Christmas in July!

I apologize to anyone who HAS been trying to follow this blog for my delinquency in posting. I've been very lazy and it has affected a lot of things that I SHOULD have been doing but haven't.

So this past Saturday we had a huge Christmas in July party. It was quite amazing, we had a turkey dinner (complete with smashed potatoes, stuffing, brussel sprouts, pumpkin pie, etc), as well as reading the Christmas story from the Gospel of Luke and having a gift exchange (which was quite fun... getting presents in the middle of July was definately awesome).

A big part of the night was trying to be intentional in talking with people about Christmas. Why was it even called that? What's so important about Christmas anyway? We haven't had the time to properly sit down and debrief the night, so I dunno what happened with other people, but on my end, I know that it was really a good night to remember just why Christ DID come to earth and the eternal gift of salvation that he offers to all if they will only accept it.

I learned a lot about planning events through this as well. Officially speaking, I was the coordinator for the night, but after delegation of tasks and what not, I had very little stressing me out (thanks to the competency of everyone that took jobs and thanks to the fact that no problems arose through the night). I wish that all events that I was in charge of would be like this.

I'm stoked indeed to head back to campus. Last year was a really bad year for me in terms of motivation to do school work and ministry things, but this summer has really served to put me back on track in terms of my life. Although a lot of goals I set about setting certain good habits have not actually been met, this summer has been great in laying a foundation for that to begin, just by slowly breaking down the old habits, and readjusting my attitude in terms of my walk with Christ.

Project is almost over, and so when I have a little bit more time to sit and think about things, I'll probably post a summation of what happened, what I learned, and what I expect to do with this life experience. Because I refuse to allow it to be shelved and become just another memory.. but I will allow it to change how I do things from now on.

Moving Day

This past Saturday was moving day here in montreal. Apparently the large majority of leases turnover on July 1st, and people do the crazy thing and just move 5 houses down the street. So as an outreach, we decided to go out and help people move.

Jessica Li, quite the artsy student here, made up some crazy T-Shirts for us to wear (i'd post pics if I had a camera...) that had the Campus for Christ logo on the front and said Moving Crew on the back.

It was strange, the majority of people that we met were pretty much set, but there were a few people that we helped out that were convinced we were sent by God/karma (funny coincidence eh, seeing as we're here with Campus for CHRIST) because they were pretty down trying to figure out how they were going to move their stuff. The big part of today was not about verbal sharing but about service and showing them that we wanted to demonstrate God's love for people in a more tangible way. I really enjoyed doing this.

It's interesting, being the evangelism coordinator here in Montreal, because right now, we're just trying to plan out the rest of the summer, and both Hannah (the other evangelism coordinator) and I are so busy most of the time, we haven't had time to really sit down. So things are starting to look last minute (which I was really hoping to fix this summer.)

I guess prayer request would be that I would just prioritize my time and really sit down and do a good job with this. Because after all, God wants the best from us that we can give, and my best is much more than what I have been doing thus far.