was then to train other reliable men who would be qualified to train others. We see a chain of discipleship, unbroken between generation, age, race, or any other divisions. As Paul explains in Eph2 God has broken down the divisions and made out of two (Jew and Gentile) one church, unified in Him; and again in Rom12 he speaks of the body of Christ being unified yet diversified, each with the different skills and abilities to build up the church.
Discipleship; a chain of disciples following and being further trained by more mature godly men or women as they all follow Jesus.
And discipleship, which I think is so great and the heart of the church, is one thing which I think definitely cannot be offered through parachurch. P2C for example, is a group of students at university. Essentially all in the same phase of their lives, mostly going through the same trials and temptations. Some may have grown up in church and came to truly trust in Jesus earlier, but even they don't have all that much to teach if they themselves are not also growing and being discipled by older men and women. There are some staff members, but they are often not too much older, and are kinda in the same phase of their lives. Additionally, parachurch is typically focused on one thing, and in P2C's case that would be training in evangelism, not so much in deeper bible study or other areas of life.
I had been reading a small book called "The Master Plan of Evangelism" by Robert E. Coleman. The book is all about looking at how Jesus did His ministry and the core concepts we can learn and apply. The second chapter was on 'Association'. Jesus spent time with his disciples. He spent His life teaching and ministering to them so that when He left (bodily) they'd be good to lead the church. The chapter emphasizes the need for this association, without which a new believer may not really grow in their faith and may be swayed by the world and the enemy. And as funny as this may sound, the geese from yesterday morning kinda provide an analogy.
The geese, now mature, protect their babies from any potential threats while also teaching them how to survive and helping them grow. In the analogy I am the enemy coming to swoop down on the unsuspecting poor helpless little geese. But afterwards I had no way to get at them, especially when they stood together in a group in unity.
Thus should the church be; building up, protecting, teaching and caring for their young.
So I will continue to talk about and pray for the church and for God to really help establish a core of discipleship which would cause stronger community, deeper faith, and greater holiness (and Christ-likeness) in the church.
D.Fa
yesterday was pretty busy. I was out of the house literally from 9 am to midnight. I had decided to join the Ottawa Christian Chorale for this season, so I had practice for that, followed by worship team practice, assisting a bit with Westfest (an annual neighborhood event in westboro) stuff at church, YA, and street marshaling for Westfest. So it was a busy day, but fun.
1. I am not a tenor. E's I am good with. F's sometimes. F#'s... G............ G# (o. O). A? Please no. So I need to learn how to sing in falsetto, or not sing the tenor parts for some songs. (Otherwise OCC was tons of fun! =D)
2. I biked to and from all of those things. On the way to worship practice I biked along the river and ran into a pack of geese who had a bunch of baby geese! So I had to stop and play with them. I ended up following a couple of the babies that had been separated and caught one when he got stuck on a fence. I held him and pet him. He was very fluffy. (sorry no photos) So I tried again, but I couldn't manage to get the babies away from the parents. They were very protective.
As I mentioned the day before, I think discipleship is one thing that the church really needs more of. Not just my church, but quite a few (I can't comment on all of them to any degree). When I say discipleship I mean more mature Christians kinda mentoring and spending time with younger Christians to help them grow in their faith. And the thing here is that this is what Jesus calls us to! The great commission (Matt28:18-20) isn't to go and tell everyone about Jesus and then leave them hanging. Jesus says to go to all nations and make disciples, people who follow Jesus and grow in their relationship with Him. Paul calls the church at Philippi to follow after examples of godly men and women, and calls the church at Corinth to follow after him as he follows after Jesus' example. And further in the great commission Jesus calls us to teach these disciples to obey everything that God has commanded. And here we see the example set by Paul in 2Tim2:2 as he had trained Timothy who was then to train other reliable men who would be qualified to train others. We see a chain of discipleship, unbroken between generation, age, race, or any other divisions. As Paul explains in Eph2 God has broken down the divisions and made out of two (Jew and Gentile) one church, unified in Him; and again in Rom12 he speaks of the body of Christ being unified yet diversified, each with the different skills and abilities to build up the church.
Discipleship; a chain of disciples following and being further trained by more mature godly men or women as they all follow Jesus.
And discipleship, which I think is so great and the heart of the church, is one thing which I think definitely cannot be offered through parachurch. P2C for example, is a group of students at university. Essentially all in the same phase of their lives, mostly going through the same trials and temptations. Some may have grown up in church and came to truly trust in Jesus earlier, but even they don't have all that much to teach if they themselves are not also growing and being discipled by older men and women. There are some staff members, but they are often not too much older, and are kinda in the same phase of their lives. Additionally, parachurch is typically focused on one thing, and in P2C's case that would be training in evangelism, not so much in deeper bible study or other areas of life.
I had been reading a small book called "The Master Plan of Evangelism" by Robert E. Coleman. The book is all about looking at how Jesus did His ministry and the core concepts we can learn and apply. The second chapter was on 'Association'. Jesus spent time with his disciples. He spent His life teaching and ministering to them so that when He left (bodily) they'd be good to lead the church. The chapter emphasizes the need for this association, without which a new believer may not really grow in their faith and may be swayed by the world and the enemy. And as funny as this may sound, the geese from yesterday morning kinda provide an analogy.
The geese, now mature, protect their babies from any potential threats while also teaching them how to survive and helping them grow. In the analogy I am the enemy coming to swoop down on the unsuspecting poor helpless little geese. But afterwards I had no way to get at them, especially when they stood together in a group in unity.
Thus should the church be; building up, protecting, teaching and caring for their young.
So I will continue to talk about and pray for the church and for God to really help establish a core of discipleship which would cause stronger community, deeper faith, and greater holiness (and Christ-likeness) in the church.
D.Fa
19.11.11
Time Management.
So, yesterday.
As usual I had a ton of things scheduled. I actually finished my organic chemistry prelab the night before, so I didn't have any really urgent school work to do. xP
I bussed to school. That was awkward. It was (at least according to a group on facebook) 'sing on the bus day'. I was so excited to get on the bus and just have everyone singing. Did not happen... and I didn't want to be the only person singing... and I hadn't really prepared anything... So I was like singing really quietly............... awkward.
Physical chemistry lecture. boring.
Then I was supposed to meet up with LT for our one on one discipling time. Class had ended a bit early and LT is often a bit late, so I figured that I had time to go heat up my leftovers for lunch. It was like stir-fried vegetables and clam chowder on rice. Mmm. Ya. He arrived and we continued to try and set goals for the year. I am bad at sitting down and setting goals. Like, I see the purpose of goals, but I am terrible at setting them non-spontaneously. I say non-spontaneously because I do set goals based off of experiences and what is happening and what I want to happen.
