Swimming!

This week we went to the brand new wave pool in Duncan with all the other youth groups from the Cowichan Valley. It was awesome. At first it was a little hard for Jordana, Miranda and I to find the girls from our youth group but we managed to eventually track them down. I am getting to know some of these girls a lot better and I am still really looking forward to seeing how this year progresses. God is really getting me to step outside of my comfort zone when it comes to initiating conversations and introducing myself to complete strangers. It was an enjoyable night. We played in the wave pool, warmed up in the hot tub and sauna, went down the water slides and participated in a scavenger hunt diving for hockey pucks! Its awesome being able to have these times of just having fun and getting to know each other better. Looking forward to next week!

Hunger - Fall Kick Off

This past friday was the kick off of the New Life Youth Group for the fall. We started off the year with a youth worship service called "Hunger" and it was amazing. The service was very high energy and all of the teens were so into it and it was great to see everyone so excited and pumped for the new year. The whole week up to Friday I've had mixed emotions racing through me of fear, excitement, and anxiousness to meet people but with God's help I was able to eliminate most of the fear.
It was great to meet so many new people there and I am super excited to get to know them better as time goes on. This year I will be working with the older group called "Oxygen" consisting of the kids in Grade. 9,10,11, and 12. It's a little intimidating to be working with the "older" kids who are only like 1 or 2 years younger than I am but I feel that God is leading me this direction especially considering I have a passion to work with this age group in the future.
During the service we were introduced as leaders and put into "connect" groups consisting of around 10 to 12 teens in each group. I am leading a group along side my Kaleo peer Miranda. She and I will be connecting with a group of girls each week and checking up on how they are doing and just getting to know them better in general. Our group is very diverse but I am looking forward to how we are all going to impact each other and hopefully become better friends as times goes on.
God is teaching me a lot on what it means to be a leader, especially when it comes to high school aged girls. So far he has guided me and answered my prayers concerning where in the church I should be involved in and I'm confident that he will guide me through this next year when it comes to being a light for these girls and this youth group. My Kaleo buddies that also go to New Life have been such a great support for me so far and we are all there for each other in all of our different ministries that we're involved in.

I have a good feeling that this is going to be an awesome year...