CURLING!!!

Okay, new info on the curling. It is now at 12pm (that's NOON) at the downtown curling club on Saturday October 6th. We will curl for 2 hours, then go to the church for Thanksgiving dinner. SO we need to know if you are coming. Comment here or on the facebook group if you are!!! Also, wear clean runners for curling, and bring $10.
Please reply ASAP!!!

We're back

Okay, we're trying out the blog again. Hopefully there are people out there who will read this. If you haven't been out to Young Adults yet this year, you are missing out. Our last nights have been amazing and everyone is so excited about the year. We meet weekly on Wednesday nights at Kamloops Alliance church on the North Shore of Kamloops just by the Overlander bridge.

Some things to remember: This Sunday, our first Y.A. potluck. It's happening at 1 pm, just after the second service at the church. Bring food. We're there to eat, talk and have a good time.

Saturday, October 6th, we are having a Thanksgiving social event. We're hoping to go curling around 3 or 4 and then come back to the church for a fire, hot chocolate and coffee and a Thanksgiving meal together later on. We'll let you knowmore information when we figure it out ourselves.

Small groups are meeting in the week. Both our girls and guys groups are meeting on Monday nights. If you want more information, contact the church. 376-6268. Or email me (Jim) at kedgie_j@hotmail.com.

Digital Camera Car Rally

I really don't think that anybody still reads this as it appears the blogging fad is dead amongst most of you Young Adults. However, if you do read this, just to let you know, this Thursday, July 19th we are going to be hosting a Digital Camera Car Rally where you will be put into a team, given a guide of things to look for plus a digital camera and then sent out to go and get as many pictures as you can. This will be amazingly fun and you should all come. The cost is $5 for food and gas. It's well worth it. See you there.

Thursday June 28

This week the BBQ is at Heidi and Kailyn's house. We are back to bring your own meat again this week. See you there!

Bowling = Awesome

This Thursday's activity is Bowling at Bowlertime (that's the one on 8th St. on the North Shore) at 7 pm. Cost is approximately $9 for two games and a shoe rental.

Hungry For Life

Hello All;
So do you remember a month or so ago when we took a collection for Hungry for Life?!?! Well, now we are trying to decide which project to give that money to. So go check the awesome new Hungry for Life site, and look at all the projects (there are a ton - this organization is doing a lot of good work!) and comment back here on which one you'd like to see your money go to.

Oh yeah, BBQ this upcoming Thursday (The 14th) is at our house. Come and welcome the new grads and have some ***FREE*** food!

Thoughts on Outreach

As you all probably know, the group will really be focussing on outreach next year. I encourage all of you to spend some of your summer to think about what that will look like for you personally - how you will reach out to the people you know next year? Here's a verse to help get everyone thinking....

But how can they call on him to save them unless they believe in him? And how can they believe in him if they have never heard about him? And how can they hear about him unless someone tells them? And how will anyone go and tell them without being sent? That is what the Scriptures mean when they say, "How beautiful are the feet of those who bring good news" Romans 10:14-15

Update from Corrina at Hungry for Life

Here's an update from Corrina. Please continue to pray for her recovery, and pray for the ministry that she has through Hungry for Life. I think that we should also be praying for hearts that break when God's heart does, that we will feel our self centredness and self pity fade away as we focus on the things that Jesus cares about, that in the light of all the sorrow and sadness in the world that we will be compelled, both corporately and as individuals, to act, and that we too may say that we are blessed so that we can bless others.

From Corrina:

On The Home Front:

Over an entire week had gone by, filled with many ups and downs and a consistent flow of visitors that kept me company during my at-home recovery. The excruciating pain that I had dreaded, thankfully, was not my companion. Only my mild discomfort has been at my side throughout each day. While my addiction to Facebook (the latest and greatest in the internet world) had kept me up at night, it had not been enough of a distraction to keep me out of the pity party that I was throwing for myself since my surgery on Thursday, April 19. However, Sunday, 10 days after going under the knife, was a different day than the rest. In the warm sunlight and the cool breeze of spring, I sat outside in an attempt to finish a book I had begun the day before. This was not a novel or a fairy tale with a happily-ever-after ending. Even though I knew this collaboration of 12 essays on social justice was not for the faint-of-heart, I was unprepared for the harsh reality of its pages and my unprecedented response.

The book is entitled “The Revolution: A Field Manual for Changing Your World.” The previous afternoon, I had read the short forward and the introduction, with which I so deeply resonated. And as I moved from the chapters on clean water, gang violence and women’s rights to the chapters on hunger and HIV/AIDS my heart broke into more and more tiny pieces. The words were becoming blurry, not from the bright sunlight, but from the salty water flowing from both eyes and down the sides of my face. Pages describing real people, real situations, real pain—pain unimaginable to my comfortable, safe and secure life in Canada. As I sat on the lawn chair with my ice tea in one hand and Kleenex in the other, everything in me cried out with intense indignation, “How can I complain about my current situation (or any other situation in which I find myself) when there is so much needless suffering in my world—both here and over there?!”

I closed the book, knowing that I couldn’t read on any further for fear that my heart would just stop beating. I stood up to walk and in that moment God reminded me He has blessed me in order that I would be a blessing to others; my life is not about me. As I read this weekend and recounted my recent first-hand experiences of how “the rest of the world” lives, my burden is growing stronger and I am, now more than ever, compelled to act on behalf of the poor, the suffering, the sick and the marginalized. And the desires, dreams, wishes and wants of my own life, as trivial as they are, are fading away in the light of what God has called me to be and do.

“So how have you been doing since surgery?” you ask. Well, the chance to rest my body and engage in further soul-searching, it’s been life-changing to say the least. I desire to be a voice for those who have no voice; to fight for justice on behalf those who are oppressed; to show mercy and compassion to those in need. For in this expression of my faith in God, I will be evermore renewed in His image.

Prayer Requests:

• Physical healing from surgery
• Motivation to accomplish work from home
• Spiritual renewal in this “slower” time

Thank you for your continued support; I could not do this without you!

Thursday April 26th

Well, for those of you who missed it, Thursday night was great! We had David Bracken share his music with us, and we definitely experienced God through his words and music. Jim spoke on outreach - why we do it and how we do it. Next year we will be taking one Thursday night a month and turning it into an outreach night; we will have a band and more evangelism based messages. This is something to bring your friends to!!! Next week we will be discussing other ways that we as a group can do outreach in Kamloops. Bring your great ideas! If there are any ideas that we can do that night, we will! Put on your thinking caps!!!

Thursday April 26th

Tonight we have David Bracken leading us in worship. Check out his site! Jim will be speaking on outreach. And there may or may not be a snack. I don't know. But if there is, I'm sure it will be yummy!!! By the way, a helpful tip for ensuring yummy snacks every Thursday night: Sign up to bring them!