Hi Everyone!
Alex here taking over the blog for Stephanie today. Man, have I got some exciting things to share!
Our past week here in delightful Drayton Valley has been quite the busy one. Just this weekend we had our supervisors John Paul and Erin pay us a visit. They definitely reenergized our team to continue with our ministry, and we had a lots of fun with them. Our team spilt up into 2 groups and we played the game “Bigger or Better”. We both started with a paperclip and went around town asking our friends and some strangers to trade us for something bigger or better. At the end of the game one team came back with a fireplace and the other came back with a fan. The team is undoubtedly going to put these temperature-regulating devices to good use in the office!
Now, something exciting about our ministry this week is the second Encounter Day we got to put on! This time it was for the grade 10 and 11 students of Holy Trinity Academy, and boy was it an interesting day. After so many months of building relationships with these students at our weekly lunchtime visits, we finally got to share with all of them about our love for Jesus and got them to think about Who Jesus is and who He should be to them. To tell you the truth, at the end of the retreat, I didn’t think we got through to them. I had a hard day and I was ready to write it off as a ‘bad retreat’. It turns out, to our delight, many of the high schoolers were actually really receptive to the talks and their small groups, and when pray time came around, they were actually totally engaged and eager to pray! Here’s what one of the guys wrote us at the end of the day: “I have come closer to God and finally understand why people care and always engage in prayer and God. I am happy to say I have fallen in love with prayer and God.” Woohoo, praise God!! It’s so beautiful to know God been working through us and touching the hearts of Drayton Valley’s youth!
So that was our past week. Pretty exciting I must say, and there’s more excitement up ahead. This weekend we’re combining our junior high and high school youth groups and putting on a ThinkFast. We are all fasting for 25 hours and having an overnight event in the church basement. It should be lots of fun, and I’m sure you’ll hear about that in our next blog. Until then, take care and be blessed!!
Yours in our incredible Christ,
Alex Sibiga & iNFUSE 3
Drayton Valley, AB
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