so its;
3: more sleeps until i board a plane
3: days travelling untill i arrive home; friday, saturday and sunday
34: the age that first came out of a students mouth! woop lol! its ok he though denai was older too.
well i cant wait to home, and catch up, but most importantly see, cuddle and kiss the most amazing boy ever: JIM you rock and I love you tons! for those that may feel left out, im looking forward to christmas eve, bridesmaid dress fittings - if u pay me enough :P only for the quality time with becky, waxing sams legs, excusrions, gigs. church and seeing what the heck my famoly have done to the house! oh and driving but that doesnt involve anyone.
if people would like to donate food - thanks mush's gran we are looking forawrd to tea- and provide me with much needed english staple goodness; baked beans, sasuages, bacon, shepards pie, roast dinner with yorkshirs and NO salad, apple crumble/apple pie n custard, fish n chips, all the chrisps you cnat buy over here, english chocolate - basically anything feel free to donate to the keep Rosie alive fund! as a speacial treat she will eat it in front of you and provide conversation and intresting stories! sound good?
Tuesday, December 19, 2006
Wednesday, December 06, 2006
sweet
well i just e-mailed Chester about rejecting my application and Dot who runs the coruse see's no problem with it, remembers who I am and asks me loads of questions which is neat!
also we had a sweet 1st time at simon fraser with the grade 7, really interactive and wild which is ace! really exiciting, cant wait to see where it leads us!
Jim
p.s. my computer charger is playing up, so sometimes i might have battery sometimes i might not! but im getting a new one when i go home... for those intrested i get home on the 24th dec and fly bk out on the 6th jan
also we had a sweet 1st time at simon fraser with the grade 7, really interactive and wild which is ace! really exiciting, cant wait to see where it leads us!
Jim
p.s. my computer charger is playing up, so sometimes i might have battery sometimes i might not! but im getting a new one when i go home... for those intrested i get home on the 24th dec and fly bk out on the 6th jan
Tuesday, November 28, 2006
parcel!!
woooo!!!
when i got home 30 mins ago there was post for anne and dennis but nothing for me, when anne came in about a minute there was a red n blue air pack for me.. from my daddy! :)
in it was:
*the shortest note ever - but hes a man we forgive him!
*lindt extra creamy milk chocolate 100g
* 2 x dairy milk (like normal size) bars
* mini toblerone
* n the weirdest thing yet..4 marshmellows in a toblerone packet...erm
when i got home 30 mins ago there was post for anne and dennis but nothing for me, when anne came in about a minute there was a red n blue air pack for me.. from my daddy! :)
in it was:
*the shortest note ever - but hes a man we forgive him!
*lindt extra creamy milk chocolate 100g
* 2 x dairy milk (like normal size) bars
* mini toblerone
* n the weirdest thing yet..4 marshmellows in a toblerone packet...erm
Monday, November 27, 2006
Sunday, November 26, 2006
today!!
meet the view from room! although not always as pretty!
not only did i have a great time with the snowball fight at church but guess what i just did??
thats right, I brought in snow in a tub and heated some maple syrup and made candy!! :)
then I went outside and man a huge snowman - with a top hat and all! in the middle anne came to take pictures and dennis, anne and I had some fun chucking snowballs around! I then finished the snowman! all in all it was a good day!! (partly because I got to see joel - d'oh im in trouble that little guy has won my heart!)
(ps met anne and chole - i think anne might not be happy! i will take a photo she like soon! buts its a snow day soo what can i do! i am not impressed with mine either!!)
p.p.s since i took these photos and made my snowman - whose head has now gone! while we where eatying dinner, the only thing that shows we made a mess of the yard is the snowman!! the rest is covered again!! woooop
News!!
I tried to e-mial this out, but it never left :(
Hello!
Attached are 2 separate updates; one from me and one written on behalf of the team!
Thanks for all your support, prayers and encouragement. I love being here, but knowing that you guys are rooting for me back home makes all the difference, I really appreciate it.
God bless
Rosie
From ME:
Dear Friends,
Things have been going great since I last wrote to you! Lots of great things have been happening again with both youth work and with Pais.
I was thrilled to see the KLC website up and running, its great to be able to hear what is happening back home, and be able to listen to some familiar voices.
Below is a schedule of what my Pais week looks like (check out the post):
The schools work is going really well. On Monday and Wednesdays we get the chance to help students at Eric Hambur with their homework, and we are already starting to build relationships with the students! We start a lunch time club in Simon Fraser on Tuesday lunch, and we start in Lord Byng on Thursday after school with a café which is exciting. So far I haven’t been into U-Hill yet, because on a Wednesday I do youth work with Tom and we don’t start on Friday lunchtimes until the New Year.
I have started attending a pastorate every other Tuesday, and home group on the Thursdays that im not at pastorate. Im looking forward, to being able to have the chance to, grow and develop spiritually in these. Its also a great chance to get to know people, as the pastorate is part of Utown and the home group in part of PGCC.
Youth at PGCC is really flowing; we are starting to bring up real practical issues and having some good debates. I can already see growth, in the short time I’ve been here, and im looking forward to doing some childcare duties with some of the girls tomorrow night at the CD release party. On Friday night Tanis, Kris and I shared our testimonies and it was a really special time; I loved watching God work as we spoke! Tanis is organising a penny drive for the youth, so we can do something practical in the community, and its great to see how the youth are getting on board, and hopefully as we get the church involved too, it will highlight the youth and how we can unite with the church body to have an impact on the society around us.
Last week on Wednesday we had a lot of rain, so we woke up on Thursday there was a water advisory and water a dirt brown. The water is still cloudy and the advisory still in place so we are still drinking bottled water. When we boiled filtered water yesterday the bottom of the pan had a thick layer on it, so its looking like it will be in place for a while.
Im getting on really well with Anne and Dennis, and we have some great laughs about the food – they have salad with everything; and by salad I mean lettuce, honey, goats cheese and cranberries! I’ve heard some weird stories about marshmallow, jelly and pine nut salad with turkey, which they eat at Christmas, so im glad to be coming home!
Im looking forward to returning at Christmas, although it looks like im going to be busy, it’s going to be great to catch up. When I return back to Canada in January and Paul Gibbs the director comes up, we will be discussing about who’s staying for the next year on Pais, and jobs will be offered. I’ve been thinking and praying about this, and im strongly feeling that I will return to Canada for another year on Pais.
Prayer Points:
• More favour with the students and the schools
• Denai (she keeps getting sick)
• Youth group as we journey together.
God bless
Rosie Honeywell
From the TEAM:
Good morning!!
I wanted to send out another email to update you all on what has been happening here for us on the Westside.
Before I say anything else too....we just wanted to recognise that all these amazing things and opportunities that have been coming our way have been from the Lord and His building of His Kingdom. It is so so exciting for us to be a part of what is happening here! There are so many things coming our way, and its totally because of Him and what He is doing.
So on Monday saw us at Lord Byng High School for our final planning meeting, and we discussed a start date for our Café. Ms Taddei felt that a lunch club would be another club too many for the students to attend, so she suggested that we shift it to an after school café that runs for just over an hour. The aim of the club is to have a place for students to connect with each other and the outside of the community, which fulfils a part of the schools new growth plan. They want to see more connections with the outside community, and the Principle said that what we were discussing with her to do was perfect. We start Thursday the 30th of November, and our advertising in the school starts this coming Monday.
We had a meeting with Simon Fraser and the Grade 7 Students to find out what it is they want us to do with them on a lunch time. We had many a comical answer, including one that went ‘well not one of us is fundamentally the same, so the diversity means that we cannot find one common ground’ most of the students giggled, and I suggested that he could help co-ordinate the club with us………so we shall wait and see how that one turns out. Some kids suggested skiing, and kicking a can around, but on the whole we should be seeing activities such as hip-hop dancing (anyone know any grooves?) and possibly some movie watching (although I think its quite hard to find decent movies that are suitable anymore….) And a chance for students to get off campus for an hour to have some time to themselves to hang out. We are looking to start next Tuesday lunchtime.