Like, ya, so, this week was supposed to be 'the swan dive' and so I made myself available to the best of my ability for the other first year guys and stuff. I offered multiple time slots everyday of the week and told them to message me if they were able to / wanted to go with me. I did not hear back from anyone. The only time I went sharing was when me and LT ran into DP and so we went. So, I set a goal. Instead of them coming to me, which they still can, I will actively pursue them and (here's the goal) go sharing with each of the other guys in C4C by the end of the year. If that means 20 or so guys, let's go. We've got like 13 weeks next semester and a week left or so. That's plenty of time. xP (especially with only 3 labs next semester. yuss.)
Ya. So, I guess (if you can't tell) I have a lot of issues with time management, but I guess I don't really associate them with so called 'spiritual growth' goals. I guess I have in my mind divided how I live and treat myself from my relationship with God..? That, that's not really good. He is Lord of all. My life should reflect that and ya, every aspect should be worship to him. So, I guess LT challenged me to do something about my time management.
The challenge: Write down what I spend my time on for a week (or two..?) while also getting 7 hours of sleep each day (or trying to).
So, you know. I really want to do this, I suppose. I mean, it's something I really need to work on and so I want to be committed to it. So, to make sure I am committed to it I bought a notebook, a pocket-sized notebook. But not even one of those dollar store ones that I can just throw away or whatever. I bought a set of two mini Moleskine notebooks. Now I am committed. I didn't buy them just because of all the hype behind moleskines, but also because they were the smallest notebooks I could find in the bookstore and that they were expensive... T.T I am not one to buy unnessecary things, especially expensive ones. It was 8$. I am committed. lol.
So, ya. Let's see how that goes. I'm trying, like, down to the minute, but not quite that intense. Just like whenever the focus switches. I'll do a bunch of analysis later. (I like data analysis =D)
Yup. Then I got to meet up with KC again. I'm really glad I get to spend time with him and that we get to spend time reading the Bible and ya, to spend time thinking about these things. We read John 2 and did a lesson on growth and the essentialness of prayer and reading the Bible and obedience in growth. So, this week we are going to read the Bible daily before bed and hold each other accountable. He had to go to work, but it was another great meeting. I can't wait until our lesson on prayer. xP. I really want to see him praying passionately.
Umm. Organic chem lab. We watched clear liquid go from one point to another really slowly by evaporating and condensing like a million times. >.> Kinda boring, but we know what our liquids were! =D (which is the point of the experiment. Separating two liquids and determining which they were by testing them.)
Then me and NF went to Story of the Soul (after a brief chat with MC who played on worship team with NF at Getaway two years ago!). SotS was good. We watched a couple movie clips, looked at a painting and heard CW's testimony of hope in a difficult time. and JXW came! =D (even though the O-train broke down... >.>) Ya. There were a bunch of people there (I haven't heard an official count yet though. I counted 45 at the end, but people may have already left at that point).
Ya. Then 11 of us went to bubbletea in China town and played Apples to Apples in My Sweet Tea. lol. So fun. AG is hilarious and I think a lot of us hadn't actually had dinner, just sugary baked goods at SotS and bubbletea. lol.
Ya. I need to change. I don't want to be the one that makes you cry, but rather the one you can cry on.
I talked with CW for like half an hour before going to sleep. xP. I really wanted to do that like everyday the way me and DP did in EA. It's one thing I think good roommates should do. xP
Ya.
Ttyl. I've got to do my Phys chem lab now since I have work at 2... >.>
=D.Fa
PS. DS's baptism tomorrow!!!!!!! So exciting!
As usual I had a ton of things scheduled. I actually finished my organic chemistry prelab the night before, so I didn't have any really urgent school work to do. xP
I bussed to school. That was awkward. It was (at least according to a group on facebook) 'sing on the bus day'. I was so excited to get on the bus and just have everyone singing. Did not happen... and I didn't want to be the only person singing... and I hadn't really prepared anything... So I was like singing really quietly............... awkward.
Physical chemistry lecture. boring.
Then I was supposed to meet up with LT for our one on one discipling time. Class had ended a bit early and LT is often a bit late, so I figured that I had time to go heat up my leftovers for lunch. It was like stir-fried vegetables and clam chowder on rice. Mmm. Ya. He arrived and we continued to try and set goals for the year. I am bad at sitting down and setting goals. Like, I see the purpose of goals, but I am terrible at setting them non-spontaneously. I say non-spontaneously because I do set goals based off of experiences and what is happening and what I want to happen.
Like, ya, so, this week was supposed to be 'the swan dive' and so I made myself available to the best of my ability for the other first year guys and stuff. I offered multiple time slots everyday of the week and told them to message me if they were able to / wanted to go with me. I did not hear back from anyone. The only time I went sharing was when me and LT ran into DP and so we went. So, I set a goal. Instead of them coming to me, which they still can, I will actively pursue them and (here's the goal) go sharing with each of the other guys in C4C by the end of the year. If that means 20 or so guys, let's go. We've got like 13 weeks next semester and a week left or so. That's plenty of time. xP (especially with only 3 labs next semester. yuss.)
Ya. So, I guess (if you can't tell) I have a lot of issues with time management, but I guess I don't really associate them with so called 'spiritual growth' goals. I guess I have in my mind divided how I live and treat myself from my relationship with God..? That, that's not really good. He is Lord of all. My life should reflect that and ya, every aspect should be worship to him. So, I guess LT challenged me to do something about my time management.The challenge: Write down what I spend my time on for a week (or two..?) while also getting 7 hours of sleep each day (or trying to).
So, you know. I really want to do this, I suppose. I mean, it's something I really need to work on and so I want to be committed to it. So, to make sure I am committed to it I bought a notebook, a pocket-sized notebook. But not even one of those dollar store ones that I can just throw away or whatever. I bought a set of two mini Moleskine notebooks. Now I am committed. I didn't buy them just because of all the hype behind moleskines, but also because they were the smallest notebooks I could find in the bookstore and that they were expensive... T.T I am not one to buy unnessecary things, especially expensive ones. It was 8$. I am committed. lol.
So, ya. Let's see how that goes. I'm trying, like, down to the minute, but not quite that intense. Just like whenever the focus switches. I'll do a bunch of analysis later. (I like data analysis =D)
Yup. Then I got to meet up with KC again. I'm really glad I get to spend time with him and that we get to spend time reading the Bible and ya, to spend time thinking about these things. We read John 2 and did a lesson on growth and the essentialness of prayer and reading the Bible and obedience in growth. So, this week we are going to read the Bible daily before bed and hold each other accountable. He had to go to work, but it was another great meeting. I can't wait until our lesson on prayer. xP. I really want to see him praying passionately.
