Team 5 Back in Action!

Hello, this is Shayla from team 5. It feels so good to be back in Perth and Smiths Falls. We've all had an amazing Christmas with family and friends. Tom spent some time in Vegas, Danica was in B.C., Alyssa went to Rise Up, I spent some time in Toronto, and Rebecca and James just chillaxed at home. We didn't waste one minute of our break.

Life here in Smiths Falls and Perth is getting back in running order. We have our new year kick-off Lifenight this Sunday. It's going to be a game show type of night with a fear factor twist. I can't wait!

So far this week, on Tuesday, our whole team signed up to do an hour in the Adoration chapel every week. It will be on Tuesdays at 3-4 pm. After doing our first hour together, I really felt that this hour with Jesus every week will really help the ministry and our team as a whole. Adoration is just so beautiful.

This past Wednesday we had Merge (our lunch program in the high school). We based it around leadership and being leaders of faith in school. We started with a game called 'Seven Hands'. Basically, this game challenges the teens to work together and to take leadership roles. After this game, Alyssa gave a talk/testimony about being leaders and living out your faith in school.

This Thursday we had our first Edge night. Three words to describe it are Awesome, Energetic, and Loud. I'll just say that it was a huge turnout, with 112 young teens that came out to the Edge night! It was crazy. Our team felt like a retreat team because there were so many young people.

Praying for all the other teams!

God Bless,

Shayla