Yesterday was our first homework club at University Hill, and we had a total amount of 0 students. This is a new thing for U Hill to start, and with a turn out like that, Ms Heines, the sponser teacher, suggested we just stick to our games club on a Wednesday and starting a games ‘mini’ in January to get to know the students and then we can go from there in terms of getting the students to a homework class. She also said that there may well be no scope for it at all because the kids generally just want to get out of school, and some go home to a tutor. Their main need may just be some positive role models in their lives.
The mini that starts in January is another afternoon hour of games, the aim being to get to know the students, and in the words of Ms Heines herself shift them over to your place. The teachers and Principle, when they asked us about our social programs we have at Church, loved our Friday Night Café and expressed an interest in inviting their students. They also suggested that we hold the mini in our youth area after getting to know the students well. Which is really quite exciting…………………
Eric Hamber is going really well. We had a cancellation last week due to power failure at the school, but Mondays’ after school session started with a large group of Bio 12 students learning about Cell Structure. And I got down to work with solving some algebraic equations. I was also lent a Math 9 textbook to brush up on my skills…….which I really enjoyed!! And yes, I did spend an hour that evening doing algebra, and I actually loved it. Hehehe…
Anyway. That is where we are at for now. If you would like to join us in prayer, here are a few things we are praying for at the moment:
-Relationship with schools to continue to grow. I’d love to see really good friendships forming with both students and teachers.
-Our team as we desire to continue to grow closer and become more and more united. Unity is so powerful and such a witness to others about God’s love and character….
-For our personal eternal perspectives as we really start getting to know students and have opportunities to speak into their lives.
If you want to talk more about anything, feel free to call or email anytime.
Bless you all so much
Amy, Denai and Rosie.
Hello!
Attached are 2 separate updates; one from me and one written on behalf of the team!
Thanks for all your support, prayers and encouragement. I love being here, but knowing that you guys are rooting for me back home makes all the difference, I really appreciate it.
God bless
Rosie
From ME:
Dear Friends,
Things have been going great since I last wrote to you! Lots of great things have been happening again with both youth work and with Pais.
I was thrilled to see the KLC website up and running, its great to be able to hear what is happening back home, and be able to listen to some familiar voices.
Below is a schedule of what my Pais week looks like (check out the post):
The schools work is going really well. On Monday and Wednesdays we get the chance to help students at Eric Hambur with their homework, and we are already starting to build relationships with the students! We start a lunch time club in Simon Fraser on Tuesday lunch, and we start in Lord Byng on Thursday after school with a café which is exciting. So far I haven’t been into U-Hill yet, because on a Wednesday I do youth work with Tom and we don’t start on Friday lunchtimes until the New Year.
I have started attending a pastorate every other Tuesday, and home group on the Thursdays that im not at pastorate. Im looking forward, to being able to have the chance to, grow and develop spiritually in these. Its also a great chance to get to know people, as the pastorate is part of Utown and the home group in part of PGCC.
Youth at PGCC is really flowing; we are starting to bring up real practical issues and having some good debates. I can already see growth, in the short time I’ve been here, and im looking forward to doing some childcare duties with some of the girls tomorrow night at the CD release party. On Friday night Tanis, Kris and I shared our testimonies and it was a really special time; I loved watching God work as we spoke! Tanis is organising a penny drive for the youth, so we can do something practical in the community, and its great to see how the youth are getting on board, and hopefully as we get the church involved too, it will highlight the youth and how we can unite with the church body to have an impact on the society around us.
Last week on Wednesday we had a lot of rain, so we woke up on Thursday there was a water advisory and water a dirt brown. The water is still cloudy and the advisory still in place so we are still drinking bottled water. When we boiled filtered water yesterday the bottom of the pan had a thick layer on it, so its looking like it will be in place for a while.
Im getting on really well with Anne and Dennis, and we have some great laughs about the food – they have salad with everything; and by salad I mean lettuce, honey, goats cheese and cranberries! I’ve heard some weird stories about marshmallow, jelly and pine nut salad with turkey, which they eat at Christmas, so im glad to be coming home!
Im looking forward to returning at Christmas, although it looks like im going to be busy, it’s going to be great to catch up. When I return back to Canada in January and Paul Gibbs the director comes up, we will be discussing about who’s staying for the next year on Pais, and jobs will be offered. I’ve been thinking and praying about this, and im strongly feeling that I will return to Canada for another year on Pais.
Prayer Points:
• More favour with the students and the schools
• Denai (she keeps getting sick)
• Youth group as we journey together.
God bless
Rosie Honeywell
From the TEAM:
Good morning!!
I wanted to send out another email to update you all on what has been happening here for us on the Westside.
Before I say anything else too....we just wanted to recognise that all these amazing things and opportunities that have been coming our way have been from the Lord and His building of His Kingdom. It is so so exciting for us to be a part of what is happening here! There are so many things coming our way, and its totally because of Him and what He is doing.
So on Monday saw us at Lord Byng High School for our final planning meeting, and we discussed a start date for our Café. Ms Taddei felt that a lunch club would be another club too many for the students to attend, so she suggested that we shift it to an after school café that runs for just over an hour. The aim of the club is to have a place for students to connect with each other and the outside of the community, which fulfils a part of the schools new growth plan. They want to see more connections with the outside community, and the Principle said that what we were discussing with her to do was perfect. We start Thursday the 30th of November, and our advertising in the school starts this coming Monday.
We had a meeting with Simon Fraser and the Grade 7 Students to find out what it is they want us to do with them on a lunch time. We had many a comical answer, including one that went ‘well not one of us is fundamentally the same, so the diversity means that we cannot find one common ground’ most of the students giggled, and I suggested that he could help co-ordinate the club with us………so we shall wait and see how that one turns out. Some kids suggested skiing, and kicking a can around, but on the whole we should be seeing activities such as hip-hop dancing (anyone know any grooves?) and possibly some movie watching (although I think its quite hard to find decent movies that are suitable anymore….) And a chance for students to get off campus for an hour to have some time to themselves to hang out. We are looking to start next Tuesday lunchtime.
Yesterday was our first homework club at University Hill, and we had a total amount of 0 students. This is a new thing for U Hill to start, and with a turn out like that, Ms Heines, the sponser teacher, suggested we just stick to our games club on a Wednesday and starting a games ‘mini’ in January to get to know the students and then we can go from there in terms of getting the students to a homework class. She also said that there may well be no scope for it at all because the kids generally just want to get out of school, and some go home to a tutor. Their main need may just be some positive role models in their lives.
The mini that starts in January is another afternoon hour of games, the aim being to get to know the students, and in the words of Ms Heines herself shift them over to your place. The teachers and Principle, when they asked us about our social programs we have at Church, loved our Friday Night Café and expressed an interest in inviting their students. They also suggested that we hold the mini in our youth area after getting to know the students well. Which is really quite exciting…………………
Eric Hamber is going really well. We had a cancellation last week due to power failure at the school, but Mondays’ after school session started with a large group of Bio 12 students learning about Cell Structure. And I got down to work with solving some algebraic equations. I was also lent a Math 9 textbook to brush up on my skills…….which I really enjoyed!! And yes, I did spend an hour that evening doing algebra, and I actually loved it. Hehehe…
Anyway. That is where we are at for now. If you would like to join us in prayer, here are a few things we are praying for at the moment:
-Relationship with schools to continue to grow. I’d love to see really good friendships forming with both students and teachers.
-Our team as we desire to continue to grow closer and become more and more united. Unity is so powerful and such a witness to others about God’s love and character….
-For our personal eternal perspectives as we really start getting to know students and have opportunities to speak into their lives.
If you want to talk more about anything, feel free to call or email anytime.
Bless you all so much
Amy, Denai and Rosie.
Saturday, November 25, 2006
snow!!!
well its snowing and its sticking and its perfect for snowballs, snowmen..... wooooooop
nice evening in with dennis and anne; pizza, movie, wine and snow :)
well it snowd through the night n we now have 5-10cm! during the break between the church services i had a snowball fight with: joel, tom, jen - toms aunt, whos pretty sweet-, kris, cal and some otheres pretty good fun:)
I know...