Umm. Organic chem lab. We watched clear liquid go from one point to another really slowly by evaporating and condensing like a million times. >.> Kinda boring, but we know what our liquids were! =D (which is the point of the experiment. Separating two liquids and determining which they were by testing them.)
Then me and NF went to Story of the Soul (after a brief chat with MC who played on worship team with NF at Getaway two years ago!). SotS was good. We watched a couple movie clips, looked at a painting and heard CW's testimony of hope in a difficult time. and JXW came! =D (even though the O-train broke down... >.>) Ya. There were a bunch of people there (I haven't heard an official count yet though. I counted 45 at the end, but people may have already left at that point).
Ya. Then 11 of us went to bubbletea in China town and played Apples to Apples in My Sweet Tea. lol. So fun. AG is hilarious and I think a lot of us hadn't actually had dinner, just sugary baked goods at SotS and bubbletea. lol.
Ya. I need to change. I don't want to be the one that makes you cry, but rather the one you can cry on.
I talked with CW for like half an hour before going to sleep. xP. I really wanted to do that like everyday the way me and DP did in EA. It's one thing I think good roommates should do. xP
Ya.
Ttyl. I've got to do my Phys chem lab now since I have work at 2... >.>
=D.Fa
PS. DS's baptism tomorrow!!!!!!! So exciting!
12.11.11
A late lunch
Hey guys!
Yesterday was pretty jam-packed with stuff. Phys Chem lecture, Discipleship meeting with LT, Discipleing with KC, organic chem lab, weekly meeting, and 'You had me at Bacon 2'. That is what was planned for yesterday and it mostly played out as expected, well I don't know. I didn't really expect some things either. lol
Phys chem. whatever. (lol... it's almost done. =P)
Now for Discipleship with LT I was supposed to have arranged something, sharing with a club leader or one of my friends or something. I was also supposed to have finished thinking about my goals for growing spiritually this year and starting to plan for how that can be done. I kinda lost the sheets and I didn't have time to work on it... So instead we just had a time of quiet reflection on a passage in the Bible. I read some of what I was reading earlier and it was so cool. I will post it in a separate post because it's pretty long. lol. [Click here! lol.] After that we talked about how we can reach out to clubs on campus and meet them where they are at. LT had talked to a leader of a humans rights club and he was really interested. Anyways, I sent facebook messages to the 'leaders' of M22 to see if we could meet up next week and discuss a collaborative event in January (the one about human trafficking) and they are all interested in meeting up, they are even going to talk to others and see if they want to meet up too. So, ya. I need to pray for those meetings and God working in their lives and me and LT sharing the gospel with four groups of possible like 1-6 people.
Next was a meeting with KC. I was a bit late, but it was a great meeting. KC seems really happy every time we meet. We read John 1 first (I had intended that we read 1 John 1, but this is cool too. We ended up reading 1 John later anyways. lol.) Then we went through the old-school version of the Spirit-filled life booklet. There is a lot of reading in that booklet, which is awesome. We read like a part of like half the books in the new testament. Our meeting was really great, but also a bit long. lol I had to run off to my orgo lab. I really want to see God strongly change KC and see him praying aloud with a passion.
The lab was really boring. lol. we dissolved cholesterone in ethanol then cooled it and filtered it.... lol.
I finally had my lunch at like 4:30 and watched Naruto and Shakugan no Shana 3 (which I am not telling NC about. lol.)
Then it was weekly meeting and we went through how to share again, but with more depth. Like, the Knowing God Personally booklets are cool, but they also leave a lot of room for elaboration and interactivity, so that was cool.
Then we went to RM's house for the C4C guys' night 'You had me at Bacon 2'. There was a lot of meat. lol. The chilli was awesome and the nachos were the best. lol. LT shared with us about what it means to be a man and how Jesus was not a feminine man. Authenticity, Servanthood and Initiative.
Then I got a drive home to go to sleep for 6 hours. xP
Ttyl.
D.Fa
Yesterday was pretty jam-packed with stuff. Phys Chem lecture, Discipleship meeting with LT, Discipleing with KC, organic chem lab, weekly meeting, and 'You had me at Bacon 2'. That is what was planned for yesterday and it mostly played out as expected, well I don't know. I didn't really expect some things either. lol
Phys chem. whatever. (lol... it's almost done. =P)
Now for Discipleship with LT I was supposed to have arranged something, sharing with a club leader or one of my friends or something. I was also supposed to have finished thinking about my goals for growing spiritually this year and starting to plan for how that can be done. I kinda lost the sheets and I didn't have time to work on it... So instead we just had a time of quiet reflection on a passage in the Bible. I read some of what I was reading earlier and it was so cool. I will post it in a separate post because it's pretty long. lol. [Click here! lol.] After that we talked about how we can reach out to clubs on campus and meet them where they are at. LT had talked to a leader of a humans rights club and he was really interested. Anyways, I sent facebook messages to the 'leaders' of M22 to see if we could meet up next week and discuss a collaborative event in January (the one about human trafficking) and they are all interested in meeting up, they are even going to talk to others and see if they want to meet up too. So, ya. I need to pray for those meetings and God working in their lives and me and LT sharing the gospel with four groups of possible like 1-6 people.
Next was a meeting with KC. I was a bit late, but it was a great meeting. KC seems really happy every time we meet. We read John 1 first (I had intended that we read 1 John 1, but this is cool too. We ended up reading 1 John later anyways. lol.) Then we went through the old-school version of the Spirit-filled life booklet. There is a lot of reading in that booklet, which is awesome. We read like a part of like half the books in the new testament. Our meeting was really great, but also a bit long. lol I had to run off to my orgo lab. I really want to see God strongly change KC and see him praying aloud with a passion.
The lab was really boring. lol. we dissolved cholesterone in ethanol then cooled it and filtered it.... lol.
I finally had my lunch at like 4:30 and watched Naruto and Shakugan no Shana 3 (which I am not telling NC about. lol.)
Then it was weekly meeting and we went through how to share again, but with more depth. Like, the Knowing God Personally booklets are cool, but they also leave a lot of room for elaboration and interactivity, so that was cool.
Then we went to RM's house for the C4C guys' night 'You had me at Bacon 2'. There was a lot of meat. lol. The chilli was awesome and the nachos were the best. lol. LT shared with us about what it means to be a man and how Jesus was not a feminine man. Authenticity, Servanthood and Initiative.
Then I got a drive home to go to sleep for 6 hours. xP
Ttyl.
