Something I don't think I could hate more; leaving. All the 'Lasts' and the "Goodbyes'. Leaving somewhere, people who you have lived life with for any extended period of time. Its the that time of year again, the time of year I dreaded in Canada, has come about in Thailand all too quickly.
Last is so final: in the end; finally; in conclusion.
So we had our last ministry on Thursday, our last week in the office, our last trip to such a such beach or restaurant, and our last weekend all together in Thailand.
This week will fly past, we have Foundational Leadership Training, wednesday - friday. On Saturday we graduate this Pais year. And then the goodbyes start. Joel, Linda and Imko fly on Sunday. Nic, Sarah, Louise and Josh on Tuesday, Sam on Wednesday. Saying goodbye to the people I have lived and worked with 24/7 will be hard, but easier then saying goodbye to the kids, who it will be hard to keep in contact with.
Getting over this hurdle is the thing forefront in my mind right now, but I am looking forward to the new adventure in Rotherham. Maybe not the culture shock!
It not all bad, last week Linda, Sam and I went to Krabi. It was awesome. I ate crocodile and chilled on the most stunning beach ever. On Friday we went to see the Morgans, and stayed in a traditional Thai house, after going honey hunting through the forest - unfortunately the tigers live on the other side of the island so I didn't see any. But we got to squeeze the fresh wild honey into a bottle. Its awesome from the mango flower, its dark and tastes a bit like molasses.
anyway, a random blog post for a random time in my life...
Monday, June 29, 2009
Monday, June 01, 2009
Drama, Drama, Drama
When writing the weekly report for last week, the one word I used to sum it up was Ouch, but now I'm thinking Drama would have been a better word!
It all started on the 22nd of May. We where doing fruit games at Sussex House, and after various messy games, such as apple bobbing, banana tossing and squeezing orange juice, we played fruit bowls. Anyway lets just say that I managed to slip on the wet floor, and bang my head.. fair does, what does it really matter. Actually, a little bit, after a few minutes the headaches started, yay for headaches. Hey, I lived with headaches for a long time last year. Any the drama in this story concerns other people, as they wanted me to go to doctors, which I flatly refused due to my experience in Canada, take pain relief and rest - I paid like $100 for this privilege - not again! So far I have managed to stop them forcing me to the doctors, but please pray that the headache will go away, it is mainly subtle but can get painful at times.
The last week was full of Drama, Drama prep and 4 hours of Drama lessons at Tessa Bann, where we interacted with 140+ kids! Sweet! We are doing a 5 week drama course, using the story Daniel in the lions den. Lets say it is very fun to act, between 2 of you! So far we have introduced the story and the idea of voice projection Over the next 3 weeks we will look at Emotions, Body Language and Stage Positions, the final week, will see each group - 6 to a class- perform in front of their class mates. At the end of every session we have Question a Pais Worker, please be praying that we will get questions about why we are here, about the story and why Daniel was praying, and just opportunities to share our faith. This might be the students only opportunity in their lives to hear about God.
I changed my days off, so I could spend Friday and Saturday with Laura, before doing a stupidly early airport drop on Sunday morning, at least now I can laugh that she is in freezing England. Im terribly jealous of the amount of Thailand she has seen after just 2 months, I've been here 10! Linda and I have just booked a weekend off - we are allowed 3, and its my first this year oohhps -, and we are going to go to Krabi, Im also counting my pennies to see if I have enough money to go to Chiang Mai at the end of the year.
On Friday Laura and I, went on an ATV tour in Pang Na. It was sweet, there was just 4 of us on the tour, Laura and I and an Australian couple who are honeymooning here. We had fun, and got extremely muddy, especially and the couple from OZ and I got stuck. It was sweet! Friday date we went to all you can eat Japanese. Saturday morning we planned to get up early and go to the Royal Yacht Club for breakfast, but we had eaten too much at Oishi. We made our way to Nai Harn, where we both neglected to but sun cream on our faces - yay for looking like beetroot! We then went for a Thai Massage then headed to the Night Market where we sampled lots of yummy food.
Re-cap on Prayer Points:
1. That my headache will go away
2. For oppertunties to stem out of the Q+A at Tessa Baan.
3. For support for next year. Im still looking for 10 people to sponsor me £10 a month. If you are interested and would like to know more please contact me
4. Passion for England, where I will be serving next. I still haven't made a decision, but I need a love for the kids I will be seeing next year, even though I don't know them yet.
It all started on the 22nd of May. We where doing fruit games at Sussex House, and after various messy games, such as apple bobbing, banana tossing and squeezing orange juice, we played fruit bowls. Anyway lets just say that I managed to slip on the wet floor, and bang my head.. fair does, what does it really matter. Actually, a little bit, after a few minutes the headaches started, yay for headaches. Hey, I lived with headaches for a long time last year. Any the drama in this story concerns other people, as they wanted me to go to doctors, which I flatly refused due to my experience in Canada, take pain relief and rest - I paid like $100 for this privilege - not again! So far I have managed to stop them forcing me to the doctors, but please pray that the headache will go away, it is mainly subtle but can get painful at times.
The last week was full of Drama, Drama prep and 4 hours of Drama lessons at Tessa Bann, where we interacted with 140+ kids! Sweet! We are doing a 5 week drama course, using the story Daniel in the lions den. Lets say it is very fun to act, between 2 of you! So far we have introduced the story and the idea of voice projection Over the next 3 weeks we will look at Emotions, Body Language and Stage Positions, the final week, will see each group - 6 to a class- perform in front of their class mates. At the end of every session we have Question a Pais Worker, please be praying that we will get questions about why we are here, about the story and why Daniel was praying, and just opportunities to share our faith. This might be the students only opportunity in their lives to hear about God.
