Original letter written on May 9th & 10th, 2008:
Dear Friends & Family,
As some of you already know, I will be leaving Calgary for Montreal tomorrow to embark upon a 7 week mission trip. 6 of those weeks will be with the Christian ministry called Campus for Christ (http://www.campusforchrist.org). The 7th week I will be solo, but partnering with a church in the south of France called Calvary Chapel Nice (http://ccnice.blogspot.com). I will be away from my hometown Calgary from May 10 - June 30 and am super excited about the opportunities that lie ahead!!
For those of you who are aware of how much I love to write and how long my emails can be, I have broken this one up into sections that will be easier to scroll to:
1) Itinerary & Trip Description
2) Mini update on my life
3) What God has been doing in my life recently
4) What you can be praying for
Dear Friends & Family,
As some of you already know, I will be leaving Calgary for Montreal tomorrow to embark upon a 7 week mission trip. 6 of those weeks will be with the Christian ministry called Campus for Christ (http://www.campusforchrist.org). The 7th week I will be solo, but partnering with a church in the south of France called Calvary Chapel Nice (http://ccnice.blogspot.com). I will be away from my hometown Calgary from May 10 - June 30 and am super excited about the opportunities that lie ahead!!
For those of you who are aware of how much I love to write and how long my emails can be, I have broken this one up into sections that will be easier to scroll to:
1) Itinerary & Trip Description
2) Mini update on my life
3) What God has been doing in my life recently
4) What you can be praying for
5) An awesome passage
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1) Itinerary & Description
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For the beginning of the project with Campus for Christ our team of 12-14 students will be in Montreal from May 10-June 5 and will focus on Campus ministry. This means that we will be on the campuses of University of Quebec in Montreal and the University of Montreal daily. On campus we will be meeting with students and sharing the message of Jesus Christ with them in French. We will also be holding some special events to connect with students.
For the second half of the project we will be flying to Paris, France to connect with students on the University campuses of Paris. Here we will be working again alongside Campus for Christ staff workers with the French Campus for Christ ministry called Agape France (http://www.agapefrance.org/agape) as well as other Christian churches and ministries. Both parts of the project will be similar in what we as students will focus on: sharing the love of Jesus to those who have never heard about it. We will stay in Paris from June 5 - June 22.
My solo week from June 23-June 30 I will be heading down to Nice to serve the Calvary Chapel church there where I know the pastor and missionaries from visiting them last summer.
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1) Itinerary & Description
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For the beginning of the project with Campus for Christ our team of 12-14 students will be in Montreal from May 10-June 5 and will focus on Campus ministry. This means that we will be on the campuses of University of Quebec in Montreal and the University of Montreal daily. On campus we will be meeting with students and sharing the message of Jesus Christ with them in French. We will also be holding some special events to connect with students.
For the second half of the project we will be flying to Paris, France to connect with students on the University campuses of Paris. Here we will be working again alongside Campus for Christ staff workers with the French Campus for Christ ministry called Agape France (http://www.agapefrance.org/agape) as well as other Christian churches and ministries. Both parts of the project will be similar in what we as students will focus on: sharing the love of Jesus to those who have never heard about it. We will stay in Paris from June 5 - June 22.
My solo week from June 23-June 30 I will be heading down to Nice to serve the Calvary Chapel church there where I know the pastor and missionaries from visiting them last summer.
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2) Mini update of my life
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Life is fabulous! Really, I am loving it here in Calgary and am really enjoying my degree and all that God has for me out here.
There are a couple new things going on in my life:
A) I have just had braces put back on both my upper and lower teeth because I had corrective jaw surgery in December on the upper jaw and will have the finishing surgery on the lower jaw next May. Once the second surgery is complete I will be able to bite into anything and everything which will be such a blessing to eat normally.
B) I just finished my 3rd year of Communications Studies at the University of Calgary. I am doing a program called Bachelor of Communications Studies Coop. This program enables me to do work terms in between my semesters of school to gain experience in various communications fields. I have one course left to finish at the University this summer and then this September I will be moving onto the second phase of my degree at SAIT Polytechnic (Southern Alberta Institute of Technology). There I will be majoring in Radio Broadcasting which is a two year program.
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3) What God has been doing in my life recently
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As I have been preparing for this near 2 month trip, I have seen God move powerfully in my life and others lives in ways that have astounded me. There is one story in specific that is actually (according to some of my friends) hard to believe that it's true and that it happened to me. It is actually somewhat of a detailed story, so I have included an attachment that will walk you through the story and gives light to the amazing and cool work God has been doing.
3) What God has been doing in my life recently
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As I have been preparing for this near 2 month trip, I have seen God move powerfully in my life and others lives in ways that have astounded me. There is one story in specific that is actually (according to some of my friends) hard to believe that it's true and that it happened to me. It is actually somewhat of a detailed story, so I have included an attachment that will walk you through the story and gives light to the amazing and cool work God has been doing.
Even though you can check out the attachment, I will simply wet your appetite for what is to come...It all starts with a bright pink glow in the dark bracelet that I got in Holland...and a self professing athiestic Jewish professor with whom I took the best University course of my life with in my 2nd year at the U of C...I can't tell you anymore or I will ruin the rest of the story, but I encourage you to set aside some time to read it as it will blow your mind and hopefully inspire you. It is to come in the next post.
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4) What you can be praying for
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As I head out on this amazing journey, there will be some challenging times for sure, but I am encouraged and uplifted when I think of all of you and how you have supported me to get here. In fact, not only have many of you committed to partner with me by praying, but many of you have also supported me financially as I set out on this mission. How blessed I was and eternally thankful when ALL of my support AND MORE rushed in within 3 weeks of me starting to raise funds. WOW! That's really all I can say, it just confirmed in my heart that you all are with me, as well as confirming how I have felt the Lord directing me towards sharing Jesus to the French. So cool.
I greatly appreciate your prayers, and as the project starts I would ask you to pray for:
-good health
-direction towards helping with specific ministry tasks
-group unity
-great group communication (as many of us are anglophones that are hoping we are bilingual)
-that I can express who I really am and my heart effectively in French
-and mostly, that the seeds of the gospel of Jesus Christ would be spread throughout the campuses of Montreal and Paris
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5) An awesome passage
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I have one verse that has stuck out to me recently (I think because of the nature of my trip) that I just love and wanted to share with you all before I sign off and try to sleep a few winks before I leave my house in about 2 hours for the airport (I'm so excited I can't sleep!!):
From 2 Corinthians 2:14-15
"But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of him. For we are to God the aroma of Christ among those who are being saved and those who are perishing"
Also verse 17 is great "Unlike so many, we do not peddle the word of God for profit. On the contrary, in Christ we speak before God with sincerity, like men sent from God."
May you all have a blessed weekend, and thank you for reading!
Grace & Peace,
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