Pray, pray, pray, pray, pray!

September is around the corner and 12hour days have begun. 

Students will soon be flooding the Uvic and Camosun campuses. Our ministries will be launching full force once again.

The harvest is plentiful but the laborers are few. Pray that The Lord of the harvest would send more workers into the fields!

The above picture shows the beginning of my prayer storm. It may help you to know what to pray for. 

If you can't read it, please pray for Sunago at Uvic and Camosun, for Athletes in Action (as we start launching this new ministry), for Red Frogs and Campus Alpha, which we intend to partner with and help serve at, for the various other campus ministries at Uvic: IVCF, P2C, and international friendship group. Please pray for our outreach in the residences on campus, we're praying for over 5 different core groups in different res buildings!

Pray for our new leaders, we will have 16 that we oversee (last year we had 7)!

Pray for orientation day sept 3 and clubs days sept 11 & 12.

Thank you for your support!

Why Is Jesus in a Dance Circle?

I'll Clarify that I’m not being irreverent towards Jesus....I’ll explain later...promise.

I just got super charged with inspiration and jotted down a whole sermon about how Jesus sits with sinners and dances with party rockers. It talks about his compassion, about our need, and how he redeems and sends us to extend his compassion to the lives of others. This will be part of the "Scandalous Jesus" sermon series that I'm writing for this fall semester. Here's a little excerpt.

Mark 2:15-17 - Jesus sits with sinners

And as he reclined at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners were reclining with Jesus and his disciples, for there were many who followed him. And the scribes of the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, “Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?” And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.”

Who knows the song “Party Rock Anthem (Everyday I’m Shuffling)”?

Jesus is in the LMFAO Party Rock Anthem video...

for a couple of seconds. And the clip became almost famous.

Firstly, 

He’s shuffling...why?

And Secondly, 

why did this get so much hype?

So much attention for so little time?

[spoiler alert: because people don’t expect the righteous Son of God to be recreating with rebelious sinners...but he does!]

Obviously it’s not the real Jesus in the video. 

But I think that if Jesus were here today in the flesh, 

he wouldn't shy away from shuffling to the beat 

and partying with LMFAO fans.

It’s because Jesus loves people.

He’s holy yet loves the lowly and unholy,

he’s righteous yet he rolls with the rebels and rejects.

Jesus joins in their interests while staying sinless,

he walks a fine line without crossing the line of sin.

Doxology: Spoken word poetry

This is a twenty first century psalm to bless The Lord. Spoken word poetry is something I've gotten into in the last year and It seems to be a great way to convey truth and express my joy. I hope you are blessed by it.

https://vimeo.com/m/72100536

Rugby for the glory of God

I prayed hard as to whether I should participate in this tournament. It has been 6 years since I've last played full-contact rugby. I felt that it was such a good opportunity to connect with university rugby players by joining a rugby 7s tournament, so I decided to go - despite my fear of being badly injured. 

I prayed hard, played hard, and had a lot of fun connecting with the guys on various levels. We won the tournament for our league and I met some great contacts for our up-and-coming athletes ministry (including a believer who plays for the BC Bears rugby team).

Pray for me as I continue to reach out to Uvic and Camosun rugby players on Friday afternoons. I've had a few students from Sunago join me and I hope to recruit more to be on mission with me here. We need more workers in the fields!