hey team...another excerpt from an email i received from pj today.. enjoy..
WE STARTED A MOVE HERE TO REDEFINE WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO AT LUASANNE. WHAT HEATED AND QUITE FUN...THERE ARE 9 CANADIANS AND WE WERE REALLY VOCAL...AND IS PER USUAL...I STARTED IT BY ASKING SOME QUESTIONS AND NOT TAKING THE TOKEN RESPONSE...WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF US BEING HERE? WHAT IS THE PURPOSE OF GATHERING US TOGETHER? WHAT ARE THE ISSUES WE REALLY NEED TO BE WRESTLING WITH(UNREACHED PEOPLES, SOCIAL JUSTICE, ETC). AND HOW THE SESSIONS HAVE TENDED TO BE INFO MERCIALS FOR LUASANNE THAN ACTUAL TEACHING OR FORUMS...WAS REALLY COOL.
HAVE MADE SOME REALLY GOOD FRIENDS. IT IS FUNNY HOW QUICKLY THE CANADIANS HAVE CONNECTED. 2 FROM BURNABY. ONE OF THE GUYS IS A LEADER AT WILLINGDON IN BURNABY...SO ITS BEEN COOL TO TALK TO HIM.
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
Monday, September 25, 2006
some news from malaysia
jonathan emailed me today..
his email is not working at the hotel so has to stand in long lines to use a computer, so will let u in on some of the email he emailed me.. if u NEED to email him, give it to me and i will see what i can do for you. ;)
"i am overwhelmed by so many things. the conversations are so powerful...it is hard to process life once you have spent time with guys who are living the life out in iraq and egypt and syria or china. and they are nationals...not westerners. it demands so much of my heart and feels like in so many ways the Lord is giving my head a shake...just in terms of values and passion and how i live out who i am.
have spent time with the canadians...it is so cool how we natural group with each other regardless of where in canada we are from...not many other countries do that...in fact only china that i have noticed does that. i am one of a handful of penticostal/charasmatics from the western countries...lots of africans are...but not alot of others are...has led to some very interesting conversations. they all ask why we will not work with them. which of course breaks my heart...because i see the tendency of my life to isolate from those who do not or are not willing to believe as i do.
one of the guys from africa whose ministry is to muslim scholars talked to me about the fact that most of what we call faith is based in fear...we wont engage in relationship with muslims...we wont wrestle with them...or talk to them...and i see that reflected in a lot more than just our relationships with muslims...God help us."
will be good to hear all that is going on there..it may take weeks to download it all! :)
cheers.
trace
his email is not working at the hotel so has to stand in long lines to use a computer, so will let u in on some of the email he emailed me.. if u NEED to email him, give it to me and i will see what i can do for you. ;)
"i am overwhelmed by so many things. the conversations are so powerful...it is hard to process life once you have spent time with guys who are living the life out in iraq and egypt and syria or china. and they are nationals...not westerners. it demands so much of my heart and feels like in so many ways the Lord is giving my head a shake...just in terms of values and passion and how i live out who i am.
have spent time with the canadians...it is so cool how we natural group with each other regardless of where in canada we are from...not many other countries do that...in fact only china that i have noticed does that. i am one of a handful of penticostal/charasmatics from the western countries...lots of africans are...but not alot of others are...has led to some very interesting conversations. they all ask why we will not work with them. which of course breaks my heart...because i see the tendency of my life to isolate from those who do not or are not willing to believe as i do.
one of the guys from africa whose ministry is to muslim scholars talked to me about the fact that most of what we call faith is based in fear...we wont engage in relationship with muslims...we wont wrestle with them...or talk to them...and i see that reflected in a lot more than just our relationships with muslims...God help us."
will be good to hear all that is going on there..it may take weeks to download it all! :)
cheers.
trace
Friday, September 08, 2006
where am i?
hi team..family..community..
where am i?
well...currently i'm sittin in front of this pc at 11.38 pm, wondering if i should really blog this or not.. and i figured, why not?
so here i go.
this week has been extremely hard for me. some things i'm not at liberty to say, some things i am. anyhow, the amount of change going on inside me and around me is far more than i can bear. i have literally been in tears for the better part of this week.. tomoro am scares me to death. knowin that the entire team is now here scares me to death. knowing that my little world is not going to be the same scares me to death. knowing that god has a part for ME in this all scares me to death.
and my fricken name means couragous.. NICE.
i usually dont know how to articulate what i'm feeling in person, but i will try. please be patient and gracious with me as i try to be with you. i'm going deep, i'm diving in, in over my head i'm gonna be lost in the flood, in over my head i'm gonna go, the river's deep, the river's wide, the river's water is alive, so sink or swim...i'm divin in.
thanks steven.. your song is what i am holding onto this season.
night.
ps - erin and i are off to timmy's, at this hour...hehehe.. ;) word up hommies.
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
crisis
i realize (i think i actually knew this before) that whenever crisis or confusion hits in my life my natural tendancy is to isolate and keep to myself... and from there i end up letting my mind take over and leave no room for faith...i'm thinking this is gonna have to change.
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