I changed my days off, so I could spend Friday and Saturday with Laura, before doing a stupidly early airport drop on Sunday morning, at least now I can laugh that she is in freezing England. Im terribly jealous of the amount of Thailand she has seen after just 2 months, I've been here 10! Linda and I have just booked a weekend off - we are allowed 3, and its my first this year oohhps -, and we are going to go to Krabi, Im also counting my pennies to see if I have enough money to go to Chiang Mai at the end of the year.
On Friday Laura and I, went on an ATV tour in Pang Na. It was sweet, there was just 4 of us on the tour, Laura and I and an Australian couple who are honeymooning here. We had fun, and got extremely muddy, especially and the couple from OZ and I got stuck. It was sweet! Friday date we went to all you can eat Japanese. Saturday morning we planned to get up early and go to the Royal Yacht Club for breakfast, but we had eaten too much at Oishi. We made our way to Nai Harn, where we both neglected to but sun cream on our faces - yay for looking like beetroot! We then went for a Thai Massage then headed to the Night Market where we sampled lots of yummy food.
Re-cap on Prayer Points:
1. That my headache will go away
2. For oppertunties to stem out of the Q+A at Tessa Baan.
3. For support for next year. Im still looking for 10 people to sponsor me £10 a month. If you are interested and would like to know more please contact me
4. Passion for England, where I will be serving next. I still haven't made a decision, but I need a love for the kids I will be seeing next year, even though I don't know them yet.
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Sawdee Ka!
Sawdee Ka!
I just wanted to inform you about something really cool that happened this week.
Last week I asked a teacher at Tessa Bann if we could go in one lunch a week to hang out with the kids. Yesterday we went for the first time, not knowing what to expect or if any kids would interact with us.
Josh, Joel and Imko started kicking a ball around on the football pitch, and slowly the kids joined in, until there was about 33 playing football! While us girles, started skipping and playing hopscoth which got Sai, L, Fern and Rung interested. We then proceed to draw on the playground with chalk which drew a bigger crowd, as people realized we where friendly. In total we interacted with roughly 75 kids! Awesome or what.
Yesterday night, Sam, Linda and I braved an oil massage; it was awesome. I am so getting into the spa thing, especially as it is so cheap. I will miss the spa dearly when I return to the western world. Life will not be the same.
As well as all the cool things happening at schools - we had a student come to Yes - a cell kind of thing the church puts on for young people, for the first time last week, and 2 students who did Blueprint at the University have come to a few events now. How amazing is God?
I am being blessed at the moment, by the opportunity to house sit for a Canadian family in the church - oh yeah!. What a blessing, internet, hot showers, air con and duvets in the bedroom, and a vast selection on dvds to watch. Let's not forget the washing machine and just somewhere that is home to someone, a real house, somewhere to go at the end of the work day. Yay for being able to drive in Thailand!
Canadian blessing all the way, as over the past 2 weeks the church has had a team visiting form Glad Tidings in Victoria. It has been really good to be able to chat to young people who are a similar age - and the fact they are from Canada means they had something going for them too! They had a dentist with the team who went around pulling out teeth, and last Friday I got to pick Dave, Andy and Sarah up from the Burmese school where they had been pulling teeth. well Josh and I thought we where doing them a favour, but we ended up getting taken out to Sizzlers - a steak house, with all you can eat salad and pasta bar, so I got to spend a few hours getting to know them better before ferrying them about some more. Free toothpaste and toothbrushes too, all very helpful. However when we asked Dave questions we where informed that a lot of stuff we thought we knew about cleaning our teeth we didn't, we also got to watch a very interesting flossing demo. I must say seeing some little boy's teeth being pulled out was not a highlight of last friday, as he choked twice on he blood as the tooth was difficult to get out.
This was supposed to be a short, sweet, snappy update but turned into rather along one. Hopefully my May newsletter will hold some interesting stories and events.
Please don't forget to check out: rap4jesus.ra.funpic.de/BBB.doc
and support us on our adventure to helping Zaw and the wider Burmese community!
Thanks for all your support and prayers
Rosie
I just wanted to inform you about something really cool that happened this week.
Last week I asked a teacher at Tessa Bann if we could go in one lunch a week to hang out with the kids. Yesterday we went for the first time, not knowing what to expect or if any kids would interact with us.
Josh, Joel and Imko started kicking a ball around on the football pitch, and slowly the kids joined in, until there was about 33 playing football! While us girles, started skipping and playing hopscoth which got Sai, L, Fern and Rung interested. We then proceed to draw on the playground with chalk which drew a bigger crowd, as people realized we where friendly. In total we interacted with roughly 75 kids! Awesome or what.
Yesterday night, Sam, Linda and I braved an oil massage; it was awesome. I am so getting into the spa thing, especially as it is so cheap. I will miss the spa dearly when I return to the western world. Life will not be the same.
As well as all the cool things happening at schools - we had a student come to Yes - a cell kind of thing the church puts on for young people, for the first time last week, and 2 students who did Blueprint at the University have come to a few events now. How amazing is God?
I am being blessed at the moment, by the opportunity to house sit for a Canadian family in the church - oh yeah!. What a blessing, internet, hot showers, air con and duvets in the bedroom, and a vast selection on dvds to watch. Let's not forget the washing machine and just somewhere that is home to someone, a real house, somewhere to go at the end of the work day. Yay for being able to drive in Thailand!
