Last Post of 2008
3:21 PM | Author: Josh W
Well Folks it's been a great couple of months since I got here in September and I just want to thank you for all the prayers you've given me through out this year ever since I started my facebook group at the start of the summer. This last week has been a very strange week but things are starting to get back into a "normal" measure. I'm not going to get into the detail of it because it's something that we have to work on together as a Kaleo community but I will ask for some prayer for it because it can make or break our community.

Starting a week ago we did our guys overnight trip and we went out to mystic beach for some fun times. So we had some great guy bonding time there. The negative of that was that I chose to fall into a wave instead of into the sand when I lost my footing on one of the logs and got completely drenched. Here's a thought, lets take 13 young adults to a beach in December and give them free reign to do whatever they want to do for a day, fun fun fun, you can just guess what happened.

After exciting times at the beach we returned home for a crazy ending youth group at Warmland. well that's exactly what it was, and now i'm missing about 50-1oo strands of hair because now the boys are pulling my hair as well, oh joy. Still it was a great youth group and I had tons of fun hanging out with the boys in our small group. Before the night started our group prayed and I'm thinking that because of that extra prayer we got more out of our boys and I'm looking forward to the new year and those boys because their walk with God is just starting and I'm excited to see where they are going in the near future.

Then came the talent show. I'm sure if you guys have looked at the Kaleo blog then you would have seen some of the crazy skits we had. My skit consisted of teaching the Kaleo students the art of hugging and how to properly hug another guy or a girl who is just a friend. I did not teach the girlfriend hug because that would be awkward. Anyways this had been a great week and although Kaleo is awesome I am looking forward to going home and seeing everyone while I'm there.
Why So Early?!?
6:34 AM | Author: Josh W
So I'm writing this blog post at 6:15 in the freaking morning so its not late because the Kaleo boys are going to Mystic Beach today and if I don't get this in today it's late. So I'm going to test my writing skills while my brain is not yet working.

Anyways this week was a week of class called Foundations of Church Ministry with David Lee. Yeah I know it sounds really boring but it was actually a great class that I really enjoyed. (maybe I should have done my pre-course work...) Anyways the experience that I had in this class was cool because Prof. Lee basically took 5 minutes on the first day to explain what the churches problems were and then spent the rest of the time caring about fixing these problems and teaching us how to help. We also learned what our Spiritual gifts our and I descovered that my top gifts included counseling and music, cool huh? I kinda knew that the counseling one was coming but I never actually knew that my love of music was a gift that God has blessed me with. I'm thrilled to get to grow in that gift and use it to glorify Christ.

Along with class came yet another week of youth group "torture" as my toque was actually taken and not given back until sunday for the first time since the year started. But hey I got 5 pixie sticks for it :) yeah but I'm really starting to love these kids and I really feel a passion to help further to help lead them to Christ. Does that mean staying out here again next year? maybe I don't know yet. But through this week I've learned to trust God alot more and let him lead my future. I don't know if you all know, but that is HUGE for me. I've always been one to want to lead my own life and I've always looked forward to being independent but now that I'm learning to trust God I'm ready to get him to lead my life.

I also went for a road trip up island a bit to Nanimo (I didn't spell that right) and had a really good time up there. And also had a really good talk with Erin on the way back and had my faith renewed in the group that I can acutally get into a deeper Christian talk with one of the girls. Yeah, slowly our Kaleo family is starting to come together.

Anways thats all I have to say for now, I'm going to try and get some more sleep before I have to leave for the Beach. Later everyone!