D.Fa
6.11.11
October in a post. Also this evening.
I'm really really really really really really (add a few more 'really's) excited right now. lol
So, ya. This month hasn't been the best. I mean, with all the wasted time from procrastinating on top of the massive amounts of schoolwork I have had recently I haven't been able to go sharing on campus and talk with students about God or the gospel. I was getting really really frustrated at that. Ya. I mean with all the time God is giving me and all the opportunities just sitting there.
Ya. So, I've been really excited for my friend this week. She got accepted to go on STINT! I'm praying for her and praying for myself too. I really want to go on project again this year (as I'm sure you know by now... lol).
This month I've been able to meet up with KC a few times and do a couple short Bible lessons. Being able to spend time with him in God's word and even just having time to talk with him has been good. I think I value times spent with friends doing nothing in particular so much more now than I used to.
My one on one discipleship with LT has started too. I've really wanted discipleship for a while. We are going through a personal develop plan planning thing. I haven't had time to sit down and just ask God to help me with it though, so I'm not going anywhere with it right now...
Ya, this week has been pretty bad maybe..? I'm not too sure. lol (I feel like I just blogged this stuff earlier..?) Ya, but ya.... lol. Today was good. Have I ever mentioned that I sometimes serve as worship leader at my church (Ottawa Chinese Bible Church)? Well, I do sometimes and it's always pretty rough until the day of. Like, I'm not a very good leader in the sense that I don't authoritatively take lead unless there's no one else in the group that I feel is more suitable as leader. I also don't get around to finalizing the setlist until the night before practice and ya... But the day of everything seems to just click into place. xP
In Ottawa (Carleton and uOttawa) each year we have an event called 'The Epic Project Party' which is like an event to tell people in Campus for Christ about the available projects and opportunities to go to the world and go on a 1 or 6 week missions trip during reading week or the summer. Last year's was amazing (it sounded like) and again I had a midterm that prevented me from going. Apparently LT shared a really good metaphor. There's an orchard of apple trees, like 10000 acres. There is one owner of the orchard and the land. He hires 100 apple pickers and goes away because he's busy or something and asks them to pick the apples while he is gone. So there is the main building on the land and 94 of the workers stay within the 800 acres directly around the orchard and 6 workers went a bit further. All the trees were in season and producing good fruit, but the 94 workers worked and picked so many of the apples that they decided to start making better equipment and crates and ladders and procedures for picking the apples. They picked the trees clean. However, the other 6 workers had 9200 acres to work on. They worked non-stop and saw apples dropping all around them. They came back and saw all the new equipment and stuff, but the trees had been fully picked and the 94 weren't picking any more apples while there were thousands rotting just a bit further away. What would the owner say when he gets back? Did they do the job he left them?
In the same way, the harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few in the missions field. Matthew 9:37-38
There are statistics thrown around about how much of our resources are sent to the unreached population of the world that I can't remember at this exact moment, but it's really high, like only 3% of missionaries go to unreached areas..? (Don't quote me on that.)
In any case, this evening I got to go see a Japanese movie called 'Always: Sunset on Third Street 2' a film from 2007. It was really good. In the end love was stronger than money. It was a tear-jerker. lol I didn't go alone to the movie. No. I went with six other people. The International Student Services Office organized us going to see it. The volunteer in charge was from China, there were two girls from Japan, a guy from Greece, a guy from Poland, a guy from Nigeria and me. It was really good. I got to meet them and talk to them and build friendships. I ended up talking a lot with one girl K(?) a bit about East Asia and a bunch about random stuff like Saturday morning anime when we were kids. xP I also got to talk a lot with the guy from Poland, M(?). He's taking Law so we were talking about cases and stuff. About justice and so I brought up the case from the Un.Cover magazine and about the injustices done to Jesus, so basically I shared the gospel. xP We then talked on the bus too about East Asia. So, I was really excited about how God brought me out this evening and used me and will continue using me if I offer myself to be used.
I really see how the nations are brought to us on campus. How there are so many international students from all over the world and even Carleton campus is a missions field in itself. My friend JXW. Her mom is from the commonwealth of Dominica. I've really felt like I should talk to her about God. I mean, we're good friends now and that shouldn't stop me either. Gah.
Ya. Monday we are having an outreach on campus in one of the dorms. A pizza party thing in the lounge on one of the floors.
So, ya. Pray for me and Carleton and International students and projects (East Asia and Desert Rain projects are a go!) and STINT and for my connection with God (I'm still not having good quiet times) and stuff in general. Let's see where God leads me and let's see how many oportunites God gives me to rely on His Spirit and just proclaim the good news to those who are desperately in need of a Saviour.
D.Fa
So, ya. This month hasn't been the best. I mean, with all the wasted time from procrastinating on top of the massive amounts of schoolwork I have had recently I haven't been able to go sharing on campus and talk with students about God or the gospel. I was getting really really frustrated at that. Ya. I mean with all the time God is giving me and all the opportunities just sitting there.
Ya. So, I've been really excited for my friend this week. She got accepted to go on STINT! I'm praying for her and praying for myself too. I really want to go on project again this year (as I'm sure you know by now... lol).
This month I've been able to meet up with KC a few times and do a couple short Bible lessons. Being able to spend time with him in God's word and even just having time to talk with him has been good. I think I value times spent with friends doing nothing in particular so much more now than I used to.
My one on one discipleship with LT has started too. I've really wanted discipleship for a while. We are going through a personal develop plan planning thing. I haven't had time to sit down and just ask God to help me with it though, so I'm not going anywhere with it right now...
Ya, this week has been pretty bad maybe..? I'm not too sure. lol (I feel like I just blogged this stuff earlier..?) Ya, but ya.... lol. Today was good. Have I ever mentioned that I sometimes serve as worship leader at my church (Ottawa Chinese Bible Church)? Well, I do sometimes and it's always pretty rough until the day of. Like, I'm not a very good leader in the sense that I don't authoritatively take lead unless there's no one else in the group that I feel is more suitable as leader. I also don't get around to finalizing the setlist until the night before practice and ya... But the day of everything seems to just click into place. xP
In Ottawa (Carleton and uOttawa) each year we have an event called 'The Epic Project Party' which is like an event to tell people in Campus for Christ about the available projects and opportunities to go to the world and go on a 1 or 6 week missions trip during reading week or the summer. Last year's was amazing (it sounded like) and again I had a midterm that prevented me from going. Apparently LT shared a really good metaphor. There's an orchard of apple trees, like 10000 acres. There is one owner of the orchard and the land. He hires 100 apple pickers and goes away because he's busy or something and asks them to pick the apples while he is gone. So there is the main building on the land and 94 of the workers stay within the 800 acres directly around the orchard and 6 workers went a bit further. All the trees were in season and producing good fruit, but the 94 workers worked and picked so many of the apples that they decided to start making better equipment and crates and ladders and procedures for picking the apples. They picked the trees clean. However, the other 6 workers had 9200 acres to work on. They worked non-stop and saw apples dropping all around them. They came back and saw all the new equipment and stuff, but the trees had been fully picked and the 94 weren't picking any more apples while there were thousands rotting just a bit further away. What would the owner say when he gets back? Did they do the job he left them?
