Lights

Well friends,
My time here in Dunham, Quebec has become a very busy life. Between daily lectures and house chores,  worship, intercession, lunch dishes, community service projects we also have different projects we have to tackle. Recently we had an art project where we had to create a psalm in our own art form. People wrote songs, poems, created drawings, paintings, sculptures, dances, someone even did a fire dance! I made a quilt in honor of my grandma. It was a very simple small wall hanging one. Most of it was different colored plain blue squares and on top of them I had puzzle pieces. Each piece represented something God had done in my life or a decision I made, all the different puzzles pieces met together near the center and created a explosion where I had fabric sewn on to look like it was exploding off the quilt. The explosion on my quilt created different puzzle pieces, some of which were; fabric with red and white maple leaves to represent coming to Canada; a circus material, since the theme of our DTS is Holy Circus; and a fabric with Brazilian colors on it. And because of coming to Canada and going my DTS I discovered how much God loves me and he ripped away what would of been a very plain future of blue squares and instead gave me this future of knowing his love, where I had all different floral prints to show how I can be like a little girl running through a field admiring all the beautiful flowers and just soak in God's beauty and grace.
Now all of that took about 3 days and 2 very late nights to make. During which I was sick but ignored it till I presented my quilt to the YWAM base. The day after that got up for worship but then found I was so sickly I had to go back to bed. And I slept till about 4. I felt much better but it still took a couple more days to get over that sickness.
This past week we have be studying the topic of Justice. Our teacher was Dave Skeen, and he gave each of the 5 outreach teams a different injustice that was happening in the world and we had to research it and create a video so raise awareness about it. My outreach team was given the topic of  "aboriginal health issues due to tar-sands". When I first heard our topic I was like "WHAA!" I've never heard of tar-sands before. And it's amazing that I haven't because it causing so much devastation here in Canada. Here is the video...

It was a challenging time for our team. We had done most of the research and created the drawings for the first bit of the video but we had put nothing together until the night before. Plus the day the day before it was due the computer we were going to use because of the program it had got a virus and the person on our team with the most video creating skills also got a virus. So yeah, it took us till 4 in the morning to make it. BUT we weren't the last team to go to bed that night. One guy was up till 5:30 making their video. CRAZY.

Coming up I have to do a newspaper article/ book report type thing on Rob Bell's book "Sex God". I would tell you a little bit about it but I haven't started reading it yet. Heh. We'll see how this goes. 

Anyway, in all of this craziness I have had some great times with the people here with me. The compassion DTS here graduated last week and we were all up till 1:30 in the morning dancing. A group of us went on a walk in 0 degree weather to a frozen lake and had a picnic on it. Also I have found time to take some photos of the amazing people here. I have had many great times with this crazy bunch of people.

SO! I'm going to Brazil for outreach!!! YAAAYY! I'm so excited! My team leader is a girl named Eva, she is from the Dominican Republic. The rest of the team is as follows; Caroline from Virgina; Dean from the Cayman Islands; Fiona from Scotland; Raphael from Germany; and Moi! For the first 3 weeks we will be with YWAM in Porto Velho working with the tribes in the Amazon. From there we travel to the city Brazila to work in a kids cancer hospital and also to work with a project that rescues kids from the indigenous tribes that buries kids alive if they have deformities or if they are twins. Mostly they offer shelter to mothers and the kids. We found out to the other day that for the first 3 weeks in Brazil we won't have a translator. So it will be a very challenging time but our team is going to be meeting together weekly for Portuguese lessons. 

Bon Nuit (good night)