Canadian blessing all the way, as over the past 2 weeks the church has had a team visiting form Glad Tidings in Victoria. It has been really good to be able to chat to young people who are a similar age - and the fact they are from Canada means they had something going for them too! They had a dentist with the team who went around pulling out teeth, and last Friday I got to pick Dave, Andy and Sarah up from the Burmese school where they had been pulling teeth. well Josh and I thought we where doing them a favour, but we ended up getting taken out to Sizzlers - a steak house, with all you can eat salad and pasta bar, so I got to spend a few hours getting to know them better before ferrying them about some more. Free toothpaste and toothbrushes too, all very helpful. However when we asked Dave questions we where informed that a lot of stuff we thought we knew about cleaning our teeth we didn't, we also got to watch a very interesting flossing demo. I must say seeing some little boy's teeth being pulled out was not a highlight of last friday, as he choked twice on he blood as the tooth was difficult to get out.
This was supposed to be a short, sweet, snappy update but turned into rather along one. Hopefully my May newsletter will hold some interesting stories and events.
Please don't forget to check out: rap4jesus.ra.funpic.de/BBB.doc
and support us on our adventure to helping Zaw and the wider Burmese community!
Thanks for all your support and prayers
Rosie
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
newsletter!
Please take the time to read my latest newsletter, check out the pictures of the kids too!
Hello!
Hello!
I am sorry for the lack of blog updates this year, time flies by, and access to the internet is limited. Better luck next year!
It is now official, I am moving back to England - I am not sure where I will be yet. This posses a lot of challenges, which I would really appreciate your prayer for. I will be living in a country that is supposed to 'Home', yet I haven't lived there for 3 years. It will a interesting to learn all about English Culture again after being away.
Lots has been happening and lots is going to happen in the next 9 weeks. I only have 7 weeks left on Pais Asia. Eek Scary.
The Thai schools have started back this week, so I will be speaking to teachers shortly about what we can do in the short space of time we have left.
As most of you will now be aware Pais Thailand are raising money for the church's Burmese Pastor and also to send a brick machine to Burma, by all running different distances. Please put this link -rap4jesus.ra.funpic.de/BBB.doc
into your address bar and download the profile to find out more about this.
I am having a few days off at the end of the month - well shifting them, so I can spend some time with Laura before she flies back to England. Im looking forward to the relaxation! woop.
Hopefully next week, Sam, Linda and I are going to brave an oil massage.
Please read my latest newsletter, Im sorry its late!
Thanks for everything.
I am sorry for the lack of blog updates this year, time flies by, and access to the internet is limited. Better luck next year!
It is now official, I am moving back to England - I am not sure where I will be yet. This posses a lot of challenges, which I would really appreciate your prayer for. I will be living in a country that is supposed to 'Home', yet I haven't lived there for 3 years. It will a interesting to learn all about English Culture again after being away.
Lots has been happening and lots is going to happen in the next 9 weeks. I only have 7 weeks left on Pais Asia. Eek Scary.
The Thai schools have started back this week, so I will be speaking to teachers shortly about what we can do in the short space of time we have left.
As most of you will now be aware Pais Thailand are raising money for the church's Burmese Pastor and also to send a brick machine to Burma, by all running different distances. Please put this link -rap4jesus.ra.funpic.de/BBB.doc
into your address bar and download the profile to find out more about this.
I am having a few days off at the end of the month - well shifting them, so I can spend some time with Laura before she flies back to England. Im looking forward to the relaxation! woop.
Hopefully next week, Sam, Linda and I are going to brave an oil massage.
Please read my latest newsletter, Im sorry its late!
Thanks for everything.
Saturday, March 07, 2009
March news!
Hi
We are in the middle of planning another camping trip - for next weekend! Things have come together very fast, but it will be good to spend time with the kids from sussex house and the guys before they leave.
It's a week of finals; final team week - so everyday is a countdown, but it is also the countdown to something fresh new and exciting!
Last week Sam and I started Mentoring and Training students at the British International School, to prepare them to help some of the Burmese in a camp next to their school. This went well and we are looking to partner with the more with some initiatives that we as Pais are doing. Hopefully we will be able to do some extra training and pass on skills, that help them to in turn train next years years 12s! truly missionaries making missionaries!!
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Holiday
Hi,
So I am in the middle of a weeks holiday, which has so far been awesome, full of beaches and food - the best way to go I think. I even went to the cheap book store and stocked up on book which makes me happy. Other then going to what is becoming the pais beach - Nai Harn -, and eating at all our fave places, we also went to Phi Phi island for 2 days. We went snorkelling and stayed in a cool resort. Phi Phi was amazing and stunningly beautiful, we created some awesome memories there.
Pais has been going well, we have been without Nic and Sarah, and Laurie went away to youth camp for a week, so things where pretty quiet but we still manged to get lots packed in, including a sunrise, and some time at friendship beach. The schools have been on holiday so we have being doing lots of prep, which should make life easier, we also wrote some workshops for BIS and will be doing them over the next two weeks.
For all you canadians, I celebrated thanksgiving with ice cream and chocolate cake, watching the holiday, because no one out here would celebrate with me. most disappointed.
Lauries parents brought me marmite, which has made me happy, and as everyone else in the apparment hates it, i can leave it whereever i like.. which at the moment as we have a broken fridge is random places. We failed to defrost the fridge properly apparetnly and it broke..ohps.
I do have a newsletter prepared but its on my mac, and i havent had a chance to send it, sorry.