...
why I'm called to do youth work!!
when I was helping out with the childcare last night during the PGCC and Utown cd release party - www.pgcc.org/homecd - which by the way is pretty awesome, you should check it out! In which Tom performed a song he wrote with Liz, its very country n very not Tom, but surprisingly good, even thought he caused me and emma to be in fits of laughter.. Tom dont worry we still love n respect you :)
so I had a room full of kids, with the wonderful helpers emma, angela and brianne. I thought stick the dvd cars on and sit back and relax. OH HOW WRONG!!!
most of the kids that didnt want to watch it where fine, we got some toys out at the back of the room. but when the wanted mummy, or we had to check their nappies, or they tried to ecaspe or just where plain annoying! and me and emma never got to relax or see cars!
erm yes, I am VERY glad, happy, overjoyed etc.. that Im called to Youth Work.
(although donna has roped me in to help with sunday school on the 3rd dec n the 17th arghghghghghghghghgh)
why I'm called to do youth work!!
when I was helping out with the childcare last night during the PGCC and Utown cd release party - www.pgcc.org/homecd - which by the way is pretty awesome, you should check it out! In which Tom performed a song he wrote with Liz, its very country n very not Tom, but surprisingly good, even thought he caused me and emma to be in fits of laughter.. Tom dont worry we still love n respect you :)
so I had a room full of kids, with the wonderful helpers emma, angela and brianne. I thought stick the dvd cars on and sit back and relax. OH HOW WRONG!!!
most of the kids that didnt want to watch it where fine, we got some toys out at the back of the room. but when the wanted mummy, or we had to check their nappies, or they tried to ecaspe or just where plain annoying! and me and emma never got to relax or see cars!
erm yes, I am VERY glad, happy, overjoyed etc.. that Im called to Youth Work.
(although donna has roped me in to help with sunday school on the 3rd dec n the 17th arghghghghghghghghgh)
Thursday, November 23, 2006
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
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,..
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,..
Friday, November 03, 2006
guess what?...
...
Eric Hamber here we come!
We start on monday, helping out with the HOST program from 3.15-4.15 :) we've been asked to also do wednesdays but as me and denai are with our youth pastors amy will have to go alone possibly unless we juggle some things around! fun!
we also had a phone call off Uhill yesterday on the way to Eric Hamber and Amy looked extermly happy, and sounds dead excited. I think we are going to be providing after school/lunch time clubs...
well its wet and rainy, but im nice and snug inside my apartment :) I had marmite on toast for breakfast yum yum good old english resources!
check out my joint blog for details on a brocklewell breakfast...
Eric Hamber here we come!
We start on monday, helping out with the HOST program from 3.15-4.15 :) we've been asked to also do wednesdays but as me and denai are with our youth pastors amy will have to go alone possibly unless we juggle some things around! fun!
we also had a phone call off Uhill yesterday on the way to Eric Hamber and Amy looked extermly happy, and sounds dead excited. I think we are going to be providing after school/lunch time clubs...
well its wet and rainy, but im nice and snug inside my apartment :) I had marmite on toast for breakfast yum yum good old english resources!
check out my joint blog for details on a brocklewell breakfast...
Friday, October 27, 2006
lettter home 2
26th October 2006
Dear All,
Amazing stuff is happening in Canada, especially within the youth group at PGCC. I don’t know where to start! I’m not going to apologise for the long update, as I need to create a full picture and Tom and I are thinking that because such amazing stuff is going to happen the devil will try and stop it, so you would love you to pray for strength for the youth and leaders.
On Friday 13th October, we had the most amazing youth group. Tom and I had planned a session on Jesus the Leader, but God scraped those plans! And came down in the most totally amazing way. Tom wrote an update on the youth blog which will make more sense then if I tried to tell you so here’s the link: http://utownchurch.com/youthblog/ Since then we have had some amazing times in Gods presence at CATCH, just allowing God to move. The youth are starting to really get it, and I’m amazed at how their prayers have changed and their increased sensitivity to the Spirit. Here’s an example of how they’ve blown me away; I received a e-mail last week asking if the youth could pray for Tom to bless and encourage him, they then went a step further and during the Campus Fire weekend, brought him cards, a cake and biscuits and set it all out!
Some of the youth attended Campus Fire; Sam, Holly, Emma, Kjell, Ken, Hannah, Simi, Cal, Milo (Saturday), with Tanis and Tom, with Kris attending on the Saturday with Joel and Liz. I was happy to see that they ‘adopted’ John Lunn – Youth Pastor of Marine View Chapel, and Jason and Ellis. The weekend was amazing, from what I can gather and in the short chats I’ve had with them, they seem to be wanting to go to the next level, so we just need ot work out how we can equip and help them in this.
I did attended Campus Fire, but I was working for the weekend, as Pais helped to run the conference. This meant I couldn’t sit in on any of the sessions or really join the worship, but let me tell every time I needed to go into the main session for work, now matter how short a time span, I came out buzzing! Something great was happening it there! I had an awesome weekend, manning the Pais stand, sorting out odd jobs and helping with hospitality – we had a huge number of well know speakers, and 2 bands that needed to be looked after. It was great to be able to serve, and we where privileged to have some amazing volunteers.
Liz is due to have her baby this weekend, so Tom’s been busy making sure I have all the youth information and access to the church. Quite scary, as I will be making sure that youth group happens etc! But really cool and important, that we can bless Tom and Liz in this time and give them family time.
Pais has been going brilliantly J Im loving it, and cant believe I’ve been here for such a short time. I feel really at home, with the team and church.
Answered prayers:
• We’ve been given some finances as a team, so we’ve been able to purchase a printer and some office supplies.
• The schools are really opening up.
We’ve had meeting with four schools and will be doing a wide range of activities. We’ve had amazing favour and the schools seem to be really on board with what we are doing.
1. Lord Byng – we’ve been asked to help set up a café area for the students to hang out at lunch times, with the aim of releasing students into leadership and running leadership workshops
2. Simon Fraser – we will be providing a lunch club for grades 6 & 7, creating a safe environment and a sense of ownership. We are going to have a meeting with the grades 6 & 7 to discuss what they would like us to provide.
3. Eric Hamber – would like us to become learning assistants as part of the volunteer programme already in place.
4. University Hill (Uhill) – we will be helping with ESL.
We have training on a Thursday morning, and so far we have covered topics such as the trinity and the 10 commandments. Here’s a interesting snippet from yesterday talk on the 10 commandments, about the misuse of God’s name. God used to be called YHWH.
YHWH – only name is 10 top words used in the OT – the rest are words like and, it etc
- appears 6,879 times
The Jews stopped using it! They avoided risk by not saying it- they where so afraid of using it wrongly that they stopped using it – they’d say adonai. They took vowels for adonai and put into YHWH which made Yahowah – Jenovah. Jenovah is nonsense! Its not Gods name, when you see LORD in your bible it should be YHWH
I’ve moved in with Kelsey, and its pretty cool! Living downtown is pretty awesome although I haven’t had much chance to maximise it, with staying in white rock for Campus Fire and my family being here this weekend. It’s a sweet apartment with some amazing views – when its not foggy! And I have access to a cinema style rooms, gym, sauna, hot tub, swimming pool etc!
Prayer points:
• Youth group – continual anointing, protection
• Tom and Liz
• Pais:Thailand – the directors flew out this week and the team follows in January.
• Amy, Denai and I
• Schools
• Where next? By January when Paul Gibbs comes out, we need to have thought and decided about staying on a second year or not. Its obliviously not a quick decision, as all sorts of things need to be though of; finances, flights etc and of course if God’s telling me to stay here,
Thanks for everying!
God bless
Rosie Honeywell
Intern
Pais::Canada
Westside team
Dear All,
Amazing stuff is happening in Canada, especially within the youth group at PGCC. I don’t know where to start! I’m not going to apologise for the long update, as I need to create a full picture and Tom and I are thinking that because such amazing stuff is going to happen the devil will try and stop it, so you would love you to pray for strength for the youth and leaders.
On Friday 13th October, we had the most amazing youth group. Tom and I had planned a session on Jesus the Leader, but God scraped those plans! And came down in the most totally amazing way. Tom wrote an update on the youth blog which will make more sense then if I tried to tell you so here’s the link: http://utownchurch.com/youthblog/ Since then we have had some amazing times in Gods presence at CATCH, just allowing God to move. The youth are starting to really get it, and I’m amazed at how their prayers have changed and their increased sensitivity to the Spirit. Here’s an example of how they’ve blown me away; I received a e-mail last week asking if the youth could pray for Tom to bless and encourage him, they then went a step further and during the Campus Fire weekend, brought him cards, a cake and biscuits and set it all out!
