Hey people,
It’s
Mike from encounter two! Hope you are all doing well! The past few months for
encounter two have been awesome! We have had the opportunity to minister to people of
all ages in the Thunder Bay, Kamloops, Nelson, Calgary, St.Paul, Edmonton, and
Winnipeg diocese. We’ve done everything from encounter days to family retreats,
weekend retreats, and youth rallies!
It’s
been so cool spending time as a team and getting to know each other! As a
travelling team we end up spending A LOT of time together. Since most of the
time it’s in the van, we have noticed that that much time in close quarters has
resulted in us rubbing off on each other! Too many of us Canadians are saying
“All Ya’ll”, which Chase is pretty proud of. But all is well, he has started to
call toques “toques” and not “beanies”, and we’re all pretty proud of him for
that.
All
in all it’s been a blast spending so much time together, one of the coolest
things we’ve done together was skidooing, when we were in Wetaskawin. It was
awesome being outside in the snow, just hanging out as a team! A few of us also
had the chance to play the beautiful game of hockey with our host family in
Winnipeg, which was awesome because we’ve all been dying to play hockey again.
Okay, maybe it was just me, but none-the-less we all had a great time!
Like
I said before, we’ve had the opportunity to put on some overnight retreats, in
Trail B.C., Edmonton Alberta, and at Our Lady of Victory Camp in Alberta. It’s
been such a treat to be able to spend more than a few hours with the youth, and
see how God has been able to work through these events. At the end of one of
our overnight events, we were told by the youth that a lot of them originally
were only there to miss a couple days of school, but by the end they shared
that they really grew closer to God at the event. God is so good!
We
are currently on our way back to Ottawa for Christmas break, we are looking
forward to having a couple weeks to prepare for the next half of our year! We
all hope you have an awesome Advent and a blessed Christmas!
God Bless,
Michael McCallum
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