Lots of Love Rosie
So I am in the middle of a weeks holiday, which has so far been awesome, full of beaches and food - the best way to go I think. I even went to the cheap book store and stocked up on book which makes me happy. Other then going to what is becoming the pais beach - Nai Harn -, and eating at all our fave places, we also went to Phi Phi island for 2 days. We went snorkelling and stayed in a cool resort. Phi Phi was amazing and stunningly beautiful, we created some awesome memories there.
Pais has been going well, we have been without Nic and Sarah, and Laurie went away to youth camp for a week, so things where pretty quiet but we still manged to get lots packed in, including a sunrise, and some time at friendship beach. The schools have been on holiday so we have being doing lots of prep, which should make life easier, we also wrote some workshops for BIS and will be doing them over the next two weeks.
For all you canadians, I celebrated thanksgiving with ice cream and chocolate cake, watching the holiday, because no one out here would celebrate with me. most disappointed.
Lauries parents brought me marmite, which has made me happy, and as everyone else in the apparment hates it, i can leave it whereever i like.. which at the moment as we have a broken fridge is random places. We failed to defrost the fridge properly apparetnly and it broke..ohps.
I do have a newsletter prepared but its on my mac, and i havent had a chance to send it, sorry.
Lots of Love Rosie
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Hi from Thailand!!
Well my first post from Thailand. And my what an adventure it has been so far!
I flew on the 21st August landing in Phuket early on the 22nd after flying on the Airbus! Hours after landing I was standing in Tescos! Stocking up on esstentials, and after that we watched a movie at Sussex house - the childrens home.
Since that first day I have packed so much in, work and socially. Its been busy but good!
A list of amazing things::
# I have been to Friendship Beach twice. (a resturant that does english food and pool)
# Nai Ham (?) Beach twice - awesome waves!
# Watched Joel kill a rat with a broom
# Night market
# Beach with Kids from Sussex House
# Phuket Stunt show
# Koren BBQ
# Natural Resturant
# Swevsons Icecream
# Royal Phuket Citys half price cake
# Kata Beach with my team
# 365 thai speaking students in a week - english, drama and footbal lessons
# Played Beach Volley Ball
and lots of other things!
After 2 weeks of Pais Foundational training we had vision week and painted Sussex House, we got stuck in to Pais. And straight into the schools which is amazing for a pioneering team!
We have started from stratch, with no equipment or money to buy resources for the schools we work in. The bulk of our ministry is in poor thai schools who have little resources themsleves. We dont even have enough money to cover petrol for the year, without the petrol we cant go into the schools! SO we are looking for people to support us in this. If you feel you may wish please let me know.
Getting to the Internet is hard, but I will try and keep you all posted as much as possible. I do have a cell phone and an address if you wish to contact me in this way please let me know and i will get my details to you!
I flew on the 21st August landing in Phuket early on the 22nd after flying on the Airbus! Hours after landing I was standing in Tescos! Stocking up on esstentials, and after that we watched a movie at Sussex house - the childrens home.
Since that first day I have packed so much in, work and socially. Its been busy but good!
A list of amazing things::
# I have been to Friendship Beach twice. (a resturant that does english food and pool)
# Nai Ham (?) Beach twice - awesome waves!
# Watched Joel kill a rat with a broom
# Night market
# Beach with Kids from Sussex House
# Phuket Stunt show
# Koren BBQ
# Natural Resturant
# Swevsons Icecream
# Royal Phuket Citys half price cake
# Kata Beach with my team
# 365 thai speaking students in a week - english, drama and footbal lessons
# Played Beach Volley Ball
and lots of other things!
After 2 weeks of Pais Foundational training we had vision week and painted Sussex House, we got stuck in to Pais. And straight into the schools which is amazing for a pioneering team!
We have started from stratch, with no equipment or money to buy resources for the schools we work in. The bulk of our ministry is in poor thai schools who have little resources themsleves. We dont even have enough money to cover petrol for the year, without the petrol we cant go into the schools! SO we are looking for people to support us in this. If you feel you may wish please let me know.
Getting to the Internet is hard, but I will try and keep you all posted as much as possible. I do have a cell phone and an address if you wish to contact me in this way please let me know and i will get my details to you!
Friday, August 01, 2008
Bumprints In The Sand
Someone read this out at FC::
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord," What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat.
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."
"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."
"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up.
And there I dropped you on your butt."
"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."
A friend sent that to me and this message with it:
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When we must rise and take a stand,
Or leave our butt prints in the sand.
One night I had a wondrous dream,
One set of footprints there was seen,
The footprints of my precious Lord,
But mine were not along the shore.
But then some stranger prints appeared,
And I asked the Lord," What have we here?"
Those prints are large and round and neat.
"But Lord, they are too big for feet."
"My child," He said in somber tones,
"For miles I carried you alone.
I challenged you to walk in faith,
But you refused and made me wait."
"You disobeyed, you would not grow,
The walk of faith, you would not know,
So I got tired, I got fed up.
And there I dropped you on your butt."
"Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When one must rise and take a stand,
Or leave their butt prints in the sand."
A friend sent that to me and this message with it:
Because in life, there comes a time,
When one must fight, and one must climb,
When we must rise and take a stand,
Or leave our butt prints in the sand.
