So I'm not completely sure what PEI looks like but I hope it's as blue and green as this background (or what I desired it to be). :D
THE DEETS!
So a few of us Jesus Youth are going to PEI for the Thr!ve Conference! Woohooo!And while we're there and on our way, we thought it would be really cool to blog and let you know all at home know what's going on too! (Truth: I love when people blog so I thought this would be super cool and beautiful to look back, and I am going to force my friends into blogging while we're there, so ha. They actually don't even know this exists yet.) Pray for us!
By the by, we are:
Mike
Hazel
Mimi
Genny
Max
Jose
and Ajith uncle our wonderful kind and precious driver. (Unless he lets us take turns which would be SO cool).
Details of Thr!ve: http://www.dioceseofcharlottetown.com/diocesan_ministries/thrive_2011.html
What we're doing? Basically just joining the crowd, interceding, loving, being all that we can be. We're praying to grow closer as a team as well. One really cool thing we plan to do is pray for cities as we pass them, and find extraordinary and ordinary ways to be missionary. In so many ways this is a mission trip, let's pray for what He's got in store for us- even while we're on the road!
It's beautiful to see how excited we all are- I'll let them tell you themselves- but everyone's so on fire to go. I think, in some way or the other, God's shown each of us over and over His faithfulness, and we can't help have a SURE HOPE (almost a paradox) that He will do something beautiful here.
Your prayers are so important- for us and those we will meet. And I trust you know so too. :) So thanks!
Ok finished. THE JOY OF EASTER AND THE RISEN CHRIST TO ERRBODYYY!
God bless!
THE DEETS!
So a few of us Jesus Youth are going to PEI for the Thr!ve Conference! Woohooo!And while we're there and on our way, we thought it would be really cool to blog and let you know all at home know what's going on too! (Truth: I love when people blog so I thought this would be super cool and beautiful to look back, and I am going to force my friends into blogging while we're there, so ha. They actually don't even know this exists yet.) Pray for us!
By the by, we are:
Mike
Hazel
Mimi
Genny
Max
Jose
and Ajith uncle our wonderful kind and precious driver. (Unless he lets us take turns which would be SO cool).
Details of Thr!ve: http://www.dioceseofcharlottetown.com/diocesan_ministries/thrive_2011.html
What we're doing? Basically just joining the crowd, interceding, loving, being all that we can be. We're praying to grow closer as a team as well. One really cool thing we plan to do is pray for cities as we pass them, and find extraordinary and ordinary ways to be missionary. In so many ways this is a mission trip, let's pray for what He's got in store for us- even while we're on the road!
It's beautiful to see how excited we all are- I'll let them tell you themselves- but everyone's so on fire to go. I think, in some way or the other, God's shown each of us over and over His faithfulness, and we can't help have a SURE HOPE (almost a paradox) that He will do something beautiful here.
Your prayers are so important- for us and those we will meet. And I trust you know so too. :) So thanks!
Ok finished. THE JOY OF EASTER AND THE RISEN CHRIST TO ERRBODYYY!
God bless!
This sounds amazing!
ReplyDeleteHave loads of fun! My prayers are with you!
wooohooo!!!
ReplyDeleteI'm praying for all you wonderful people!
I thought these words of Pope Benedict XVI might come in handy! :)
Conversion. The Greek word for converting means: to rethink-to question one's own and common way of living; to allow God to enter into the criteria of one's life; to not merely judge according to the current opinions. Thereby, to convert means: not to live as all the others live, not do what all do, not feel justified in dubious, ambiguous, evil actions just because others do the same; begin to see one's life through the eyes of God; thereby looking for the good, even if uncomfortable; not aiming at the judgment of the majority, of men, but on the justice of God-in other words: to look for a new style of life, a new life.
All of this does not imply moralism; reducing Christianity to morality loses sight of the essence of Christ's message: the gift of a new friendship, the gift of communion with Jesus and thereby with God. Whoever converts to Christ does not mean to create his own moral autarchy for himself, does not intend to build his own goodness through his own strengths.
"Conversion" (metanoia) means exactly the opposite: to come out of self-sufficiency to discover and accept our indigence-the indigence of others and of the Other, his forgiveness, his friendship. Unconverted life is self-justification (I am not worse than the others); conversion is humility in entrusting oneself to the love of the Other, a love that becomes the measure and the criteria of my own life. - Pope Benedict XVI
Praise the Lord! It's all about the Eucharist!
ReplyDeletePEI is even bluer and greener than the background, right? See most of you in a couple of weeks.
ReplyDeleteP.S., good choice MGM