In the same way, the harvest is plentiful, but the labourers are few in the missions field. Matthew 9:37-38
There are statistics thrown around about how much of our resources are sent to the unreached population of the world that I can't remember at this exact moment, but it's really high, like only 3% of missionaries go to unreached areas..? (Don't quote me on that.)
In any case, this evening I got to go see a Japanese movie called 'Always: Sunset on Third Street 2' a film from 2007. It was really good. In the end love was stronger than money. It was a tear-jerker. lol I didn't go alone to the movie. No. I went with six other people. The International Student Services Office organized us going to see it. The volunteer in charge was from China, there were two girls from Japan, a guy from Greece, a guy from Poland, a guy from Nigeria and me. It was really good. I got to meet them and talk to them and build friendships. I ended up talking a lot with one girl K(?) a bit about East Asia and a bunch about random stuff like Saturday morning anime when we were kids. xP I also got to talk a lot with the guy from Poland, M(?). He's taking Law so we were talking about cases and stuff. About justice and so I brought up the case from the Un.Cover magazine and about the injustices done to Jesus, so basically I shared the gospel. xP We then talked on the bus too about East Asia. So, I was really excited about how God brought me out this evening and used me and will continue using me if I offer myself to be used.
I really see how the nations are brought to us on campus. How there are so many international students from all over the world and even Carleton campus is a missions field in itself. My friend JXW. Her mom is from the commonwealth of Dominica. I've really felt like I should talk to her about God. I mean, we're good friends now and that shouldn't stop me either. Gah.
Ya. Monday we are having an outreach on campus in one of the dorms. A pizza party thing in the lounge on one of the floors.
So, ya. Pray for me and Carleton and International students and projects (East Asia and Desert Rain projects are a go!) and STINT and for my connection with God (I'm still not having good quiet times) and stuff in general. Let's see where God leads me and let's see how many oportunites God gives me to rely on His Spirit and just proclaim the good news to those who are desperately in need of a Saviour.
D.Fa
31.10.11
大大前天 和 大前天
Ok, I've been pretty buried in light work recently. I've also been not at home during the time I normally blog, so ya. This will be a summary..?
Thursday:
I honestly don't remember much about Thursday. >.> I'm pretty sure it was a jam packed day of classes and labs. I think I wasted a lot of time again on facebook and youtube and was really feeling guilty and upset with myself for all of the time I have wasted this week. I still had a lab report due on Friday and I really hadn't done very much of it. By this point I was hoping to have been done and able to start the next lab report which was due monday. I don't think I stayed up too late..?
Friday:
I walked to school because I had planned on not biking home. My first discipling with LT. He had bought a new camera app for his new phone. Well, he also had this really cool smart alarm clock app that measures how much you roll around while sleeping and from that tells when you are in REM, light or deep sleep and wakes you up when you are almost awake up to half an hour before your actual alarm time. It seems really cool. We started going over my personal development plan. As JW knows, I'm not always the most responsive or thoughtful person, and when it got to the question about which verse or promise you'd like to claim for the year, or which command or exhortation to keep in mind, I had nothing. I prayed about it. I had two phrases come to mind: 'feed my sheep' and 'keep in step with the Spirit'. >.< Hmmm... LT thought that the first one might have something to do about loving God more, which is definitely something I need to grow in. I really don't know why these came to mind. I hadn't read those verses in a while. I intend to reread them soon.
I then left to go to my meeting with KC. Today's lesson was about our relationship and fellowship with God. Our relationship as children of God, offered to all who believe, is not broken ever. However, unconfessed sin can break our fellowship with God. When it came to 'repentance' and the definition given being 'a change in attitude which will result in a change of action', I asked if he could give an example. He, ya, didn't think the same way I was asking the question, I meant, like based on this definition is there a 'real-life' (meaning not sin-related) example that fits it? So, I gave this example about how I use microwavable plastic containers. My housemates keep telling me how it's not healthy. My change in attitude towards the plastic containers would lead to me not using them anymore. (Fyi, my attitude to microwaveable plastic containers has not changed, so kinda a bad example, but anyways...) I'm excited to continue meeting with him and I really hope God changes him and does great things through him.
Chem lab- shorter than usual.
Then I got to help LT carry pumpkins into the C4C weekly meeting room. Then I was official greeter. !!! Two of the guys I followed up with back in the beginning of September finally came to Weekly Meeting!!! Not that this is the only way to get involved, but it's the fastest way of integrating, making new friends, seeing what C4C is about and feeling the full experience. BS and MdS! Anyways, during Weekly meeting JB gave her first talk. Later we carved pumpkins! They were really cool and it was a lot of fun. Then we smashed two of the four pumpkins because no one wanted them. We went to Loeb and stood on the roof and dropped them like two floors. XP (We cleaned it up.)
Then me and AL bussed to EE's house. She was having a movie marathon. One reason we went was actually just so that we had somewhere we could be during another video chat with our EA family. This was done mainly for MC who wasn't able to join us last time, however, she couldn't join us again. lol. I got to see PW finally!!!!!!!!!!!!! T.T Typing this right now is making me tear too... I swear, that was like the saddest moment ever (recently), leaving her alone at the hotel and bussing to the airport without really having a good goodbye... and she was crying... T.T But she was her happy, crazy, super asian self again. T.T (tears of joy) We'll need to do it again for MC and because not everyone was on at once. xP
So, in the end, at EE's I ate a pile of candy (my main meal of the day), watched part of 'Psycho' and the start of 'the Shining', video chatted in EE's room, and slept through the rest of 'The Shining'... lol... We got a drive home from AL's nocturnal (I'm exagerating) dad at like 4am.
(more summary to come later)
Thursday:
I honestly don't remember much about Thursday. >.> I'm pretty sure it was a jam packed day of classes and labs. I think I wasted a lot of time again on facebook and youtube and was really feeling guilty and upset with myself for all of the time I have wasted this week. I still had a lab report due on Friday and I really hadn't done very much of it. By this point I was hoping to have been done and able to start the next lab report which was due monday. I don't think I stayed up too late..?
