Awake My Soul!

Hello again from the gorgeous city of Halifax!

These past few weeks have been going swimmingly! One of the highlights from last weekend was our High School Halloween Party. The team got all dressed up (and so did quite a few of the youth!) and we had a full on Halloween Party complete with a good game of Mafia, a DJ playing some great music, a costume contest and a great game of Sardines to make the night fantastic. Katie and Kyley (see right) went as twins (or rather Charlie Chaplin clones), but the winner of the night was one of the youth who dressed up as a gladiator! This most recent night was a great night themed around Holiness, which sparked some great discussion and ended in prayer time in the chapel. As we get more and more familiar with our youth, we're really seeing the nights make impacts in their lives.

Beyond, our Junior High Night, has been great as well! This past night's theme was "Daily Decision" which focused on prayer. The prayer time was really beautiful because nearly all the youth went to the prayer stations we had set up and they all had the opportunity to write out a prayer that they could use every day to start building up prayer in their lives.

Finally, on our last No-Obligation Day, Erin and I got to have a tour of Halifax from our host dad. He used to work as a tour guide in Halifax, so it was extremely cool to learn all these random facts about the city. The more time we have to go explore the city, the more we learn about it, and the more we are growing to love it! Halifax has such rich history and so many interesting things to see that are little gems spread across the city. We are truly blessed to be in such a wonderful city!

Many Blessings,

Lauren

iNFUSE Team 3's Blogger

P.S. I go through phases where all I listen to is Mumford & Sons, and I am currently in one of those phases. But that's not the point. Their song "Awake My Soul" has a line in it that I think is beautiful. It says, "Where you invest your love, you invest your life." I think that it's very true and very beautiful! Just thought I'd share!

"The end for which we are created invites us to walk a road that is surely sown with a lot of thorns, but it is not sad; through even the sorrow, it is illuminated by joy." - Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati