wet wet

Vancouver is getting the brunt of some weather fronts which means it is quite erm wet! But other then that its an amazing place to be. I moved back to Kitsilano this weekend, and I am now staying with an amazing couple Dennis and Anne, who are wonderful; really welcoming, plus its great to finally have my own space and a permanent address. They also have the cutest dog, who's slightly mad! They are a 2 second walk from the beach and tons of great shops and a 5 minute bus ride from the church, so its an awesome location!

Pais, is going from strength to strength, we have 2 school clubs on a wednesday, 1 lunch time club with students from Uhill (the teachers asked for it to be in the church and are looking for us to integrate the students into Uchapel’s Friday night youth programme, which is way more then we expected) we then have Eric Hambur’s HOST programme from 3.15pm-4.15pm on a Monday and Wednesday. We then have a meeting with Lord Byng on Monday to arrange a start date, so that pretty awesome too. We get our Pais uniforms tomorrow, so its out off the smart wear and into jeans! woo!

Youth group! wow! again its like where do I start! Tom was off last week, due to the safe arrival of Tom Oliver Matthew (or oliver), so Youth Group was run by Tanis, Kris and Me! What an amazing team effort and what fruit did we see! On Wednesday Kris and I ran CATCH, and when worshiping to a cd wasnt the same as worshiping with Tom, I decided we would worship in silence - the effect, wow, immedtiatly there was quiet and later on I put some hard hitting songs on lightly in the background. From there we looked a few deep verses, and gave them a chance to have a say in what social they would like to on the Friday (the church was being decorated for a wedding).

On Friday we headed out to DQ - diary queen for you british people-, for a pretty amazing time of eating icecream and just hanging out with each other, and then we headed over to someone basement. Tanis, Kris and I had prepared nothing to do, although we had looked over a few verses and chatted a bit about the plan for the next few weeks before hand. Yet on the walk between DQ and the house we decided we needed to highlight something that had occured and apply some things. we ended up chatting for 30-40 mins and when it came to 9pm we couldnt believe it. The youth where amazing, silence, input when needed etc, and you could see what we where saying hit home and the cogs ticking! The evening just totally flowed with all of us - Kris, Tanis and I bouncing of each other. We'rent sure how they would respond to us, doing some stuff as it was advertised as a social, yet man!!! Tanis, Kris and I then had a cool chat afterwards about application and where we need to go and things that we can do to help the youth!

Its all pretty sweet stuff!! so yeah watch this space too!

(happy birthday pove! teehee your getting old...keep away from the grannie with zimmer frames :p)

p.s exciting news..everyday so far while ive been with anne and dennis i have recieved a letter or parcel...(dunno about today yet) so i had a letter with stuff in from mum when i arrived, an awesome box from my brilliant sister Laura on Monday with all sorts of goodies all wrapped nicely! and yesterday i recieved some galaxay and green and black chocolate. yummy!! cheers guys!! and keep them coming :P i really should get some paper so I can start writing letters home... now its a thought.. maybe soon it wil be fruitful,..