Some of the youth attended Campus Fire; Sam, Holly, Emma, Kjell, Ken, Hannah, Simi, Cal, Milo (Saturday), with Tanis and Tom, with Kris attending on the Saturday with Joel and Liz. I was happy to see that they ‘adopted’ John Lunn – Youth Pastor of Marine View Chapel, and Jason and Ellis. The weekend was amazing, from what I can gather and in the short chats I’ve had with them, they seem to be wanting to go to the next level, so we just need ot work out how we can equip and help them in this.
I did attended Campus Fire, but I was working for the weekend, as Pais helped to run the conference. This meant I couldn’t sit in on any of the sessions or really join the worship, but let me tell every time I needed to go into the main session for work, now matter how short a time span, I came out buzzing! Something great was happening it there! I had an awesome weekend, manning the Pais stand, sorting out odd jobs and helping with hospitality – we had a huge number of well know speakers, and 2 bands that needed to be looked after. It was great to be able to serve, and we where privileged to have some amazing volunteers.
Liz is due to have her baby this weekend, so Tom’s been busy making sure I have all the youth information and access to the church. Quite scary, as I will be making sure that youth group happens etc! But really cool and important, that we can bless Tom and Liz in this time and give them family time.
Pais has been going brilliantly J Im loving it, and cant believe I’ve been here for such a short time. I feel really at home, with the team and church.
Answered prayers:
• We’ve been given some finances as a team, so we’ve been able to purchase a printer and some office supplies.
• The schools are really opening up.
We’ve had meeting with four schools and will be doing a wide range of activities. We’ve had amazing favour and the schools seem to be really on board with what we are doing.
1. Lord Byng – we’ve been asked to help set up a café area for the students to hang out at lunch times, with the aim of releasing students into leadership and running leadership workshops
2. Simon Fraser – we will be providing a lunch club for grades 6 & 7, creating a safe environment and a sense of ownership. We are going to have a meeting with the grades 6 & 7 to discuss what they would like us to provide.
3. Eric Hamber – would like us to become learning assistants as part of the volunteer programme already in place.
4. University Hill (Uhill) – we will be helping with ESL.
We have training on a Thursday morning, and so far we have covered topics such as the trinity and the 10 commandments. Here’s a interesting snippet from yesterday talk on the 10 commandments, about the misuse of God’s name. God used to be called YHWH.
YHWH – only name is 10 top words used in the OT – the rest are words like and, it etc
- appears 6,879 times
The Jews stopped using it! They avoided risk by not saying it- they where so afraid of using it wrongly that they stopped using it – they’d say adonai. They took vowels for adonai and put into YHWH which made Yahowah – Jenovah. Jenovah is nonsense! Its not Gods name, when you see LORD in your bible it should be YHWH
I’ve moved in with Kelsey, and its pretty cool! Living downtown is pretty awesome although I haven’t had much chance to maximise it, with staying in white rock for Campus Fire and my family being here this weekend. It’s a sweet apartment with some amazing views – when its not foggy! And I have access to a cinema style rooms, gym, sauna, hot tub, swimming pool etc!
Prayer points:
• Youth group – continual anointing, protection
• Tom and Liz
• Pais:Thailand – the directors flew out this week and the team follows in January.
• Amy, Denai and I
• Schools
• Where next? By January when Paul Gibbs comes out, we need to have thought and decided about staying on a second year or not. Its obliviously not a quick decision, as all sorts of things need to be though of; finances, flights etc and of course if God’s telling me to stay here,
Thanks for everying!
God bless
Rosie Honeywell
Intern
Pais::Canada
Westside team
Monday, October 23, 2006
sorry
sorry for the fact that its been ages since i posted!
Ive been really busy with one thing after another; showing tom vancouver/hanging out and then helping run campus fire - a conference- this weekend, i havent ha dmuch chance to update, especailyl as kelesys doesnt have wirelss internet and you all know how i am on pcs. also my family arrive in vancouver on thurs so...
short update:
* youth group on the friday 13th was awesome! God totally changed our plans and we had an awesome time, we over ran for over an hr and yeah check out the youth blog.. linked off www.pgcc.org
* campus fire was amazing, my youth group attended and tom's being getting e-mails from parents! they kids wanted to bless tom and did so in the way of a cake, biscuts and a card! totally awesome moment! i cant waited to be updated fully on all that happened, as i was involved in the running of the conference. i met some awesome people at the conference, speakers and and the like but also we had soem pretty cool volunteers.
* doors are opening like crazy into schools and amazing meetings are happening. watch this space we will soon be on campus!
* tom came over for a week, so we got to hang out, meet rose, see my youth group and a fairly typical church service. He also managed to serve the pais team in the form of spray painting signs for Campus Fire and freeing up me and Rose to do other tasks - which wherent handed out :( lol
* ive got to hang out with kelesy - i moved while tom was here, last sunday to a condo on the 15th floor, in an amazing postition with awesome views on david lam park. i have access to a gym, pool, squash courts, 2 cinema style rooms, hot tub, sauna. rose needs to come visit pretty soon! im only here for a few weeks, so really should make the most of it. its pretty cool being with soemone young and weve had some pretty cool chats.
its getting cooler here but its ok :)
Ive been really busy with one thing after another; showing tom vancouver/hanging out and then helping run campus fire - a conference- this weekend, i havent ha dmuch chance to update, especailyl as kelesys doesnt have wirelss internet and you all know how i am on pcs. also my family arrive in vancouver on thurs so...
short update:
* youth group on the friday 13th was awesome! God totally changed our plans and we had an awesome time, we over ran for over an hr and yeah check out the youth blog.. linked off www.pgcc.org
* campus fire was amazing, my youth group attended and tom's being getting e-mails from parents! they kids wanted to bless tom and did so in the way of a cake, biscuts and a card! totally awesome moment! i cant waited to be updated fully on all that happened, as i was involved in the running of the conference. i met some awesome people at the conference, speakers and and the like but also we had soem pretty cool volunteers.
* doors are opening like crazy into schools and amazing meetings are happening. watch this space we will soon be on campus!
* tom came over for a week, so we got to hang out, meet rose, see my youth group and a fairly typical church service. He also managed to serve the pais team in the form of spray painting signs for Campus Fire and freeing up me and Rose to do other tasks - which wherent handed out :( lol
* ive got to hang out with kelesy - i moved while tom was here, last sunday to a condo on the 15th floor, in an amazing postition with awesome views on david lam park. i have access to a gym, pool, squash courts, 2 cinema style rooms, hot tub, sauna. rose needs to come visit pretty soon! im only here for a few weeks, so really should make the most of it. its pretty cool being with soemone young and weve had some pretty cool chats.
its getting cooler here but its ok :)
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Jim
spot the random people from back home and look out in future blogs for updates and different people!
It was an exciting weekend because i got to speak to Jim on webcam!! How awesome is that!! However I will now start at the start of a beautiful long lazy thanksgiving weekend!
Bits of news I've accidently missed out through being to busy!!
* I had dinner with the Colby's - lovely family, whose cat is adorable. Cal's awesome and goes to youth group. I also babysat them, and had fun playing games.
* I lead a bible study in purity which was pretty cool
* A black and white cat jumped out of the bushes at me on the way to PGCC and gave me a look, an then started following me then stopped and watched me walk to church!
* I attened worship invasion which was pretty cool and an awesome time of intercessory prayer also
Rhiannon and Dom; cool ickle brother and sister who send sweet messages! They make me chuckle and this photo captures them at their best! The photo was taken by Becky my oldest sister.. whose soon to make the family bigger.. Welcome Colin!! more on them other time. Anyhows i look forward to showing these ickle 2 (and the rest of the crew) around my new home, when they come to visit, they will love it, almost as much as I do, and I bet Rhiannon cant wait to meet Joel.
* Ive been having awesome awesome prayer sessions!! so cool
* We nearly have our Pais uniform.. bring on jeans.
