Service Days and Cooking for Ourselves

 

Urban Plunge

 

Our Home For Urban Plunge

 

Hannah, Sully, and Julia

 

urban plunge reflection

 

 

 

 

The Urban Plunge in Winnipeg impacted my life forever. One of the hardest things for me was saying "yes" to God when he prompted me to give my bible to a "complete stranger". It seemed so hard at first, giving away that prized posession, but when God gave me the strength to just do it I suddenly knew she wasn't just a "stranger". This woman was one of God's beautiful creations, and she, more than anything, needed that book, at that moment, more than I did. The desperation of the street people and the immense love that God has for them hit me with a force that I can hardly explain! His love is so great and we who know just how incredibly great that love can be, hold within us a message so redeeming it transforms and re-creates lives. The utter rawness of hummanity's plight without Christ cut to the very depths of my soul. Poverty was so real, unavoidable, undeniable, and yet in today's culture there is such an unwillingess to admit its existance. That is what hit me the most: just the fact that poverty, it is SO there, SO present, when it shouldnt be.

-By Kristi Roberts

 

 

 

 

 

 

Canoe Trip: All In The Same Boat!

Just Minutes before we set out on the water the sun came out to warm us up.


After only knowing each other for a few days, we were split into two groups and pushed into Lake of the Woods, for a canoe trip. First thing in the morning the weather was discouraging as it was rainy, cloudy, cold, and windy. But by the afternoon, as we were about to leave the sun started to shine. It felt great and got me more excited and encouraged.
I started out as midship (not paddling, in the middle) and was feeling quite heavy, trying to encourage others through the wind and the waves. I noticed that throughout our whole trip we were encouraging and helping, as best as we could.
I look back at it now and realize what an amazing and unique experience it was. Our leaders/guides were awesome. We saw some neat wildlife and I learnt a lot.
By Hannah Weber
 
 
 
 
After registration and hurried good byes to loved ones, 31 complete strangers stepped through van doors and into a new world of excitement, adventure and enthralling relationships. Our first initiation into this new chapter of our lives would prove to be a gruelling experience not only physically, but emotionally and spiritually as well. Split into two groups we both faced incredible, and at times what seemed to be insurmountable obstacles that could only be overcome through faith, friendship, and a little help from the HMS Pioneer III (The boat that came to rescue us!).
Through these trials and tribulations the two groups became united not only as individual groups but rather as one body together with Christ, separated by no man under God’s supreme reign.
By Dave Young & Reuben Loeppky
 

Our site started off with a canoe trip like no other. The weather was terrible, the waves were insane, but the memories and bonding that we had with our new ‘family’ made it so worth it.
We focused on finding beauty and then brokenness in the wilderness. Never did I expect what God was ready to reveal to me. Beauty was initially the most amazing star-filled sky, but then I saw how God can reveal beauty through the broken. I not only saw beauty in God’s creation but also in the people surrounding me. Constant encouragement got us across, what seemed like, a raging sea. It was awesome.
Brokenness could have been our spirits due to the rain, the cold, a wind like no other, and no clean or dry clothes. However, God used those circumstances to not only bring us incredibly close but to reveal a different form of beauty to me.
As terrified as I was going into this trip, I wouldn’t trade our experience for any other. I came back feeling like I had just caught a small glimpse of God’s beauty and that alone left me in awe.
By Kim Ball
 

We finished our trip on P3, the faithful camp boat. Not quite the ending we had imagined for our canoe trip, but we made it safe and sound.

Day One

The First Group Shot


The Vans just itching to go...

On Monday of this week Site 3 met for the first time. Only a few hours later we found ourselves in the vans headed off to begin the adventure with a canoe trip.

Welcome!

On Behalf of the Outtatown staff, we would like to extend a huge "WELCOME!" to all students who will be joining us on Monday, September 10, 2007.

Meet the leaders:
Top (L-R)
Steve Klassen from Chilliwack, BC and Tessa Callan from Winnipeg, MB
Bottom (L-R) Dana Honderich from New Hamburg, ON and Johnny Fukumoto from Etobicoke, ON
We are all looking forward to meeting and getting to know you as we all explore what God has in store for us all this year!