If they won they got to have a mentor!
(Just kidding everyone got a mentor!)
Monday, November 3, 2008
The Price is Right - Outttatown Style
Andy led some students through an Outtatown version of the Price is Right...
If they won they got to have a mentor!
(Just kidding everyone got a mentor!)
If they won they got to have a mentor!
(Just kidding everyone got a mentor!)
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THE AMAZING RACE
By Jordan Beller
The amazing race was an event that we partook in when we did the Winnipeg Urban Plunge. I’ll just start off by saying congratulations to the winning team of Jason, Jessica and Abby.
The Urban Plunge brought us closer to realizing how fortunate we are in this broken, and yet beautiful world, that God has created. We saw how many of God’s people were continually being faithful in their work to help many people.
One of these people was Travis, and he was operating a community house and a home church. Harvey, another one of these people, helped children who came from a poorer background to try and give them a better future. He also taught us about the effects that drugs and prostitution have had on the community that he lives in. At the end of the race I came out a changed person for the better.
The amazing race was an event that we partook in when we did the Winnipeg Urban Plunge. I’ll just start off by saying congratulations to the winning team of Jason, Jessica and Abby.
The Urban Plunge brought us closer to realizing how fortunate we are in this broken, and yet beautiful world, that God has created. We saw how many of God’s people were continually being faithful in their work to help many people.
One of these people was Travis, and he was operating a community house and a home church. Harvey, another one of these people, helped children who came from a poorer background to try and give them a better future. He also taught us about the effects that drugs and prostitution have had on the community that he lives in. At the end of the race I came out a changed person for the better.
Never a dull day!
The average person's day is largely influenced by routine. In Outtatown we defintely do have routine, but we also our huge fans of making sure life doesn't become routine.
Days when we have speakers typically look like the following:
- begin with breakfast at 8:00
- session starts at 9:00 and goes until 11:00 (with a brief break in the middle)
- quiet time is at 11:00
- lunch is at 12:00
- session starts again from 1:00 to 3:00
- free time from 4:00 - 6:00
- and then often a program activity in the evening such as ANCHER (a community meeting), small group, south african history or worship
But we like to spice life up and our entertainment committee did a terrific job of helping us to do this by organizing a dress-up day!
Days when we have speakers typically look like the following:
- begin with breakfast at 8:00
- session starts at 9:00 and goes until 11:00 (with a brief break in the middle)
- quiet time is at 11:00
- lunch is at 12:00
- session starts again from 1:00 to 3:00
- free time from 4:00 - 6:00
- and then often a program activity in the evening such as ANCHER (a community meeting), small group, south african history or worship
But we like to spice life up and our entertainment committee did a terrific job of helping us to do this by organizing a dress-up day!
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Living in a Community
By: Scott McIntosh
Have you ever tired living with thirty other people? Well we have been doing just that for the last month and I have got to say, it is one of the most, well, interesting experiences I have ever had.
The whole idea of “what is mine is yours and yours is mine” has taken a whole new to us. We live literally on top of each other and in doing so have become an extremely tight knit community. We share everything with everybody, all the time and sometimes that’s tough, really tough.
Imagine, being woke up, 7:57am, breakfast is at 8, you jump out of bed grab for your sweater and oh there’s your sweater walking out the door on someone else. Your frustration of being cold on the way to breakfast, as well as late is starting to build when you walk out to see everyone going to be late!
Your brief anger rushes to laughter and thus starts another awesome day in our site two community.
With each day, we learn more about each other and take up new challenges, and wild experiences. As a strong community we try ANYTHING…body surfing through rapids, rope swing into water that feels like two degrees…easy no problem.
Twenty-one in two bedrooms…well that is a bit sketchy but our community even conquers this seemingly impossible feat.
It truly is amazing to see how God is working in our small community to let us become more of a family. It is honestly the most wicked chill time having 9 brothers and 21 sisters.
Even though we have spent a mere month together we already mean so much to each other, and I for one am amped to see which challenges and barriers we as a family living for God will overcome next!
Starting with…figuring out how to have enough hot water for the guys once ALL the girls have taken their showers. Pray for us!
Have you ever tired living with thirty other people? Well we have been doing just that for the last month and I have got to say, it is one of the most, well, interesting experiences I have ever had.
The whole idea of “what is mine is yours and yours is mine” has taken a whole new to us. We live literally on top of each other and in doing so have become an extremely tight knit community. We share everything with everybody, all the time and sometimes that’s tough, really tough.
Imagine, being woke up, 7:57am, breakfast is at 8, you jump out of bed grab for your sweater and oh there’s your sweater walking out the door on someone else. Your frustration of being cold on the way to breakfast, as well as late is starting to build when you walk out to see everyone going to be late!
Your brief anger rushes to laughter and thus starts another awesome day in our site two community.
With each day, we learn more about each other and take up new challenges, and wild experiences. As a strong community we try ANYTHING…body surfing through rapids, rope swing into water that feels like two degrees…easy no problem.
Twenty-one in two bedrooms…well that is a bit sketchy but our community even conquers this seemingly impossible feat.
It truly is amazing to see how God is working in our small community to let us become more of a family. It is honestly the most wicked chill time having 9 brothers and 21 sisters.
Even though we have spent a mere month together we already mean so much to each other, and I for one am amped to see which challenges and barriers we as a family living for God will overcome next!
Starting with…figuring out how to have enough hot water for the guys once ALL the girls have taken their showers. Pray for us!
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