* Where On Earth - Sam, Johnny, Tom and Luke 'released' their music to the world.. sssh I already had it lol! They are some of the most amazing friends ever, and Im blessed to have these guys in my life! Their music is rocking so check out www.whereonearth.net or www.myspace.com/whereonearthband and listen to some of the tunes!
On Friday we had youth group, where I did a little bit on worship and then we worshiped in various ways - singing, building blocks, arts and crafts, brainstorming. We had some really cool stuff, check out the PGCC and Utown youth blog..http://utownchurch.com/youthblog/
Saturday started off okay because I got a lie-in, however they first thing i did was listen to the Saints lose! Not impresses, but then Tim and Melissa came round for pancakes so I cheered up slightly! I then went to metro-town with ROSE!! and we investigated sim cards - it costs a ton to activate the stupid things!! I then went to Rose's where we mad some canadian potato things and had a bit of online fun - you'll know when you become a recipent of certain e-mails possibly that youve caught me and rose together! I had my first ever canadian dinner (well... ill come to that later) of sasuages, pasta, courgettes and salad. We then ate sweets while watching a dodgy film... not bad dodgy just no plot and rather boring! We then saw a racoon - check out our joint blog.
Heres a pic of my gorgeous amazing Jen!! I miss her tons!! She is truly inspiring and going to lead such an amazing life! She really rocks this world, and I dont know where I would be without her smiling cheery face and amazing hugs!! Keep going gal I love you!!
Sunday started with Tom telling me my hair was fine, but me finding out when I got to Utown that it was infact a mess. Utown was cool, and we did 'youth' where we sat in a hallway and discussed highs, lows and random facts then prayed. I then had Swiss Chalet Thanskgiving dinner and got to chill with the youth and play some card games which was cool. After the youth section Tom said to the youth that he had been silly and forgotten to arrange for me to have a thanksgiving dinner so if anyone had a spare place could they invite me lol. so Sam went to his dad (which is another awesome fact, sam goes to youth and attends a different church, but helped lead Utown on worship on his bass on sunday!) and said can we have rosie over for dinner, when his dad had been feeling all service like he should invite me other, so of course I acepted the invite. Then Tom came bounding over and he had gotten me another invite but it was all cool because Liz, Joel and Tom went and had yummy food.
Sam is an amazing buddy who can me laugh and cry all in one go! I wouldnt be where I am today without him, and for that I am extermely grateful. Yeah Sam, your one rocking, amazing, awe inpsiring, beautiful, funny, ambitious lad. Cheers for the great years of friendship, I hope there are many more. My life wouldnt be the same without you.
On Monday I had a nice lie in, and got to speak to Jim (n Mum and Dad and Luce) over webcam before heading over to Sam, Mike, Darlene and Peter's for thanksgiving. They had a cat!! We had turkey, cranberry sauce, yams, some potato things that where yummy, cabbage rolls, beans, and yummy pumpkin pie and apple pie goodness(such a rose word!).
the truly amazing mush!! She is such an awesome buddy, remember her in your prayers!! Mush is the coolest Christian of the school lot and my awesome faith camp buddy! I love you tons :)
Today was campus fire day and it was mad!! I spray painted signs, and made name badges and did all sorts of funny things!!
Tomorrow I go to my first ever PGCC and Utown staff meeting with Tom, which should be cool.
At the end of the week, I move in with Kelesy, which although Im sure is going to be awesome, I am actually feeling quite sad about leaving the Sopwiths, who have been amazing. And I will really miss Joel, Kipper, Bob, Bath time and playing cars! I will have to take him to the park and to the sea to bop! Liz and Tom have been superstars in putting up with me, and I will really miss them, especially the laughs... if only we had pictures of us all on the floor with icecream buckets on our heads thanks to Joel! truely amusing.. but I reckon you had to be there! Yeah here at the Sopwiths feels like home :)
It was an exciting weekend because i got to speak to Jim on webcam!! How awesome is that!! However I will now start at the start of a beautiful long lazy thanksgiving weekend!
Bits of news I've accidently missed out through being to busy!!
* I had dinner with the Colby's - lovely family, whose cat is adorable. Cal's awesome and goes to youth group. I also babysat them, and had fun playing games.
* I lead a bible study in purity which was pretty cool
* A black and white cat jumped out of the bushes at me on the way to PGCC and gave me a look, an then started following me then stopped and watched me walk to church!
* I attened worship invasion which was pretty cool and an awesome time of intercessory prayer also
Rhiannon and Dom; cool ickle brother and sister who send sweet messages! They make me chuckle and this photo captures them at their best! The photo was taken by Becky my oldest sister.. whose soon to make the family bigger.. Welcome Colin!! more on them other time. Anyhows i look forward to showing these ickle 2 (and the rest of the crew) around my new home, when they come to visit, they will love it, almost as much as I do, and I bet Rhiannon cant wait to meet Joel.
* Ive been having awesome awesome prayer sessions!! so cool
* We nearly have our Pais uniform.. bring on jeans.
* Where On Earth - Sam, Johnny, Tom and Luke 'released' their music to the world.. sssh I already had it lol! They are some of the most amazing friends ever, and Im blessed to have these guys in my life! Their music is rocking so check out www.whereonearth.net or www.myspace.com/whereonearthband and listen to some of the tunes!
On Friday we had youth group, where I did a little bit on worship and then we worshiped in various ways - singing, building blocks, arts and crafts, brainstorming. We had some really cool stuff, check out the PGCC and Utown youth blog..http://utownchurch.com/youthblog/
Saturday started off okay because I got a lie-in, however they first thing i did was listen to the Saints lose! Not impresses, but then Tim and Melissa came round for pancakes so I cheered up slightly! I then went to metro-town with ROSE!! and we investigated sim cards - it costs a ton to activate the stupid things!! I then went to Rose's where we mad some canadian potato things and had a bit of online fun - you'll know when you become a recipent of certain e-mails possibly that youve caught me and rose together! I had my first ever canadian dinner (well... ill come to that later) of sasuages, pasta, courgettes and salad. We then ate sweets while watching a dodgy film... not bad dodgy just no plot and rather boring! We then saw a racoon - check out our joint blog.
Heres a pic of my gorgeous amazing Jen!! I miss her tons!! She is truly inspiring and going to lead such an amazing life! She really rocks this world, and I dont know where I would be without her smiling cheery face and amazing hugs!! Keep going gal I love you!!
Sunday started with Tom telling me my hair was fine, but me finding out when I got to Utown that it was infact a mess. Utown was cool, and we did 'youth' where we sat in a hallway and discussed highs, lows and random facts then prayed. I then had Swiss Chalet Thanskgiving dinner and got to chill with the youth and play some card games which was cool. After the youth section Tom said to the youth that he had been silly and forgotten to arrange for me to have a thanksgiving dinner so if anyone had a spare place could they invite me lol. so Sam went to his dad (which is another awesome fact, sam goes to youth and attends a different church, but helped lead Utown on worship on his bass on sunday!) and said can we have rosie over for dinner, when his dad had been feeling all service like he should invite me other, so of course I acepted the invite. Then Tom came bounding over and he had gotten me another invite but it was all cool because Liz, Joel and Tom went and had yummy food.
Sam is an amazing buddy who can me laugh and cry all in one go! I wouldnt be where I am today without him, and for that I am extermely grateful. Yeah Sam, your one rocking, amazing, awe inpsiring, beautiful, funny, ambitious lad. Cheers for the great years of friendship, I hope there are many more. My life wouldnt be the same without you.
On Monday I had a nice lie in, and got to speak to Jim (n Mum and Dad and Luce) over webcam before heading over to Sam, Mike, Darlene and Peter's for thanksgiving. They had a cat!! We had turkey, cranberry sauce, yams, some potato things that where yummy, cabbage rolls, beans, and yummy pumpkin pie and apple pie goodness(such a rose word!).
the truly amazing mush!! She is such an awesome buddy, remember her in your prayers!! Mush is the coolest Christian of the school lot and my awesome faith camp buddy! I love you tons :)
Today was campus fire day and it was mad!! I spray painted signs, and made name badges and did all sorts of funny things!!
