Today I attended a friends funeral for their Grandfather. I never met him myself, but I couldn't help but think that I knew him. Over the years I have gotten to know one of there Sons, Garret, pretty good through volunteering at our church youth group. I've gotten to know most of his kids pretty good as well, and they have all turned out pretty strong in their beliefs. I mention this because, like I said earlier, I have never met him face to face before but that doesn't mean I don't know him.
Jesus was called the Son of God, not because He was born of God the Father but, because when you look at the son you see the father. When I look at the Snellen girls I see the same strong faith and friendship that I see in their dad. And when I see Garret and how he is very strong in what he believes and how important his family is to him, I can't help but see that it also came from his father.
Lord Jesus, please be with the Snellen family as they have just lost someone who is dear to them. Though not a permanent loss, it is still a hard thing to bear. But we will meet up with him one day, he just beat us home. So until that day, please help the Snellens through this difficult time in their life. Amen.
Thursday, February 18, 2010
Wednesday, February 17, 2010
Memories
My youth group is going to Snow Camp this Friday, I can not go due to work. But the very fact that they are going brings memories to mind of the first time I went to Snow Camp.
It my first time ever going to a camp in the winter time. We all arrived there by bus, received our team color, green, and headed off to our cabin. In the morning we all had a huge breakfast and started on the planned activities. First off was BARBARIAN!!!!! Oh man! What a game. For those of you who are unaware of what Barbarian is, here is a rundown of the game.
The field is split up into four groups with a circle where the judges are in the middle. Think of a cross with a circle where the two lines meet. In each section of the cross, a circle with five balls in it. Every player has a flag attached to there body. Now that you can picture the field and players, here comes the good stuff. The goal of the game is to collect as many balls from the other teams territory and add it to your own. If you see someone in your territory than you take them down, take their flag, and turn it into the judges for end game points.
Okay, now that you know how the game works, back to my story.
The very first time I ever played Barbarian, we were all having fun, getting some balls, stopping some others from getting ours, we were doing pretty good. From my point of view we had a pretty good defense and a few fast and agile people who would attack. I thought this isn't to hard. And then it happened. All at once, with not so much as a warning, the red team, the yellow team, and the blue team all attacked us at once!!! People were rushing in trying desperately to get the balls out of our territory. We all surrounded the circle, me and another girl, Paige, were busy tackling, blocking, ripping off flags, and just taking our opponents to the ground. Sometimes, I would hold them up and she would take the flag, other times I would take them down and strip them of it myself. And a couple of times Paige shocked me by taking down guys who were three times her size. I didn't know how anybody else was doing until it all stopped. People stopped rushing in on us and started to head back toward the center with the last bit of flags they had captured. We followed suit and went to the judges with a whopping 31 flags and were missing no balls whatsoever!!! It was the best game I have ever played. Score one victory for the Green team.
The next big event was basketball. I didn't watch the game, but I did find out that we won the game. As we also won Volleyball we were the leaders of the weekend in points. We won the Barbarian game with a substantial lead in points, we won basketball and volleyball in what was a close game. And then came the talent show.
First of all, I do realize that this was kind of a jerkish thing to do, but it was funny none the less. We all decided to sing the Lion Sleeps tonight and then go into We Will Rock You afterwards. I had the Idea that we could each get a flag from a different color of team and when we all sang, "waving your banner all over the place", we would whip out the flags swirl then in the air and then throw them on the ground, "We will, we will rock you", stomp stomp on the flag clap, stomp stomp on the flag clap. Of course we invited all the green team up to take part in this, not just our youth group. Ending result, we got booed off stage!!! LOL, oh I could of expected a better response from the other teams. I mean, we didn't care if we lost the talent show, we had already won the weekend whether we won or lost , it didn't make a difference. So we just had a little fun.
Ah, yes, that was an event to remember for the ages. But the fun didn't end quite yet. Just before we left the camp, we all piled in our vehicles, rolled down the windows and blared "We are the Champions" just to end off the weekend.
One of our youth is going to Snow Camp this year and has never gone before. I sure hope that she has as much fun as I did when I first went there.
It my first time ever going to a camp in the winter time. We all arrived there by bus, received our team color, green, and headed off to our cabin. In the morning we all had a huge breakfast and started on the planned activities. First off was BARBARIAN!!!!! Oh man! What a game. For those of you who are unaware of what Barbarian is, here is a rundown of the game.
