What it means to be a Saskatchewanite

You know you are from Saskatchewan when you BBQ farmer sausage for supper in -20 degree weather!

Ever wake up and wonder where the past year went?

This past year has been filled with many challenges and opportunities. I spent half of the year at Youth With A Mission’s discipleship training school in Hawaii and as a result, was led to share Jesus with the poor in small-town India. Then I was excited to return to Philadelphia to minister to inner-city kids with my church’s youth group. After that, I was off to Ranger Lake Bible Camp where I worked as Head Lifeguard for the summer.

Currently, I’m working with LeaderImpact Group, a division of Campus Crusade for Christ (CCC). This feels like a gift from God. A good friend arranged an interview with CCC, and I have been an administrative assistant here for three months! God is good!

The mission of LeaderImpact Group is to provide Christian marketplace leaders with the confidence and resources to reach other leaders in their community with the message of Jesus. When I started work, I was challenged with an amazing opportunity to go on an International project and immediately felt God calling me to go. On March 1-11, fifty people from across Canada will head to Panama City for 10 days of training and ministry. The group will be divided into different ‘teams’; my group will minister to the ‘Young Guns’, that is, the future leaders of Panama, university students. We will do one-on-one meetings, Dinner for Friends, and outdoor presentations of the “Jesus Film.”

After much prayer I am positive that God provided this opportunity for me to serve Him. My directors and my parents are also greatly encouraging me to be part of this trip. I'm so excited to receive training on how to start spiritual conversations, lead someone to Christ and follow-up with a new believer!!

You never know what you're gonna get...

Life is really taking me on a roller coaster... & I mean this in all the best senses...
While I was in India, God supplied me with a summer lifeguard job and so after camp I was open to His leading as far as employment went and was, yeah, ..waiting. I applied to many offices and started researching receptionist-training courses as I had been told I would love that kind of job.

One day a friends father phoned me completely out of the blue. He asked me what my plans for the future were. I had no job - so, what plans?! He explained that the office next door to where he was working was seeking an administrative assistant and he was recommending me for the job! "So, think about it." He says. Then he phoned me back 5 mins later, and he had set me up with an interview that very afternoon. Before I know it, I'm filling in application forms and.. I started training as an administrative assistant for Campus Crusade for Christ the very next Monday!

I'm on probation for one month and seriously, my job description makes me swallow! Everything from communications to finances, to international and office operations... yikes!! God totally provided this job for me and it's got me wondering why... Still, I love how He never lets us have a dull moment when we are trusting Him. SO awesome! So yeah, I'm on a rollar-coaster ride with God... and lovin' every moment of it!!

My Sin

I don't know anything about you except the fact that you've been ripped off...

I have seen you standing alone and ignored in the midst of Christians, while they should've lovingly welcomed and accepted you.

I acknowledge that the church has failed in many ways and that you've suffered from it.

I have heard others judging you for your faults while believing their own sins are worthy of forgiveness.

I have witnessed the scorn, the distance, hurt, abuse, legalism and silence of churches worldwide.

I have attended churches and camps where you have been pursued as a statistic for a religion instead of a soul valued by God.

I'm guilty of thoughtlessly saying many carnal, self-centered, arrogant and prideful things that affected you in ways I was not aware of.

I'm guilty of neglecting my spiritual responsibility and misrepresenting the true loving character of God.

I don't want you to sign off the possibility of discovering the only One who can give you a connection deeper than love.

I'm desperate for you to taste the flavor of a relationship with a forgiving God, and not a rule-guided religion.

I am not promoting failure or sin, but believe that grace and restoration is found in repentence.

I would like to think that, as I am changed, the world is changed.

I feel that you have been horribly mislead and deceived because of my own
inconsistencies as one who professes to be a Christian.

And for all these things,
on behalf of myself,
as well as those before
and after me,

I apologize.