Friday, June 20, 2008
goodbye
so after a long week and lots of goodbyes and even some tears, i am sitting in YVR looking at the mountains my heart breaking wishing i didnt have to leave.
im sure when i get into the swing of thailand, i will be able to cope, but right now it feels like my world is falling apart.
vancouver has been my home for the last 2 years, i have poured everything i possess into this place, and i feel a huge tug at my heart. i cant believe its over, i think im still in denial.
im determined to be back no matter what the cost even if its for a holiday, so if you want to bring rosie back to vancouver and you want to buy my flight let me know :p
huge thanks to everyone who has been there these past two years, and everyone who has had me stay in their home.
im sure when i get into the swing of thailand, i will be able to cope, but right now it feels like my world is falling apart.
vancouver has been my home for the last 2 years, i have poured everything i possess into this place, and i feel a huge tug at my heart. i cant believe its over, i think im still in denial.
im determined to be back no matter what the cost even if its for a holiday, so if you want to bring rosie back to vancouver and you want to buy my flight let me know :p
huge thanks to everyone who has been there these past two years, and everyone who has had me stay in their home.
Thursday, May 29, 2008
mystery..
the other day someone said to me that im a mystery to them, this got me thinking.
mystery
• noun (pl. mysteries) 1 something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. 2 secrecy or obscurity.
oxford english dictionary
life is one huge mystery full of little mysteries that we some how solve. its like a puzzle, that we have to fit together piece by piece with out having the box to look at or blindfolded.
in a way being a mystery to someone is kind of cool, but on the other hand, i don't think God wants us to be mysteries to people. he doesn't want us to have secrets, to not be able to understand each other. God wants true community, authentic relationships, he wants us to journey with people, to share life.
of course to certain people you are always going to be a mystery, one that never get solved, for plenty of reasons. but when someone who knows you, whose job it is to probe further, to walk with you and your a mystery to them, maybe we need to take a step back and start looking at ourselves. asking questions like why? what is the reason why i am hiding? the true reason, not the one i am using to shield myself, not the safe answer.
mystery
• noun (pl. mysteries) 1 something that is difficult or impossible to understand or explain. 2 secrecy or obscurity.
oxford english dictionary
life is one huge mystery full of little mysteries that we some how solve. its like a puzzle, that we have to fit together piece by piece with out having the box to look at or blindfolded.
in a way being a mystery to someone is kind of cool, but on the other hand, i don't think God wants us to be mysteries to people. he doesn't want us to have secrets, to not be able to understand each other. God wants true community, authentic relationships, he wants us to journey with people, to share life.
of course to certain people you are always going to be a mystery, one that never get solved, for plenty of reasons. but when someone who knows you, whose job it is to probe further, to walk with you and your a mystery to them, maybe we need to take a step back and start looking at ourselves. asking questions like why? what is the reason why i am hiding? the true reason, not the one i am using to shield myself, not the safe answer.
Saturday, May 24, 2008
heartbeat
If you know me well, you will know that I was brought up going to the Isle of Harris every May for 2 weeks. The last time I went was when I was 16, I remember this time well, because God kept me firmly planted on the ground, through a time, in which I was unstable. The last couple of times I went to Harris, I felt this longing build up inside of me for the people on the islands, mainly the youth, and I felt that my parents had faithfully brought me to Harris pretty much year in year out for a reason; so a love of this place would build inside of me, to prepare me for the future.
I have know for a while that some how some day I will end up serving the people of Harris. Although now I know the time is not right, God is putting my heart in tune with his for these people more then ever, my heart breaking for them. Right now hes expanding my heart for all of those in the islands and highlands. How hard it is, to have your heart break for a place and have to wait, its taking everything within me to not go to scotland and start some how to bring this picture into life, yet it wouldn't me in God's timing, so I must learn to give it to him, again and again, and listen to him, to tell me when the time is right.
My family are there right now on holiday as usual, and its killing me!
As my heartbeat for scotland intensifies, the countdown clock to me leaving vancouver is ticking away a little too fast for my liking. 27 days left in this beautiful city, 27 days with the youth, 27 days with the friends i have made and 20 days with anne and dennis eekk. today is another beautiful day, with the city basking in sunshine, snow still on the tops of the mountains.
Things are starting to wrap up here, schools are finishing, we are planing leadership training and graduation. Its a weird feeling to be wrapping up my life in a city where I have pour out my heart and soul. I have so much to do, so many places to see 'one' last time. I will have to visit for holidays! I dont seem to have enough time, life is fast space, and tires me out quickly, recently my headaches have been intense and I have been feeling sick - and actually been sick! However I do have a week here after graduation, which thankfully gives me some time.
One thing I have ticked off my list is cycling around stanley park; Last week the team had a social day and we decided to hire bikes and go around the sea wall. I am so glad I did it, it was great to cycle through the park and feel like you where know where near the city, yet really you are 5 minutes from the core.
Last week we took the youth camping to History Maker. It was a stunning weekend with the temperatures hitting 32c. This was way better then last year when it rained the whole time. We managed to find a nice pool by the river, it was freezing so we tested ourselves to see who could put there feet in the longest. We have a number of cool stories; snakes, hands - simi and jordan :P, kris getting stitches. Admittedly I don't remember much about the weekend, as most of the time I spent there I felt sick so sat outside. Mike P and derlirous where excellent though! If you are ever camping in BC find Anthony and Del. and get them to come with you! We woke up o breakfasts of ham, bacon, cinnamon and apple pancakes, chocolate and banana pancakes, watermelon, melon, yogurt, tim hortons coffee, doughnuts (not all on the same day thankfully!!).
I have tons coming up in the next 3 weeks; prayer meetings, two conferences, goodbyes and all the pais stuff - which is a lot!
Right now I could really do with prayer as I wrap up the year and say goodbye.
