Have been so blessed this past week. After a weekend spent with the many different Interns from all over the world and celebrating Canada day we {as in like 60 people} headed up to Barrie for a three day training retreat. The group was made up of 16 Interns, Programs Directors, Supervisors, and many Street Leaders.
Street leaders are young adults who have grown up in the communities that Urban Promise and reaching today and have gone through Urban Promise programs through out their lives. Once they have out grown the program Urban Promise actually hires them back in a paid position to be able to assist the interns, supervisors and directors in running the programs.
The most amazing part about this is that the kids who come to the programs really look up to the street leaders since they come from the same communities they do, they can relate to them.
So this week we had a three day training retreat in Barrie to prepare everyone in the final steps for Camp which starts on Monday morning.
It was a blessed time of becoming United, our theme this week was to be One Body and our leaders achieved this through lectures, games and challenges where we had to work together as One Body!
Encouraging one another was another major part of this week and i have been so blessed by hearing words of encourgament flowing from peoples lips from so many different culture and countrys building eachother up in the Lord.
We also spent an afternoon completely challenges, one camp competing against the others right up untill the end when we had to unite and work together to complete the last one.
It was alittle difficult as well since we where living in a church for three and a half days with 60 other people, it almost felt like camp the way things worked. I have to say its the first time i've ever had to go a community centre to have my daily shower along with 60 other people. God really provided amazing people to help feed us all and places like the community centre to let us come in every day and shower. One of the other highlights was our little training crew. There are alot of Interns who enjoy to run which is awesome so in our half hour of free time a dozen of us would go for a run and train together. The one night we got stuck in a down pour of rain but then enjoyed getting soaked and jumping in the huge puddles.
After training finished I was able to go home for a day which I am really enjoying to see my family and stuff, whats really cool though is that i was able to bring home with me the four girls that I live with. It is really neat to be able to show them where i am from and for them to meet my family. I am really looking forward to going back home tonight though....Toronto feels like home. Definently enjoying everything about this week so far and I am so excited to start camp on Monday for the next six weeks!! :)
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