Thursday, December 7, 2017


This week the students have been in class taking Foundations in Church Ministry taught by David Lee, DMin. During this class week the students have spent a decent amount of time discussing issues facing the Church today as well as what it means for them to live out their God given gifting to equip and build up the body of Christ. 


David's focus on the students learning about their own gifting and what that means has been an encouraging experience for all. As it is now down to the last week in the semester the students are also working on wrapping everything up from other classes (as well as gifts as we are fully celebrating the Christmas season!). 


Up Next and How You Can Be Praying

Pray for our students as they get ready to go home. Pray for safe travels and that they would take in their time at home. As many of you reading this will actually be seeing our students as they return home, take a moment to encourage them in all the ways you can see that they have grown.

Saturday, December 2, 2017

(Photo by Kaitlyn Willems)

This past week was a transition week for the students from Introduction to Old Testament with Don Taylor, DTh, to getting ready for Foundations in Church Ministry with David Lee, DMin. On the Thursday however the students took a well deserved study break and we all got ready for Christmas! 

(Photo by Kaitlyn Willems) 

(Photo by Mark Jobst)

In the morning we drink hot chocolate, made ornaments for our tree and watched How The Grinch Stole Christmas! Then after lunch it was off to buy a tree. 

 (Photo by Julia Hood)

(Photo by Mark Jobst)

 (Photo by Julia Hood)

To pick our tree we had four groups create presentations on why we should take home their tree of their choice. We saw some pretty great presentations which included a play, a song, powerpoint, and a rap! After we got our tree we headed back to camp to paint our decorations that we had made earlier in the day. Following this we headed into lady smith for their 30th annual Lady Smith Light Up. This included a parade with lights, the lighting of all the lights around the shops in town as well as their large tree at the town square and was wrapped up by some spectacular fireworks. 

(Photo by Kaitlyn Willems) 

(Photo by Kaitlyn Willems) 

Up Next and How You Can Be Praying 

Up next for our students is their Foundations in Church Ministry call with David Lee, after that have just a few days to wrap up the last of their assignments and then its off to home for Christmas! Pray for our students that they would have energy to work hard these last two weeks and to be disciplined to finish well.