Rosie
I have know for a while that some how some day I will end up serving the people of Harris. Although now I know the time is not right, God is putting my heart in tune with his for these people more then ever, my heart breaking for them. Right now hes expanding my heart for all of those in the islands and highlands. How hard it is, to have your heart break for a place and have to wait, its taking everything within me to not go to scotland and start some how to bring this picture into life, yet it wouldn't me in God's timing, so I must learn to give it to him, again and again, and listen to him, to tell me when the time is right.
My family are there right now on holiday as usual, and its killing me!
As my heartbeat for scotland intensifies, the countdown clock to me leaving vancouver is ticking away a little too fast for my liking. 27 days left in this beautiful city, 27 days with the youth, 27 days with the friends i have made and 20 days with anne and dennis eekk. today is another beautiful day, with the city basking in sunshine, snow still on the tops of the mountains.
Things are starting to wrap up here, schools are finishing, we are planing leadership training and graduation. Its a weird feeling to be wrapping up my life in a city where I have pour out my heart and soul. I have so much to do, so many places to see 'one' last time. I will have to visit for holidays! I dont seem to have enough time, life is fast space, and tires me out quickly, recently my headaches have been intense and I have been feeling sick - and actually been sick! However I do have a week here after graduation, which thankfully gives me some time.
One thing I have ticked off my list is cycling around stanley park; Last week the team had a social day and we decided to hire bikes and go around the sea wall. I am so glad I did it, it was great to cycle through the park and feel like you where know where near the city, yet really you are 5 minutes from the core.
Last week we took the youth camping to History Maker. It was a stunning weekend with the temperatures hitting 32c. This was way better then last year when it rained the whole time. We managed to find a nice pool by the river, it was freezing so we tested ourselves to see who could put there feet in the longest. We have a number of cool stories; snakes, hands - simi and jordan :P, kris getting stitches. Admittedly I don't remember much about the weekend, as most of the time I spent there I felt sick so sat outside. Mike P and derlirous where excellent though! If you are ever camping in BC find Anthony and Del. and get them to come with you! We woke up o breakfasts of ham, bacon, cinnamon and apple pancakes, chocolate and banana pancakes, watermelon, melon, yogurt, tim hortons coffee, doughnuts (not all on the same day thankfully!!).
I have tons coming up in the next 3 weeks; prayer meetings, two conferences, goodbyes and all the pais stuff - which is a lot!
Right now I could really do with prayer as I wrap up the year and say goodbye.
Rosie
Tuesday, May 06, 2008
Pais::Canada 24/7 Prayer
Hi,
Pais::Canada is doing a 24/7 prayer week from 6th-13th May.
If you would like to join us, that would be fantastic.
Prayer needs :: Pais Canada
Vancouver Eastside Team:: Rose, Rahel, Tabea
Integration
Truth in McBride Elementary
Love at John Oliver Secondary
Value shown to the students at Livingstone
Students at Tupper Secondary equipped – young leaders empowered
People journeying with and being faithful to the students at Simon Fraser
Good relationships with staff in all schools
Leader for the Eastside team next year
Connection between younger and older generation in youth groups and in schools work
Jayda – student at McBride who has recently been attending youth!
Chancy – a student from Tupper who we've made deep connection with
Vancouver Salvation Army Team:: Becky, Lotte
Vinny – a student the team has been working with one on one.
Templeton
Aries – alternative school
McDonald School – the team run a weekly drama club with the students there
History Maker – students who aren't Christians yet are going to history maker with the team! Please pray they will be open to what God has to say!
Integration
North Vancouver Team:: Jenna, Ruthie, Andrew
Integration (specifically with Grade 6 Queen Mary girls – already come to events and have relationships with Jenna)
Seycove students::
Linden (Shadowing the team on Wednesday! Wants to be a Pais worker but doesn't know Jesus, yet.)
Lucas
Dustin
Britney
Sterling
Katherine
Westview / Northshore Alliance Church would deepen their connection.
Outreach BBQ at Westview would be a success
LGCA servant leadership club would grow and change the hearts of the students to focus on outreach
LGCA car wash goes well
NSAC:: Build a core team for pre-teens at NSAC
- Heinz leaders and DIG teachers.
- Sock hand out/camp out goes well
St SIMONS:: Girls bible study develops deeper community
- Unity in youth group
- Wisdom for youth leadership
- Deeper connection between St Simon's youth and Seycove students.
Westside:: Rosie, Robin, Jess
(*names of certain students changed)
Bayview::
- James*- robin has been working one-2-one with him
- film enrichment class; the students would continue to enjoy it and learn how to settle differences
- hugh hooper(principal) - wisdom as he leads the school (he is a christian)
Lord Byng::
- we would see the same students each week, and develop meaningful relationships with them.
- especially; leah, evan, russell
- maria(principal) - she would see her dream of school community come to fruition
UHill::
- robins soccer group; numbers would increase and they would come to christ. the ice would be broken. he would love to talk about christ and answer their questions
- Anne* - that she would make wise decisions about her friends
- relationship with staff -diane- would continue to increase. we have built a strogn foundation.
Kits::
- we have just started an after school drop at the church and can't advertise on the school; so that we would be able to connect with students
- for cal - a grade 8 who just started a underground prayer group in the school; right now thank god for continuing the work of his kingdom and letting me be a part of it. Also pray that ppl in the group would step up and decide that they want to practice their faith, not just believe it as a sort of safety net. And pray that god help sme have the courage and strength to stand up for him and confront ppl. (i am NOT good at confronting...)
- the school would open up to christian groups and pais.