Tomorrow I go to my first ever PGCC and Utown staff meeting with Tom, which should be cool.
At the end of the week, I move in with Kelesy, which although Im sure is going to be awesome, I am actually feeling quite sad about leaving the Sopwiths, who have been amazing. And I will really miss Joel, Kipper, Bob, Bath time and playing cars! I will have to take him to the park and to the sea to bop! Liz and Tom have been superstars in putting up with me, and I will really miss them, especially the laughs... if only we had pictures of us all on the floor with icecream buckets on our heads thanks to Joel! truely amusing.. but I reckon you had to be there! Yeah here at the Sopwiths feels like home :)
Saturday, October 07, 2006
letter home
ok i wrote this before the news about the schoools but still:
28th September 2006
Dear Friends.
As you know I am in Vancouver, Canada, working with the PAIS (www.paisproject.com) for a year, while also working with Point Grey Community Church -PGCC- (www.pgcc.org) and their church plant Utown.
As you know I went to Dallas, Texas, for my Pais training, where we trained with the USA teams also. We covered topics such as ministry essentials and kingdom principles. I was truly bless by the family I was staying with and while in Texas, I know God really worked in my life. After two weeks training in Texas the Canadian department flew to Vancouver to do an extra weeks cultural training.
Pais’ aim is ‘missionaries making missionaries’ and to build bridge between the schools and the churches. I am part of a pioneer team to the Westside, which means that we haven’t gone into school yet unlike the other two teams in Vancouver. My team leader Amy and team member Denai, are great to work with and im really excited about what we can offer to schools. At the moment we have had a little trouble getting in contact with the schools, as the people we need to talk to are busy. We managed to get in contact with one school – University hill, however they have no space for us to help them with after-school clubs, but they are interested in the team tutoring the young people.
Pais goes into the schools offering a variety of different resources each school can tap into; assemblies on moral standards, healthy lifestyles, CAPP, and self confidence. We also provide things like sports clubs, workshops, lunch clubs, tutoring, homework classes, mentoring and anything the school would like us to get involved in.
As a pioneer team, we have no resources and no money, so we are relying on donations, if and when they come in. This means we have no office supplies – paper, pens, cardboard, paints, printer -, and basically are in need of money to buy the resources so we can be professional when we go into schools. We would also love regular support, of even small amounts per month, manage our money and be able to be consistent in what we are providing.
If you feel you would like to support what my Pais team and I are doing this year, please contact me and let me know. This can be through finances, or prayer support. If you would like to support the team in prayer, let me know your e-mail address and I can send you prayer requests and updates.
Pais is helping organise a conference called Campus Fire, and it is aimed at equipping high school student to effectively minister to their peers, through leading lunchtime clubs. It’s a great chance to explore different areas that arise when arranging an event, and im also looking forward to being a PA to some guest speaker during the weekend.
At PGCC everyone has been really welcoming and I can’t wait to be part of what God has to do it the church over the year. Im working in Tom Sopwith, the youth pastor, and he’s an amazing British man, who’s had lots of involvement in Soul Survivor before coming to Canada. Tanis and Kris, help run the youth group with Tom and myself, and together I think we can do a great job in moving the young people on. Having Tanis and Kris means that we can spilt the children into groups and have bible study aimed at their level, then get them to tell the rest of the group what they found out, giving the kids more confidence in speaking in front of their peers. We have three youth events throughout the week:
• CATCH – Christ At The Centre Here-, which is aimed at the young people who really want to seek God and debate in-depth on the topics covered. This is from 5.30pm-7pm on a Wednesday night.
• ENJOY – 7pm – 9.30pm on a Wednesday night. The church is open for young people to come and use the facilities available, for example a band comes to practise (some of the members are in youth group, others are non-Christians), the xbox comes out, and people use the internet, make web pages, play board games and basically do what they want to do. The young people also know that it is a safe environment to bring non-Christian friends.
• OTT – On These Two – is like a ‘normal’ youth group. The young people have time to play basketball across the street, play xbox, eat food and play board games, before we have bible study, worship and prayer. OTT happens on a Friday night between 6.45pm and 9.15pm.
I have had some issues with accommodation, as what Tom had planned fell through for various reasons. So I am staying with Tom and Liz (the youth pastor and his wife), on a sofa bed in Joel’s play room. I love living there as it has help me and tom get to know each other and Tom and Liz are really hospitable. Joel is nearly two, so I have lots of fun playing with him and I made his birthday cake into Bob the Builder. However Liz is heavily pregnant and is due to give birth on Joel’s birthday in late October. Thanks to all those who have been praying about my accommodation, your prayers have been answered! On Tuesday night I found out that I have a place to live for the year, with a couple called Ann and Dennis. I will move in after I have spent nearly a month living downtown with a young woman called Kelsey in a condo. (I go to Kelsey’s on the 15th October)
I have made good friends with Rose, a girl on PAIS but on a different team, and we try and spend some time together socialising during the week, although at the moment we live quite far from each other, so it can be difficult.
The weather here has been amazing, we have only had a little rain, and I’ve managed to get some wonderful, beautiful, awe-inspiring looks at the city and the mountains surrounding, which has helped enlarge the vision God has given me and increase the love for the area in which I live.
I have managed to fit in some sightseeing things such as lynn valley, deep cove, whistler, grouse mountain and gas town. Although I hope to do more of that as I become more settled and when the family comes out to visit in October we hope to go whale watching.
Prayer requests:
• Team finances
• Schools
• Youth group
• Campus Fire www.campusfire.com
God bless
Rosie Honeywell
P.S If you would like to follow my year in Vancouver, with more regular weekly updates and photos please look at: www.jimsrosie.blogspot.com
P.S.S if you would like to receive prayer updates please contact me at: rosiehoneywell@hotmail.com
28th September 2006
Dear Friends.
As you know I am in Vancouver, Canada, working with the PAIS (www.paisproject.com) for a year, while also working with Point Grey Community Church -PGCC- (www.pgcc.org) and their church plant Utown.
As you know I went to Dallas, Texas, for my Pais training, where we trained with the USA teams also. We covered topics such as ministry essentials and kingdom principles. I was truly bless by the family I was staying with and while in Texas, I know God really worked in my life. After two weeks training in Texas the Canadian department flew to Vancouver to do an extra weeks cultural training.
Pais’ aim is ‘missionaries making missionaries’ and to build bridge between the schools and the churches. I am part of a pioneer team to the Westside, which means that we haven’t gone into school yet unlike the other two teams in Vancouver. My team leader Amy and team member Denai, are great to work with and im really excited about what we can offer to schools. At the moment we have had a little trouble getting in contact with the schools, as the people we need to talk to are busy. We managed to get in contact with one school – University hill, however they have no space for us to help them with after-school clubs, but they are interested in the team tutoring the young people.
Pais goes into the schools offering a variety of different resources each school can tap into; assemblies on moral standards, healthy lifestyles, CAPP, and self confidence. We also provide things like sports clubs, workshops, lunch clubs, tutoring, homework classes, mentoring and anything the school would like us to get involved in.
As a pioneer team, we have no resources and no money, so we are relying on donations, if and when they come in. This means we have no office supplies – paper, pens, cardboard, paints, printer -, and basically are in need of money to buy the resources so we can be professional when we go into schools. We would also love regular support, of even small amounts per month, manage our money and be able to be consistent in what we are providing.
If you feel you would like to support what my Pais team and I are doing this year, please contact me and let me know. This can be through finances, or prayer support. If you would like to support the team in prayer, let me know your e-mail address and I can send you prayer requests and updates.
Pais is helping organise a conference called Campus Fire, and it is aimed at equipping high school student to effectively minister to their peers, through leading lunchtime clubs. It’s a great chance to explore different areas that arise when arranging an event, and im also looking forward to being a PA to some guest speaker during the weekend.