Friday:
I walked to school because I had planned on not biking home. My first discipling with LT. He had bought a new camera app for his new phone. Well, he also had this really cool smart alarm clock app that measures how much you roll around while sleeping and from that tells when you are in REM, light or deep sleep and wakes you up when you are almost awake up to half an hour before your actual alarm time. It seems really cool. We started going over my personal development plan. As JW knows, I'm not always the most responsive or thoughtful person, and when it got to the question about which verse or promise you'd like to claim for the year, or which command or exhortation to keep in mind, I had nothing. I prayed about it. I had two phrases come to mind: 'feed my sheep' and 'keep in step with the Spirit'. >.< Hmmm... LT thought that the first one might have something to do about loving God more, which is definitely something I need to grow in. I really don't know why these came to mind. I hadn't read those verses in a while. I intend to reread them soon.
I then left to go to my meeting with KC. Today's lesson was about our relationship and fellowship with God. Our relationship as children of God, offered to all who believe, is not broken ever. However, unconfessed sin can break our fellowship with God. When it came to 'repentance' and the definition given being 'a change in attitude which will result in a change of action', I asked if he could give an example. He, ya, didn't think the same way I was asking the question, I meant, like based on this definition is there a 'real-life' (meaning not sin-related) example that fits it? So, I gave this example about how I use microwavable plastic containers. My housemates keep telling me how it's not healthy. My change in attitude towards the plastic containers would lead to me not using them anymore. (Fyi, my attitude to microwaveable plastic containers has not changed, so kinda a bad example, but anyways...) I'm excited to continue meeting with him and I really hope God changes him and does great things through him.
Chem lab- shorter than usual.
Then I got to help LT carry pumpkins into the C4C weekly meeting room. Then I was official greeter. !!! Two of the guys I followed up with back in the beginning of September finally came to Weekly Meeting!!! Not that this is the only way to get involved, but it's the fastest way of integrating, making new friends, seeing what C4C is about and feeling the full experience. BS and MdS! Anyways, during Weekly meeting JB gave her first talk. Later we carved pumpkins! They were really cool and it was a lot of fun. Then we smashed two of the four pumpkins because no one wanted them. We went to Loeb and stood on the roof and dropped them like two floors. XP (We cleaned it up.)
Then me and AL bussed to EE's house. She was having a movie marathon. One reason we went was actually just so that we had somewhere we could be during another video chat with our EA family. This was done mainly for MC who wasn't able to join us last time, however, she couldn't join us again. lol. I got to see PW finally!!!!!!!!!!!!! T.T Typing this right now is making me tear too... I swear, that was like the saddest moment ever (recently), leaving her alone at the hotel and bussing to the airport without really having a good goodbye... and she was crying... T.T But she was her happy, crazy, super asian self again. T.T (tears of joy) We'll need to do it again for MC and because not everyone was on at once. xP
So, in the end, at EE's I ate a pile of candy (my main meal of the day), watched part of 'Psycho' and the start of 'the Shining', video chatted in EE's room, and slept through the rest of 'The Shining'... lol... We got a drive home from AL's nocturnal (I'm exagerating) dad at like 4am.
(more summary to come later)
21.10.11
The Warmth of Love
Okay, so I have just had two meetings and they were awesome. lol
First was a meeting with LT and B(?) concerning discipleship groups and one-on-one discipling, which is awesome. xP I really wanted to have a discipler, and LT is really cool (and a ninja, just saying) so that will be great. Part of discipling apparently is helping the disciple accomplish goals and help them fuel their personal passion and vision. So, LT will be helping me with what I see God calling me to, how I think God can use me to reach this campus and the world. Of course, this is all by God's grace and Holy Spirit in our lives empowering us. It's not me learning to be LT, it's both of us working together to take God at His word and encourage each other, etc. So that was cool. I also got to share about East Asia and how the students we met when they received Christ were so excited and found a hope and strength.
Anyways, next I had a meeting with KC. As I have said before, I haven't been able to really talk with him about God or spiritual stuff in a while and how he has developed a social anxiety. We got to meet up in a quieter location and have a good conversation. From this meeting I have seen how we are in fact friends (which is something I've been having trouble with), the fact that God never leaves us, and I got to hear what he thinks is the major difference in his life. So, we talked a bit about school and this week and stuff, then pretty bluntly "I wanted to ask you, since praying to receive Jesus last year, how has your life changed?" lol. (JW. lol.) He answered about how his life feels 'warmer' now and how he has been brought from isolation into community. That's awesome. We were not meant to live in isolation, but live in community. We were made for relationship. I also found out about how he has been talking with his aunt whenever he has problems and how she helps him by giving Biblical advice and praying for him. Also, very awesome.
We also did the first lesson of follow-up material that we used in EA. It was about how God never leaves us, how we are His children, how nothing can separate us from Him and how we have been given eternal life. These lessons are highly packed with Scripture, which is great because it's God's word and God speaks to us through it. KC read all of the verses (and there were a lot. lol) There will be a lesson later on the Bible, but I told him about how it is God's word and true, which is why we can look to it and find truths. The lesson is pretty straight forward, only really two or three open ended questions and the rest can be answered verbatim from the verses.
It was good. Excellent. I'm so glad that we finally got to do this and that he wants to continue doing so.
Also, he prays for his friends. So good.
Anyways, God is awesome. Even when I thought KC might have drifted a bit from God and lost the peace that God gives us, the hope He gives us, the love we experience; He hasn't. God is always with us even to the very end.
PTL
=D.Fa
First was a meeting with LT and B(?) concerning discipleship groups and one-on-one discipling, which is awesome. xP I really wanted to have a discipler, and LT is really cool (and a ninja, just saying) so that will be great. Part of discipling apparently is helping the disciple accomplish goals and help them fuel their personal passion and vision. So, LT will be helping me with what I see God calling me to, how I think God can use me to reach this campus and the world. Of course, this is all by God's grace and Holy Spirit in our lives empowering us. It's not me learning to be LT, it's both of us working together to take God at His word and encourage each other, etc. So that was cool. I also got to share about East Asia and how the students we met when they received Christ were so excited and found a hope and strength.
Anyways, next I had a meeting with KC. As I have said before, I haven't been able to really talk with him about God or spiritual stuff in a while and how he has developed a social anxiety. We got to meet up in a quieter location and have a good conversation. From this meeting I have seen how we are in fact friends (which is something I've been having trouble with), the fact that God never leaves us, and I got to hear what he thinks is the major difference in his life. So, we talked a bit about school and this week and stuff, then pretty bluntly "I wanted to ask you, since praying to receive Jesus last year, how has your life changed?" lol. (JW. lol.) He answered about how his life feels 'warmer' now and how he has been brought from isolation into community. That's awesome. We were not meant to live in isolation, but live in community. We were made for relationship. I also found out about how he has been talking with his aunt whenever he has problems and how she helps him by giving Biblical advice and praying for him. Also, very awesome.
