Wagons Ho!

It's been hitting me recently how little time I have left. You'd think I'd have clued in by now, seeing how by this time next week, my flight will just be arriving home in Abbotsford. We are officially done classes, we had this morning off to sleep in and to start cleaning up our rooms. Tomorrow we have the morning off to pack up as well. We are leaving for New York tomorrow early afternoon so pretty much I'm packing a bag to take to New York, then I'll pack the rest to be ready for when I come home to go again. I've also been cleaning up all my stuff, and just making my room generally even more amazing.

Not only that, adding to the reality of the shortness of this semester is the number of student impartations we had the last week or so. We had a lot and it was really awesome to hear everybody's heart on all this different things. It was cool had God spoke to everyone so differently in what to share. It was always so perfect, what everyone had to say was so unique and refreshing.

I've really felt so humble in the last few days with all these people sharing. Some people have these amazing passions for different things, others have had some really hard times that God has brought them through. But in all of those, I just feel so honoured to live with and grow with these people. Makes me so much more grateful that I am where God has placed me, it reminds me of what Ali said "How is it, that all these amazing people are all here at this time." Sometimes we take God's order for granted, but every move is orchestrated carefully and perfectly. There's no way we could improve on God's order, as much as we might know that in our head, sometimes in a given moment, it's almost overwhelming to think that everything you've ever done in your life has led up to this particular moment. Shouldn't that make every moment all the more significant? If we start to truly realize how divinely our steps are ordered, we should be thanking God for every step and moment because He has us there for whatever reason we don't always know.

In this last week I'm really trying to suck everything up, trying to get all that I can before I go. I'll be home for a month and a half, and then I'm coming back for another six months. I'm really looking forward to going home and visiting people, but I'm pretty sure I'll be looking forward to coming back and seeing everybody as well. Especially after sleeping in my own room by myself for 6 weeks, who knows, I could get lonely after 3 months of sharing a room with 3 other guys. (But I don't think it's likely...lol)

This is likely the last time I'll write for a bit, I don't know if I'll have any internet access when I'm gone, so we'll see. But I'll do my best to update you at least after I get back, I'll be sleepy eyed and maybe not even coherent, but hey, it's an update at least right?

I thought I'd throw in some pictures of a few projects I was given to work on recently. One is a newspaper article poster I made for Pastor Phil from the Gathering in Salem. The other is a graphic for our Salem Testimonies which we'll be bringing home.

Please keep us all in your prayers as we are off on our last trip of the semester. I put a basic schedule below so you can track us with your prayers.

Thurs, Nov. 16
Depart from girls house, arrive in Hopkinton MA
Minister at church in the evening.

Fri, Nov. 17
Get to New York 2 pm.
Training session for conference 5-6 pm

Sat & Sun, Nov. 18-19
Very long days expected at conference

Mon, Nov. 20
Sleep in.
Little bit of sight seeing
Minister at Lighthouse Church in New York
Leave for home at 11 pm

Tues, Nov. 21
Get home early early morning
Sleep.
Pack-up
Commencement Dinner

Wedns, Nov 22
I'm getting up to leave by around 5-5:30 am get back to Abbotsford around 8 pm.


Oh and before I go, here's a link to all my movies on YouTube It may be hard to appreciate them fully, not having been here and knowing all the people, but feel free to check 'em out anyways.

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=gliderguy15