Oct 22-28

Vancouver City

So we spent a week in the city of Vancouver. We got their on the 22 for a free weekend. We had 22 to the 24 off to go around the city to become familiar with it. We were in Vancouver to do the Urbane plunge. This is our second one on the trip. I remember on the saturday on our free weekend we were in the mall having lunch and this guy come up to Mate and asked him what he was reading. Mate replied and said the bible. He knew some of the bible to. When he was walking away i notice that his pants were dirty and had wholes every were. I said God if he need help let me know. Five minutes go later and i see him going through garbage trying to find food. My first reaction was to get up and ask him if we wanted lunch. His name is Joel and he loving working on a farm and milking cows. He plays Goutare and keyboard, his favorite genre is rock. Over that weekend God called a-lot of us to help some of the homeless. I thought it was so cool that God used us even before the plunge started.

Their were so many stories that i want to tell but I don’t have the time to tell them all. I would like to end with a man named Steven King. Me, Kate, Nadine and Darin were walking down the East side of Vancouver and handing out lunches and notes to people with hugs. We meet this man who was drunk and high because he lost $300. We asked is he wanted a hug. He replied that he was never loved before. The first hug he got almost made me cry. I could see in his eyes how much it meant to him. We decided to have lunch with him. He was starving, I was glad that we had his favorite samwitch for him. He read his not and stated to cry because no one has ever done this for him. at the bottom of the note he asked use to read the verse we put on it for him. He asked us f God loved him at all. We told him that God loved him so much that he died for him and hugged him. After talking to him for half an hour he got kick out of the Library because he was drink alcohol, we told him to put it away ( would get aggressive if we touched it so we didn't). He is a man who so desperately needs Gods love. if you could Pray for him that would be great (Steven King)

Oct,12,10

Guys week!

Guys week was a blast. We did tuns of crazy thing in one week, from paint-balling to having a big scavenger hunt in the beautiful town. Our speaker was Blayne who talked about girls and how we should look, treat and talk to. A really cool thing that we did in that week was that the guys come up with questions for the girls and the girls would do the same, then in the middle of the week we would trade and answer. It was neat to hear how similar the guys wanted to be treated with the same amount of respect as the girls did. God challenged alot of the guys from both the site about their relationships from home or the ones that are almost in play on the trip. By the end of the trip we were all pretty much pissed of with each other for the littlest things but thank God that we talked to the people who were pissed at us and that the talked to the people who were pissed of at them. At the end of it all the week was awesome!!!