We also did the first lesson of follow-up material that we used in EA. It was about how God never leaves us, how we are His children, how nothing can separate us from Him and how we have been given eternal life. These lessons are highly packed with Scripture, which is great because it's God's word and God speaks to us through it. KC read all of the verses (and there were a lot. lol) There will be a lesson later on the Bible, but I told him about how it is God's word and true, which is why we can look to it and find truths. The lesson is pretty straight forward, only really two or three open ended questions and the rest can be answered verbatim from the verses.
It was good. Excellent. I'm so glad that we finally got to do this and that he wants to continue doing so.
Also, he prays for his friends. So good.
Anyways, God is awesome. Even when I thought KC might have drifted a bit from God and lost the peace that God gives us, the hope He gives us, the love we experience; He hasn't. God is always with us even to the very end.
PTL
=D.Fa
3.10.11
Sum it up!
So, guys, Summit was this weekend.
I guess I kinda kept comparing it to last year's Summit. In comparison, well it can't even be compared. I have changed so much through God's work in my life. I mean last year at Summit I was so focused on worship and couldn't even sing (which was actually humbling). I didn't really meet anyone other than the guys. I slept through a couple sessions. It was cold and there was a large competition between campuses leading to isolation rather than unity in many cases. Even through all that God really enforced that I should share the gospel with my friend KC and to just take a step in faith and share my faith for the first time with someone. So, I went for it and just asked him one day when we were walking in the halls. He accepted Christ into his life and he began an exciting new life.
He started going to church and Young Adults fellowship. He went to a discipleship group a couple times.
He began growing more distant from these things for reasons such as work or other things.
I wasn't in his classes anymore in second semester and I didn't end up seeing him very much at all the rest of the year...
We texted each other here and there, but I wasn't in Ottawa during the summer and ya... When I got the follow-up material in East Asia, I thought about going through it with him. God placed it on my heart. I know he hasn't really read very much of the Bible and has drifted from fellowship. God kept telling me to disciple him one on one.
When I got back this year I found out we had a class together! Yay! We have been talking a bit after every class. He has developed a social anxiety and has trouble with people now. This put a halt on my plans to reintegrate him into C4C or church, but reemphasized the one-on-one discipling... I was kinda scared of the idea and didn't know how to bring it up. I prayed for it semi-reluctantly, but kept pushing it off.
I was doing follow-up of people who said they'd like to meet up with someone from C4C and I was going all out and burning out. No time for KC.
Then it was Summit time again. I'm so glad I got to go and fellowship with everyone. Although I didn't know anyone from the other four campuses, everyone was warm and welcoming (there was no stupid balloon competition and the rival schools were in the same cabins as each other so there were no pranks) and it was a great weekend. The new national director spoke about Thessolonica as a world-changing community and God was there that weekend.
At the end as usual were the faith barriers and asking God to help us break them down. There were a bunch of smaller things, but I didn't know what to do. I ended up writing a huge paragraph of ways I could be more faithful than I am now and then writing a similar, but different version on the front of my Bible (I will post it seaprately). Oh, also I got to see GS grow in his walk with God and JH too. They both didn't know where they stood or what they believed, but they came to summit and I'm sure they were changed.
Anyways, one of the things I wrote down was to disciple KC. I need God's help on this. I am not a natural teacher. However, there is hope and God has given us his Spirit as helper. At summit there was this girl from Carleton who gave her testimony. Last year she wouldn't have been able to come to Summit, let alone speak in front of 100 people. She had social anxiety, but she prayed that God would heal her. She couldn't keep living the way she was. God can heal KC.
Yesterday I had class with KC. I accidentally forgot I had it and was half an hour late. >.> Way to start. After class we were talking. I had (short notice) invited him to Summit. He ended up playing video games and doing readings and staying home the whole weekend. But we ended up on the topic of the discovery groups were were having or something and he said 'I don't really know very much about the Bible, so I wouldn't have very much to say' or something and so I asked 'Well, I actually have some lessons I was thinking of going through with you, if you'd like. Do you want to?' or something and he enthusiastically said yes with a smile on his face!
Awesome!!!!! Day 1 back from summit and even though I was late to class, dying tired and pretty hungry the only conversation I had with him ended up with the discipling lessons even though I was not the one to ask him directly out of context, what he said led to it.
My God is awesome, yo.
=D.Fa
I guess I kinda kept comparing it to last year's Summit. In comparison, well it can't even be compared. I have changed so much through God's work in my life. I mean last year at Summit I was so focused on worship and couldn't even sing (which was actually humbling). I didn't really meet anyone other than the guys. I slept through a couple sessions. It was cold and there was a large competition between campuses leading to isolation rather than unity in many cases. Even through all that God really enforced that I should share the gospel with my friend KC and to just take a step in faith and share my faith for the first time with someone. So, I went for it and just asked him one day when we were walking in the halls. He accepted Christ into his life and he began an exciting new life.
He started going to church and Young Adults fellowship. He went to a discipleship group a couple times.
He began growing more distant from these things for reasons such as work or other things.
I wasn't in his classes anymore in second semester and I didn't end up seeing him very much at all the rest of the year...
We texted each other here and there, but I wasn't in Ottawa during the summer and ya... When I got the follow-up material in East Asia, I thought about going through it with him. God placed it on my heart. I know he hasn't really read very much of the Bible and has drifted from fellowship. God kept telling me to disciple him one on one.
When I got back this year I found out we had a class together! Yay! We have been talking a bit after every class. He has developed a social anxiety and has trouble with people now. This put a halt on my plans to reintegrate him into C4C or church, but reemphasized the one-on-one discipling... I was kinda scared of the idea and didn't know how to bring it up. I prayed for it semi-reluctantly, but kept pushing it off.
I was doing follow-up of people who said they'd like to meet up with someone from C4C and I was going all out and burning out. No time for KC.
Then it was Summit time again. I'm so glad I got to go and fellowship with everyone. Although I didn't know anyone from the other four campuses, everyone was warm and welcoming (there was no stupid balloon competition and the rival schools were in the same cabins as each other so there were no pranks) and it was a great weekend. The new national director spoke about Thessolonica as a world-changing community and God was there that weekend.
