December Retreat

Hello faithful blog readers!

This is Matthew Marchand, NET recruiter, blogging to you today. You may have noticed a lack of blog entries since last Sunday. That's because since Monday we (the NET staff and all the NET teams,) have been at December retreat. December retreat is a time when we gather as ministry to take time to enjoy the advent season and take some much deserved rest. Today is the last day and we are all getting ready to return to our individual homes for two weeks.

This year's retreat has been located at Camp Iawah near Kingston. The location and the camp staff have been great. He have been enjoying many snow ball fights and time by the fire. I have to say the best part though is seeing all the teams and hearing all of the stories from the road.

A special shout goes out to team five who are in Wetaskawin AB, they were to far away to make it to Kingston, so they had there own retreat.

Camp Iawah has some awesome hills and we took sometime to go sledding. At one point we took all the sleds and inner tubes and pushed off together. It was a hilarious sight as fifteen people tried to stay together as they raced down the hill. Afterwords we had a snow ball fight and the camps staff joined in, they creamed us but in our defense I think they had been practicing before we had gotten there.

Well that's all for now, the teams are taking a much needed break and I'll be going back to my home town of Halifax over the Advent season, so the post won't be daily but check out our video section on the website for a new video which will be a common update in the new year.

Also I will be blogging from the Rise Up conference which will be taking place in Winnepeg, starting on December 28th and going through to the 1st. For more inforamtion about Rise Up or to register go to the CCO website, www.ccocanada.ca/en/news-events/rise-up. Till then have a merry Christmas and a joyful new year!