Kaleo Ministry

This last week went by especially fast. Our days were filled with our first class, Spiritual Formation. The class focused on building up our strength in the faith by teaching us spiritual disciplines. These disciplines included prayerful reading of scripture (lectio divina), times of solitude, meditation, fasting, and scripture memory, among others! The class has not been hard. We spent much of our class time sitting in 'sanctuaries' and praying or meditating or reading. Spiritual Form. is not meant to be a information filled course, however, the goal of the course is giving us ways to examine our own lives, grow spiritually and learn how to be disciplined in our worship.
Most of my Qwanoes oriented ministry has been working in the kitchen and dishpit. I find doing long, repetetive tasks is actually beneficial to my own spiritual growth, and hopefully to the relationships I am forming with the other staff members. While slicing ham or drying dishes I can meditate on what God would want me to be doing, or I can pray for those around me. How much better conversations are when they are started with prayer!
At Cobble Hill Baptist, our gang is getting ready to put on the first Bridge (youth worship night). I dont have much musical talent so all I will be doing is reading scriptures or manning the overhead projector. This week I will be preparing for the bible study that will happen next Wednesday. I am fairly excited about that, as I recently found out that most of the attendees will be the youth in the church. Last night all of the youth of the church, as well as us Kaleo students (Tom, Jesse, Aaron and I) got together to run around the neighborhood, watch movies, eat snacks, and camp out in one of the church portables. This morning we had breakfast at the old church, and then made our way to the new building (still under construction) to have a service there. After the service there was an agape feast but us students had to miss it so that we could shower up and nap a bit before the practice for the Bridge tonight.
In a couple days we leave for the surf trip! Woo Woo