PGCC/UTOWN::
- the youth would transition well, with tom and rosie leaving, we find the right youth pastor
- we would become more missional
UC::
- Unity
Canadian Department:: Rebecca, Ali
Recruitment- we need 9 new interns for next year
Fundraising- we need finances to make our year-end budget
Leadership- that God would continue to develop our leaders, give them wisdom etc
Calgary- that God would be preparing the hearts of those we're coming to serve there.
Thanks
Rosie
Pais::Canada is doing a 24/7 prayer week from 6th-13th May.
If you would like to join us, that would be fantastic.
Prayer needs :: Pais Canada
Vancouver Eastside Team:: Rose, Rahel, Tabea
Integration
Truth in McBride Elementary
Love at John Oliver Secondary
Value shown to the students at Livingstone
Students at Tupper Secondary equipped – young leaders empowered
People journeying with and being faithful to the students at Simon Fraser
Good relationships with staff in all schools
Leader for the Eastside team next year
Connection between younger and older generation in youth groups and in schools work
Jayda – student at McBride who has recently been attending youth!
Chancy – a student from Tupper who we've made deep connection with
Vancouver Salvation Army Team:: Becky, Lotte
Vinny – a student the team has been working with one on one.
Templeton
Aries – alternative school
McDonald School – the team run a weekly drama club with the students there
History Maker – students who aren't Christians yet are going to history maker with the team! Please pray they will be open to what God has to say!
Integration
North Vancouver Team:: Jenna, Ruthie, Andrew
Integration (specifically with Grade 6 Queen Mary girls – already come to events and have relationships with Jenna)
Seycove students::
Linden (Shadowing the team on Wednesday! Wants to be a Pais worker but doesn't know Jesus, yet.)
Lucas
Dustin
Britney
Sterling
Katherine
Westview / Northshore Alliance Church would deepen their connection.
Outreach BBQ at Westview would be a success
LGCA servant leadership club would grow and change the hearts of the students to focus on outreach
LGCA car wash goes well
NSAC:: Build a core team for pre-teens at NSAC
- Heinz leaders and DIG teachers.
- Sock hand out/camp out goes well
St SIMONS:: Girls bible study develops deeper community
- Unity in youth group
- Wisdom for youth leadership
- Deeper connection between St Simon's youth and Seycove students.
Westside:: Rosie, Robin, Jess
(*names of certain students changed)
Bayview::
- James*- robin has been working one-2-one with him
- film enrichment class; the students would continue to enjoy it and learn how to settle differences
- hugh hooper(principal) - wisdom as he leads the school (he is a christian)
Lord Byng::
- we would see the same students each week, and develop meaningful relationships with them.
- especially; leah, evan, russell
- maria(principal) - she would see her dream of school community come to fruition
UHill::
- robins soccer group; numbers would increase and they would come to christ. the ice would be broken. he would love to talk about christ and answer their questions
- Anne* - that she would make wise decisions about her friends
- relationship with staff -diane- would continue to increase. we have built a strogn foundation.
Kits::
- we have just started an after school drop at the church and can't advertise on the school; so that we would be able to connect with students
- for cal - a grade 8 who just started a underground prayer group in the school; right now thank god for continuing the work of his kingdom and letting me be a part of it. Also pray that ppl in the group would step up and decide that they want to practice their faith, not just believe it as a sort of safety net. And pray that god help sme have the courage and strength to stand up for him and confront ppl. (i am NOT good at confronting...)
- the school would open up to christian groups and pais.
PGCC/UTOWN::
- the youth would transition well, with tom and rosie leaving, we find the right youth pastor
- we would become more missional
UC::
- Unity
Canadian Department:: Rebecca, Ali
Recruitment- we need 9 new interns for next year
Fundraising- we need finances to make our year-end budget
Leadership- that God would continue to develop our leaders, give them wisdom etc
Calgary- that God would be preparing the hearts of those we're coming to serve there.
Thanks
Rosie
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
catching up
hi,
im sorry that ever since that week of mad blogging its been a while. life has been sweeping by me. but today i got to walk to work along the beach in brilliant sunshine.. god is amazing.
many of you know I went to england over spring break to visit mainly my grandma, the visit was planned quickly and so i rushed off without really processing all that was going on. it was good to catch up with friends and family and even manage to squeeze in a saints match - i finally got my rugby fix.
as i was traveling to the airport to return to vancouver my grandma took a turn for the worse, but i boarded the flight, a few hours after i returned to vancouver she passed away. hearing news like that is never easy by email and i don't think it fully sunk it for a few days. i didn't think i would be returning for the funeral as i had just been to england so off i went to work and started to get into the flow of things. on wednesday morning my dad offered to fly me home if i would like, after debating this and then deciding i would regret it if i didn't, i agreed to fly back and he started booking flights. i ended up flying that afternoon. i kept the second time i was home very quiet, many people didn't know i returned.. so sorry if you are one of them.
i then returned to vancouver on 13th april.. so now i can say i am fully catching up with live this side of the atlantic and its pretty much full steam ahead (unless my head says no!). since i've been back i have attended large youth events, had meals out with friends, enjoyed snow and weather so sunny and gorgeous you don't need a jumper, and generally had a pretty awesome time.
so much of the westside news, is based on what happened in my absence - robin and jess, did really well, im proud of them!.. so we started a new piece of ministry, opening up a church in the westside opposite kit's high school for after school drop in once a week. robin and jess have huge enthusiasm for this school, so now we pray around it once a week! lord byng is going well and we got to hang out with some students today and play cards :) and bayview filming has stopped and we have started editing - with me the star of one of the films.. oh dear and some hilarious footage from the lads. u-hill has been going great with robin starting a football tournament and staying till 7pm with students what we had in the first term! God is defiantly doing some thing on the westside.