At the end as usual were the faith barriers and asking God to help us break them down. There were a bunch of smaller things, but I didn't know what to do. I ended up writing a huge paragraph of ways I could be more faithful than I am now and then writing a similar, but different version on the front of my Bible (I will post it seaprately). Oh, also I got to see GS grow in his walk with God and JH too. They both didn't know where they stood or what they believed, but they came to summit and I'm sure they were changed.
Anyways, one of the things I wrote down was to disciple KC. I need God's help on this. I am not a natural teacher. However, there is hope and God has given us his Spirit as helper. At summit there was this girl from Carleton who gave her testimony. Last year she wouldn't have been able to come to Summit, let alone speak in front of 100 people. She had social anxiety, but she prayed that God would heal her. She couldn't keep living the way she was. God can heal KC.
Yesterday I had class with KC. I accidentally forgot I had it and was half an hour late. >.> Way to start. After class we were talking. I had (short notice) invited him to Summit. He ended up playing video games and doing readings and staying home the whole weekend. But we ended up on the topic of the discovery groups were were having or something and he said 'I don't really know very much about the Bible, so I wouldn't have very much to say' or something and so I asked 'Well, I actually have some lessons I was thinking of going through with you, if you'd like. Do you want to?' or something and he enthusiastically said yes with a smile on his face!
Awesome!!!!! Day 1 back from summit and even though I was late to class, dying tired and pretty hungry the only conversation I had with him ended up with the discipling lessons even though I was not the one to ask him directly out of context, what he said led to it.
My God is awesome, yo.
=D.Fa
26.9.11
Stuff.
Hey. Here's some stuff:
-My dad says my brother is better at parallel parking than me... >.>
-I'm eating delicious cookies right now. lol CW's first batch of beer-grain cookies.
-Yesterday I made my first real meal in this house and it was delicious.
-Phys Chem labs are boring. So boring.
-Summit is this weekend!!!
-I feel that I should disciple KC. Hmmm...
-I feel it's time for the talk with SC.
-Tennis is fun. Especially with a new racket!
-My shorts ripped on my bike... T.T
-I'm wearing this shirt for the first time ever.
-Temptation happens so much more when the distance between me and God increases.
-Gotta do more school work.
D.Fa
3.9.11
I was offered a Gatorade, so I guess it's okay.
When you are a mover, as I learned from Seinfeld, you are supposed to be offered a drink. One guy actually did offer us some of his gatorades.
Anyways, today I had a whole day, whole body workout. This was accomplished by day 1 of students moving into residence at Carleton. Frosh Facils apparently bond and cheer and act over the top this weekend in preparation for frosh week. Well, actually, the majority of people in res are frosh, so this is technically frosh week now. >.>
So. The way this worked was I woke up early, walked to school, waited at the meeting place, and then the day began. We would all eagerly await the cars that would pull up. Then we'd chant 'Pop That Trunk!' with claps on the words. Cheer enthusiastically as it popped open. Ask where it was going, then take an armful of stuff. Drag it up the stairs, or wait for the elevator (in which case we'd practice being sardines. literally sealed and packaged with oil) and get to their door. We'd then have a drum roll as they reach for their keys and go to swipe. As it opens, more enthusiastic cheering. Welcoming and kind words as we unload and leave. Run down the stairs. Redo.
At the start of the day I was not happy about being there. I was not happy about not knowing anyone on my team.
Hauling massive amounts of clothes, water bottles and various other stuff all over the res was a lot of fun. I went to Prescott, Renfrew, Lanark, Frontenac and Leeds! When I went to Leeds (which is on the other side of the campus basically) it was to help an international student from India who had just got to school from the airport after a 36 hour flight! I'm really glad that Carleton has an ISC to help International Students.
Umm. Ya. By the end of the day I was so pumped to be out there and just meet these first year students! I'm really glad I have signed up for the Language Exchange Program and the Orientation Mentorship Program! I'm really excited to get out there and start mentoring and maybe even discipling first year guys!
I also got to see three of my friends and help them move in. DK, SC and CC.
Anyways, I need to sleep again. I also need to buy books eventually... >.> When? Who knows. >.>
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. I think it's pretty awesome that I didn't burn out today. 9 hours of hard labour and having a smile on my face the whole time. I didn't have breakfast either. lol. Thank God for getting me through it!
PPS. My mom is going home tomorrow. Pray for her. She's going to be very weak. She's been in a bed for nearly two weeks. Very thankfully, however, she is going home and the whole problem with [prescription/over the counter] drugs and stuff is worked out and she should be way better off than she was before.
Anyways, today I had a whole day, whole body workout. This was accomplished by day 1 of students moving into residence at Carleton. Frosh Facils apparently bond and cheer and act over the top this weekend in preparation for frosh week. Well, actually, the majority of people in res are frosh, so this is technically frosh week now. >.>
So. The way this worked was I woke up early, walked to school, waited at the meeting place, and then the day began. We would all eagerly await the cars that would pull up. Then we'd chant 'Pop That Trunk!' with claps on the words. Cheer enthusiastically as it popped open. Ask where it was going, then take an armful of stuff. Drag it up the stairs, or wait for the elevator (in which case we'd practice being sardines. literally sealed and packaged with oil) and get to their door. We'd then have a drum roll as they reach for their keys and go to swipe. As it opens, more enthusiastic cheering. Welcoming and kind words as we unload and leave. Run down the stairs. Redo.
At the start of the day I was not happy about being there. I was not happy about not knowing anyone on my team.
Hauling massive amounts of clothes, water bottles and various other stuff all over the res was a lot of fun. I went to Prescott, Renfrew, Lanark, Frontenac and Leeds! When I went to Leeds (which is on the other side of the campus basically) it was to help an international student from India who had just got to school from the airport after a 36 hour flight! I'm really glad that Carleton has an ISC to help International Students.
Umm. Ya. By the end of the day I was so pumped to be out there and just meet these first year students! I'm really glad I have signed up for the Language Exchange Program and the Orientation Mentorship Program! I'm really excited to get out there and start mentoring and maybe even discipling first year guys!
I also got to see three of my friends and help them move in. DK, SC and CC.
Anyways, I need to sleep again. I also need to buy books eventually... >.> When? Who knows. >.>
Ttyl.
D.Fa
PS. I think it's pretty awesome that I didn't burn out today. 9 hours of hard labour and having a smile on my face the whole time. I didn't have breakfast either. lol. Thank God for getting me through it!
PPS. My mom is going home tomorrow. Pray for her. She's going to be very weak. She's been in a bed for nearly two weeks. Very thankfully, however, she is going home and the whole problem with [prescription/over the counter] drugs and stuff is worked out and she should be way better off than she was before.
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