At PGCC everyone has been really welcoming and I can’t wait to be part of what God has to do it the church over the year. Im working in Tom Sopwith, the youth pastor, and he’s an amazing British man, who’s had lots of involvement in Soul Survivor before coming to Canada. Tanis and Kris, help run the youth group with Tom and myself, and together I think we can do a great job in moving the young people on. Having Tanis and Kris means that we can spilt the children into groups and have bible study aimed at their level, then get them to tell the rest of the group what they found out, giving the kids more confidence in speaking in front of their peers. We have three youth events throughout the week:
• CATCH – Christ At The Centre Here-, which is aimed at the young people who really want to seek God and debate in-depth on the topics covered. This is from 5.30pm-7pm on a Wednesday night.
• ENJOY – 7pm – 9.30pm on a Wednesday night. The church is open for young people to come and use the facilities available, for example a band comes to practise (some of the members are in youth group, others are non-Christians), the xbox comes out, and people use the internet, make web pages, play board games and basically do what they want to do. The young people also know that it is a safe environment to bring non-Christian friends.
• OTT – On These Two – is like a ‘normal’ youth group. The young people have time to play basketball across the street, play xbox, eat food and play board games, before we have bible study, worship and prayer. OTT happens on a Friday night between 6.45pm and 9.15pm.
I have had some issues with accommodation, as what Tom had planned fell through for various reasons. So I am staying with Tom and Liz (the youth pastor and his wife), on a sofa bed in Joel’s play room. I love living there as it has help me and tom get to know each other and Tom and Liz are really hospitable. Joel is nearly two, so I have lots of fun playing with him and I made his birthday cake into Bob the Builder. However Liz is heavily pregnant and is due to give birth on Joel’s birthday in late October. Thanks to all those who have been praying about my accommodation, your prayers have been answered! On Tuesday night I found out that I have a place to live for the year, with a couple called Ann and Dennis. I will move in after I have spent nearly a month living downtown with a young woman called Kelsey in a condo. (I go to Kelsey’s on the 15th October)
I have made good friends with Rose, a girl on PAIS but on a different team, and we try and spend some time together socialising during the week, although at the moment we live quite far from each other, so it can be difficult.
The weather here has been amazing, we have only had a little rain, and I’ve managed to get some wonderful, beautiful, awe-inspiring looks at the city and the mountains surrounding, which has helped enlarge the vision God has given me and increase the love for the area in which I live.
I have managed to fit in some sightseeing things such as lynn valley, deep cove, whistler, grouse mountain and gas town. Although I hope to do more of that as I become more settled and when the family comes out to visit in October we hope to go whale watching.
Prayer requests:
• Team finances
• Schools
• Youth group
• Campus Fire www.campusfire.com
God bless
Rosie Honeywell
P.S If you would like to follow my year in Vancouver, with more regular weekly updates and photos please look at: www.jimsrosie.blogspot.com
P.S.S if you would like to receive prayer updates please contact me at: rosiehoneywell@hotmail.com
Friday, October 06, 2006
UPDATE!!!
wooo!!
today has been ace! a quick update on the schools front:
* Amy and Jade have a meeting at 1pm on wed 11th oct at Eric Hamber!
* Amy and Tom have a meeting with Lord Byng in 2 weeks!!
How awesome is that!!! :)
today has been ace! a quick update on the schools front:
* Amy and Jade have a meeting at 1pm on wed 11th oct at Eric Hamber!
* Amy and Tom have a meeting with Lord Byng in 2 weeks!!
How awesome is that!!! :)
Good News!!
Good News on the Schools front:
* Eric Hamber High School - would like us to mentor their Christian students, working with YFC - Youth For Christ
* Uhill High School - recieved an information pack, then phoned wanting to know more and will phone hopefully next week to arrnage a meeting.
* Simon Fraser Elementary - recieved a information pack and seemed really exicted, and they think we have a lot to offer them.
* Lord Byng High School - as I am writting this my team leader is on the phone, trying to establish a connection and hopefully arranging to send out a schools pack.
Please countine to pray for increased opportunities to get into schools and provide a service, and finances for the team.
Thank you
God bless
* Eric Hamber High School - would like us to mentor their Christian students, working with YFC - Youth For Christ
* Uhill High School - recieved an information pack, then phoned wanting to know more and will phone hopefully next week to arrnage a meeting.
* Simon Fraser Elementary - recieved a information pack and seemed really exicted, and they think we have a lot to offer them.
* Lord Byng High School - as I am writting this my team leader is on the phone, trying to establish a connection and hopefully arranging to send out a schools pack.
Please countine to pray for increased opportunities to get into schools and provide a service, and finances for the team.
Thank you
God bless
Sunday, September 24, 2006
busy busy
Hi
Last week was very busy, starting on saturday when I decorated Joels birthday cake into a big Bob the Builder! Rose came over and made bricks! and then we made a joint blog. check it out: www.couldtheybecloned.blogspot.com or e-mail us at couldtheybecloned@hotmail.com we would love to hear from you! :)
and then of course sunday was mad, a day without stopping, first off to PGCC so tom can do accounments (and he was meant to pray for two friends who flew to oz today but ger turned up late), then a quick dash using the car across to Utown, where i got introduced to the church. We then stayed for the BBQ and managed to get a lift back to PGCC (Liz and Joel left Utown early for Joels nap), for the newcomers lunch! and then a quick trip home to load the car then back down to PGCC to set up for Joels birthday party! It seemed like the day would never end!
On monday, i cant remember what we did! ohhh yeah. Denai was ill, so Amy and me did devotions and planned devotions, and then we went to Amy's house where I had a menoring session, then it was back to 10th, for some student thing they have, as Rebecca was speaking and we has to man a stand! monday was extremly tiring!
On tuesday, we all planned campusfire at Bethel, I spent the morning typing job descriptions for the volunteers - which i still need to check over! then in the afternoon, because I had been working on the job descriptions and andy the department coordinator for site management works for his church on tues, i got given the task of sorting all the site management stuff out, so i need to sort sercuity out - get walkie-talkies, tee-shirts, rotas inplace and do various others tasks! im sure it will be an awesome learning curve, when i get my head round what im meant to be doing! During the campusfire weekend i will be a PA to up to 3 guest speakers which will be good!
On Wed, Denai and I where alone in the office, so I lead a devotion and then we brainstormed different aspects of mintrsy and what we as a team can offer. We then went to the 10th staff meeting, where we got introduced, it was then time for us to do the work our youth pastors set for us, so i headed back to tom and liz's where tom cooked me, lunch and we planned friday night. we then had CATCH - Christ at the centre here - where the kids started to open up, then ENJOY and the band came to practise and I got to chill out with some kids.
On thurs, I went to a PAOC meeting - pentecostal assemblies of canada - with senior pastors from the churches in the vancouver district. Rose came as well, and as well as having a loverly meal cooked by a chef - wonderful cheesecake - which Rose couldnt eat, we got to meet some amazing people and have some good chats as well as hear David Wells speak.
On friday, Amy tried to get in-touch with the schools and failed! so please pray that next time we try the headteachers/people we need to get in touch with will be avaiable to speak to us! I wrote a workshop on business, and we prayed and listened to a seminar. In Denai's devotion I learnt my divine appointment - message me if you want to know -. we then had OTT and sam help tom lead us in worship! we did about the kingdom of God and had some good discussions, brendon was the focus person and tom managed to get hold of a tee-shirt that had special meaning to him and he had lost which was awesome!
I had a few pictures/visions for vancouver this week but i will share them in another post!
Also today during the service this morning I felt God increase my vision and reveal to me part of the biggert picture! its scray stuff and when i have refined in more i will post!
Last week was very busy, starting on saturday when I decorated Joels birthday cake into a big Bob the Builder! Rose came over and made bricks! and then we made a joint blog. check it out: www.couldtheybecloned.blogspot.com or e-mail us at couldtheybecloned@hotmail.com we would love to hear from you! :)
and then of course sunday was mad, a day without stopping, first off to PGCC so tom can do accounments (and he was meant to pray for two friends who flew to oz today but ger turned up late), then a quick dash using the car across to Utown, where i got introduced to the church. We then stayed for the BBQ and managed to get a lift back to PGCC (Liz and Joel left Utown early for Joels nap), for the newcomers lunch! and then a quick trip home to load the car then back down to PGCC to set up for Joels birthday party! It seemed like the day would never end!
On monday, i cant remember what we did! ohhh yeah. Denai was ill, so Amy and me did devotions and planned devotions, and then we went to Amy's house where I had a menoring session, then it was back to 10th, for some student thing they have, as Rebecca was speaking and we has to man a stand! monday was extremly tiring!