The field is split up into four groups with a circle where the judges are in the middle. Think of a cross with a circle where the two lines meet. In each section of the cross, a circle with five balls in it. Every player has a flag attached to there body. Now that you can picture the field and players, here comes the good stuff. The goal of the game is to collect as many balls from the other teams territory and add it to your own. If you see someone in your territory than you take them down, take their flag, and turn it into the judges for end game points.
Okay, now that you know how the game works, back to my story.
The very first time I ever played Barbarian, we were all having fun, getting some balls, stopping some others from getting ours, we were doing pretty good. From my point of view we had a pretty good defense and a few fast and agile people who would attack. I thought this isn't to hard. And then it happened. All at once, with not so much as a warning, the red team, the yellow team, and the blue team all attacked us at once!!! People were rushing in trying desperately to get the balls out of our territory. We all surrounded the circle, me and another girl, Paige, were busy tackling, blocking, ripping off flags, and just taking our opponents to the ground. Sometimes, I would hold them up and she would take the flag, other times I would take them down and strip them of it myself. And a couple of times Paige shocked me by taking down guys who were three times her size. I didn't know how anybody else was doing until it all stopped. People stopped rushing in on us and started to head back toward the center with the last bit of flags they had captured. We followed suit and went to the judges with a whopping 31 flags and were missing no balls whatsoever!!! It was the best game I have ever played. Score one victory for the Green team.
The next big event was basketball. I didn't watch the game, but I did find out that we won the game. As we also won Volleyball we were the leaders of the weekend in points. We won the Barbarian game with a substantial lead in points, we won basketball and volleyball in what was a close game. And then came the talent show.
First of all, I do realize that this was kind of a jerkish thing to do, but it was funny none the less. We all decided to sing the Lion Sleeps tonight and then go into We Will Rock You afterwards. I had the Idea that we could each get a flag from a different color of team and when we all sang, "waving your banner all over the place", we would whip out the flags swirl then in the air and then throw them on the ground, "We will, we will rock you", stomp stomp on the flag clap, stomp stomp on the flag clap. Of course we invited all the green team up to take part in this, not just our youth group. Ending result, we got booed off stage!!! LOL, oh I could of expected a better response from the other teams. I mean, we didn't care if we lost the talent show, we had already won the weekend whether we won or lost , it didn't make a difference. So we just had a little fun.
Ah, yes, that was an event to remember for the ages. But the fun didn't end quite yet. Just before we left the camp, we all piled in our vehicles, rolled down the windows and blared "We are the Champions" just to end off the weekend.
One of our youth is going to Snow Camp this year and has never gone before. I sure hope that she has as much fun as I did when I first went there.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
That was a long tunnel.
Over the past few years, it has seemed to me that my dad has hard a pretty hard time, what with his back, not having a job, as well as other health problems seemed to hit him one after the other. Whenever anyone feels, that you can imagine your in a dark tunnel, no light to be found. And just when you think things can't get any worse, the car gets wrecked. You know that God will provide the way out, but you don't have an idea of when or where you will get back out of this tunnel. Then the unthinkable happens, "is that light up ahead?"
Praise be to God as my dad has found a job in Kitchener at Glencairn MB Church, and is finally out of this tunnel! For the first time in my parents life they will have enough money to live life a little more comfortably and be able to pay off some old debts! Thats a burden lifted, and from what I could tell, Glencairn seems to be a very Family oriented church. So that will also help with the spiritual healing all need when going through or coming out of a rough patch in you life.
Lord, thank you so much for this Blessing you have given my parents. I know that it has been longed for for many years. All the struggles and hardships my family faced was to help us grow into a family who trusts you for provision, and you have provided. Thank You, amen.
Praise be to God as my dad has found a job in Kitchener at Glencairn MB Church, and is finally out of this tunnel! For the first time in my parents life they will have enough money to live life a little more comfortably and be able to pay off some old debts! Thats a burden lifted, and from what I could tell, Glencairn seems to be a very Family oriented church. So that will also help with the spiritual healing all need when going through or coming out of a rough patch in you life.
Lord, thank you so much for this Blessing you have given my parents. I know that it has been longed for for many years. All the struggles and hardships my family faced was to help us grow into a family who trusts you for provision, and you have provided. Thank You, amen.
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