Welcome!

You may wonder at the title of my blog. And originally it was a title that was very insignificant (see first post). I have often had the desire to change my blog's name or even to start a new one as the address is also soo do or pseudo. But this last year at bible school I had an assignment on generosity based on two chapters from the Bible (Leviticus 25 and Deuteronomy 15) that changed my perspective a bit. In Deuteronomy God tells the Israelites "...you shall not harden your hearts, nor close your hand from your brother, but you shall freely open your hand to him and generously lend him sufficient for his need, whatever he lacks." (Deut. 15:7-8).
Soo do means open hand in Korean, or at least that is what I have been told in my karate classes, and after remembering this and working through my generosity assignment, I wondered to myself: Am I a soo do (open hand) christian or a psuedo christian? This question continues to challenge me. I often keep my time, money, and encouragements to myself and don't give generously. But God calls us to give all we have, for our security lies not in our weatlh, or health, or time, or place, but ultimately in Him.
This blog is for me to share my thoughts and my days, things I love and places I go, my struggles and His victories, and ultimately His work in and through me will hopefully make me a soo do christian.

Saturday, October 27, 2007

Teachers so far...

these are some of the teachers i've had so far this year.

Arnold Fruchtenbaum: taught 'theLife of Christ from a Jewish Perspective' and ended each class with several Rabbi jokes. it was a really eye opening class

Bruce Cambell: Taught 'Table of Contents' he had a huge bible timeline on butcher paper that he travels around the world with.
we also had a delightful women named Sue Rhea who taught Colossians and Steve thiesen from Capernwray Quebec who taught 2 Corinthians. we've also gone through 1 Corinthians and Acts.

Team Initiatives Course

These are some pictures of my team and i on the Team Initiatives Course this is The Wall, we had to get al 14 members of our team from the ground over the wall as quickly as possible. it's about 12 feet high. we did it in 1 minute and 27 seconds!
at this station we raced another team ontwo planks of wood with ropes tied to them and the whole team had their left foot on one and their rigth on thother and we had to move together kind of like a three legged race.

Sunday, October 07, 2007

hello!

hello Everyone. here i am in beautiful British Columbia! Unfortunately i don't have my camera cord with me so you will have to wait for pictures. But i am thoroughly enjoying myself here and i am learning so much. Last week i went on my "venture"( the bungy jumping was all full so i went caving instead). it was really quite amazing. we got to experience 100% darkness and it is strange because your eyes will try to adjust but they will never be able to. and we did a lot of climbing, we climbed through crevices and holes and up a trickling waterfall and slide sideways through a crack in the rock that was less than a foot and a half wide. way cool! any way as soon as i get my camera hook up i'll post all my pics.I love all of you and i am praying for you.