thailand.. where am i up to.. well after having said yes, the next big step is booking my flights - i cant do the visa or injections until i get back to the uk for the summer) so what i really need now is the money to book them. as thailand draws closer i get more and more excited and more and more convinced this is the right next step and that yanking myself out of this city is the right thing to do. if you have any questions about thailand please please talk to me.
prayer requests:
1. i would stop hitting my head and that it would fully heal
2. kits students will come to the drop in
3. everything with thailand works out
4. for dan my brother :)
im sorry that ever since that week of mad blogging its been a while. life has been sweeping by me. but today i got to walk to work along the beach in brilliant sunshine.. god is amazing.
many of you know I went to england over spring break to visit mainly my grandma, the visit was planned quickly and so i rushed off without really processing all that was going on. it was good to catch up with friends and family and even manage to squeeze in a saints match - i finally got my rugby fix.
as i was traveling to the airport to return to vancouver my grandma took a turn for the worse, but i boarded the flight, a few hours after i returned to vancouver she passed away. hearing news like that is never easy by email and i don't think it fully sunk it for a few days. i didn't think i would be returning for the funeral as i had just been to england so off i went to work and started to get into the flow of things. on wednesday morning my dad offered to fly me home if i would like, after debating this and then deciding i would regret it if i didn't, i agreed to fly back and he started booking flights. i ended up flying that afternoon. i kept the second time i was home very quiet, many people didn't know i returned.. so sorry if you are one of them.
i then returned to vancouver on 13th april.. so now i can say i am fully catching up with live this side of the atlantic and its pretty much full steam ahead (unless my head says no!). since i've been back i have attended large youth events, had meals out with friends, enjoyed snow and weather so sunny and gorgeous you don't need a jumper, and generally had a pretty awesome time.
so much of the westside news, is based on what happened in my absence - robin and jess, did really well, im proud of them!.. so we started a new piece of ministry, opening up a church in the westside opposite kit's high school for after school drop in once a week. robin and jess have huge enthusiasm for this school, so now we pray around it once a week! lord byng is going well and we got to hang out with some students today and play cards :) and bayview filming has stopped and we have started editing - with me the star of one of the films.. oh dear and some hilarious footage from the lads. u-hill has been going great with robin starting a football tournament and staying till 7pm with students what we had in the first term! God is defiantly doing some thing on the westside.
thailand.. where am i up to.. well after having said yes, the next big step is booking my flights - i cant do the visa or injections until i get back to the uk for the summer) so what i really need now is the money to book them. as thailand draws closer i get more and more excited and more and more convinced this is the right next step and that yanking myself out of this city is the right thing to do. if you have any questions about thailand please please talk to me.
prayer requests:
1. i would stop hitting my head and that it would fully heal
2. kits students will come to the drop in
3. everything with thailand works out
4. for dan my brother :)
Friday, March 14, 2008
Wednesday, March 12, 2008
the next step
After much discussion, thinking and prayer I will be leaving Vancouver and moving on. As much as it breaks my heart to leave this city, the place that has become my home and where my Canadian family and friends are; that God has broken my heart for, I know its time to move on. It will be tough in June when I finally leave, but I know I will back at some point, that I came to Vancouver for a reason and it has grown and stretched me. It will always have a great big chunk of my heart .. don't worry tom. I will never forget the city, that managed to draw me closer to God, stun me with the scenery and reconstruct me.
God has been placing lost and forgotten youth on islands around the world on heart. I see the move Im making as a start on that road and I am extremely excited that I that I have this chance to start to livng this dream into reality.
In August I will be moving to Phuket, Thailand. I will continue with the Pais Project and therefore still be doing schools and youth ministry. I will spend time in Thai schools, International schools, a HIV/AIDS children's home, another children's home - orphanage, and some work with Burmese Refugees and lots more. I am really looking foward to living in in Asia, experiencing a new culture and language - yes i will be learning trying to learn Thai!
Check out the Pais Thailand page for more information.
This video may give you some insight into some of the work I may be doing.
If you have any questions or feel you would like to support me or Pais Thailand financially or with your prayers please let me know.
God has been placing lost and forgotten youth on islands around the world on heart. I see the move Im making as a start on that road and I am extremely excited that I that I have this chance to start to livng this dream into reality.
In August I will be moving to Phuket, Thailand. I will continue with the Pais Project and therefore still be doing schools and youth ministry. I will spend time in Thai schools, International schools, a HIV/AIDS children's home, another children's home - orphanage, and some work with Burmese Refugees and lots more. I am really looking foward to living in in Asia, experiencing a new culture and language - yes i will be learning trying to learn Thai!
Check out the Pais Thailand page for more information.
This video may give you some insight into some of the work I may be doing.
If you have any questions or feel you would like to support me or Pais Thailand financially or with your prayers please let me know.
pais promo video
This video highlights some of the awesome stuff Pais does. If your interested or have any questions, please let me know!
www.paisproject.com - join the movement! Pais Project offers a free 1-year (or more) apprenticeship in youth and schools ministry. Free training and accommodation is provided in various nations across the world. Our pais apprentices will intern at a partnered church, working within their youth ministry and helping to build a relational bridge between the church and the schools within the community. Apprentices will work in small teams within the schools, offering services such as lunch-clubs, workshops, chapels, life-lessons and mentoring, while building life-changing relationships with their students. We are committed to seeing students raised up as leaders and M4 is our program that intentionally makes missionaries out of the young people we work with. We are missionaries making missionaries!
Thanks for all your support and prayers as I journey with Pais and the vision God has placed on my heart.
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