On tuesday, we all planned campusfire at Bethel, I spent the morning typing job descriptions for the volunteers - which i still need to check over! then in the afternoon, because I had been working on the job descriptions and andy the department coordinator for site management works for his church on tues, i got given the task of sorting all the site management stuff out, so i need to sort sercuity out - get walkie-talkies, tee-shirts, rotas inplace and do various others tasks! im sure it will be an awesome learning curve, when i get my head round what im meant to be doing! During the campusfire weekend i will be a PA to up to 3 guest speakers which will be good!
On Wed, Denai and I where alone in the office, so I lead a devotion and then we brainstormed different aspects of mintrsy and what we as a team can offer. We then went to the 10th staff meeting, where we got introduced, it was then time for us to do the work our youth pastors set for us, so i headed back to tom and liz's where tom cooked me, lunch and we planned friday night. we then had CATCH - Christ at the centre here - where the kids started to open up, then ENJOY and the band came to practise and I got to chill out with some kids.
On thurs, I went to a PAOC meeting - pentecostal assemblies of canada - with senior pastors from the churches in the vancouver district. Rose came as well, and as well as having a loverly meal cooked by a chef - wonderful cheesecake - which Rose couldnt eat, we got to meet some amazing people and have some good chats as well as hear David Wells speak.
On friday, Amy tried to get in-touch with the schools and failed! so please pray that next time we try the headteachers/people we need to get in touch with will be avaiable to speak to us! I wrote a workshop on business, and we prayed and listened to a seminar. In Denai's devotion I learnt my divine appointment - message me if you want to know -. we then had OTT and sam help tom lead us in worship! we did about the kingdom of God and had some good discussions, brendon was the focus person and tom managed to get hold of a tee-shirt that had special meaning to him and he had lost which was awesome!
I had a few pictures/visions for vancouver this week but i will share them in another post!
Also today during the service this morning I felt God increase my vision and reveal to me part of the biggert picture! its scray stuff and when i have refined in more i will post!
Grouse Mountain
Today, I went to church in the morning, and then dad picked me up and we drove to grouse mountain, which overlooks vancouver city.
We then got a cable car to the top, where we saw bears and stunning views. It was very warm, and i felt sorry for the people taking party in the grouse mountain grind, a race up the mountain!
My dad left in the afternoon so since then ive been chilling out and shopping for Liz - who is illergic to wasp stings and managed to get stung on her stomach when she is pregant, however she has reall reaction which is amazing,
I then went to the sunday evening worship service and meet some new loverly people! tee-hee they are stuck with me!
Whistler
Oh thursday my dad came to visit, bring english chocolate with him! wooo
So on Saturday we drove up to Whistler, it was a beautiful drive passed some snow-topped (just) mountains, and with some loverly views, beautiful lakes and waterfalls.
But first off all dad picked me up at 8am and we went back to his bed and breakfast for an amazing breakest; cranberry and chocolate muffins, thai black sticky rice with peaches, spianch something i cant spell with walnut bread!! very yummy.
On Saturday night we went to the seasons bistro in queen elizabeth park to have dinner with Rose. The food was brilliant, and we had a few good laughs! Me and Rose shared a delicous starter of tomato's, mozarella and balsmic vinger, i then a steak (most expesnive thing on menu go me) and the we all shared a beautiful cheesecake! I think i will get dad to take me back next time hes in town... i need to dine in style once in a while!
Saturday, September 16, 2006
Team
Hey
Pais goes into the schools offering a varity of different resources each school can tap into; assemblies on moral standards, healthly lifestyles, CAPP, and self confidence. We also provide things like psorts clubs, workshops, lunch clubs, tutoring, homework classes, mentoring and anything the school would like us to get involved in.
As a pioneer team, we have no resources and no money, so we are relying on donations, if and when they come in. This means we have no office supplies, and bascially are in need of money to buy the resources so we can be professional when we go into schools (which Amy will hopefully phone on monday).
If you feel you would like to support what I and my Pais team are doing this year, please contact me and let me know. This can be through finances, or prayer support. If you would like to support the team in prayer, let mw know your e-mail address and i can send you prayer requests and updates.
Thanks
God bless
Rosie <><
www.paisproject.com
Pais goes into the schools offering a varity of different resources each school can tap into; assemblies on moral standards, healthly lifestyles, CAPP, and self confidence. We also provide things like psorts clubs, workshops, lunch clubs, tutoring, homework classes, mentoring and anything the school would like us to get involved in.
As a pioneer team, we have no resources and no money, so we are relying on donations, if and when they come in. This means we have no office supplies, and bascially are in need of money to buy the resources so we can be professional when we go into schools (which Amy will hopefully phone on monday).
If you feel you would like to support what I and my Pais team are doing this year, please contact me and let me know. This can be through finances, or prayer support. If you would like to support the team in prayer, let mw know your e-mail address and i can send you prayer requests and updates.
Thanks
God bless
Rosie <><
www.paisproject.com
Saturday, September 09, 2006
Vision
Well, I have had a busy week - although it started with a bank holiday which was cool.
Vision Week
On tuesday we spent the day dicussing our own visions for the year and future, listen to an awesome seminar and then went to sit in a park to give each other our testimonies which was awesome.
Wednesday, i managed to get a lie in as we went to a prayer lunch, where pastors across Vancouver gathered to pray for the city, which was great! Then Amy, Denai and I went scavenger hunting - we manged to get a free manicure, $50 off subway, 2 x vintage 1930's suitcases, a crib, a fake blackberry and 3 fake mobile phones which is awesome as we can use them through out the year, we also got promise of some goods from a travel shops and possibly some manquins.
Thurs, I led a devotion in the importance of prayer, we then did a prayer walk, and ended up in a park on swings. then we brainstormed vision andf what we wanted to see in the school, churches and own lives.
Friday, Denai led a devotion in a Harvest, we made some cards - all artsy crafty which isnt my style, we then had lunch with Jade (Denai's Youth Pastor), then brainstormed promotion, listened to another seminar, then prayed and went for coffee.
Friday night, we had youth group which was cool. but before that could happen Joel got stung by a wasp - bless his little cotton socks. It was good to meet the youth, and it was more of a social event.
Today i got up to listen to the Saints at 6am (we lost), but i couldnt hear the second half, so i went back to bed, and when i got up, Tom has made pancakes for me which was awesome. I then went to Metro town, the 2nd largest mall in canada, with Rose, Denai and Rebekka, and brought some awesome straightners. I planned Joel's birthday cake - and hopefully it will work out, as loads of people will be there.
Tomorrow, Tom will introduce me to the church and next week to Utown, which is cool.
God bless x
Sunday, September 03, 2006
hey
Hey
Well I arrived in Vancouver, Canada, just under a week ago, and im loving it!
Ive been to Lynn Valley, Deep Cove, Spanish Banks, Stanley park and downtown to areas such as Gas Town, and driven through - in a limo- China town and various places. On my first night in Vancouver the Pais:Canada crew met up for a social and we had a limo take us around vancouver for an hour which was cool!
Im really excited to be here and cant wait to see what God's brought me here to do in reality with the youth at Point Grey Community Church (PGCC) and Utown (the church plant) and in the schools! I know im going to grow and be stretched tons, but yet have such a time of influence in these kids lives.
Pais:Canada Westside, is made up of the lovely Amy Hicks (team leader), wonderful Denai Barker and myself. Other names you might hear mentioned in the next 10 months are:
North Shore: Andrew Poxon, Mel Easton and Jenna
Vancouver: Ali, Rose and Rebekka (not sure on that spelling)
along with Rebecca Bailey the Canadian director, Paul Gibbs, founder of Pais, Ben Woodman pais chaplain guy, Lawerance Senior pastor of PGCC and yeah people lol!
Here are some photos of the lovely Pais:Canada crew, Tom (the youth pastor at PGCC), Liz, his wife and Joel their son and of course some sights!
God Bless
Rosie & Jim
p.s hopefully this will be updated regularly so you guys can keep updated on my year if you would like and see whats going on! if not sorry im just too busy!
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