Canada Day 4

Where are days 1, 2, and 3 you might wonder? Well I didn't post any updates on those days so I'll probably include some stuff from those days here haha :)

our flights we very punctual it seemed  in regards to taking off and landing on time in relation to the time listed for them so that was nice. We didn't have any trouble in security or customs so that was a blessing. I did not eat anything other than the snacks I had brought with me and the snack on the first plane until dinner that night. When we  arrived in Edmonton from Toronto we met up with Pastor Jonathan from JPBC, the church we are volunteering at to help with their ministry and the camp that they go to and which the Pastor's wife is a director at I believe or something like that. He took us and a couple of our bags out to his van and from the airport we drove to the house of a family from the church. We ate dinner with the pastor and his family and this other family. That family was the one whom the girls on our trip Nikki and Khayla are staying with and are very nice.

Today (Monday, June 18th) we had orientation and had a devotional and shared our testimonies and learned some more about Canada and Canadians. Our devotion and testimony sharing time was amazing you could tell God was there speaking and moving and even today just opening up my eyes and teaching me things about discipleship and evangelism. I really believe that God has me in a time of refining in which is is removing things and teaching me things and really solidifying what I believe and how I live for Him. It is still such a work in progress though or rather I am a work in progress. I'm just really excited about what God is going to do this summer in each of our lives. It was so awesome to hear how God specifically led each one of us who have come here to Edmonton this summer and that we were really sure why God was leading us to Edmonton, but that it was just the the one that stuck out to us. I think that is awesome because it just shows that God wants each of us here and we are each here for His purposes and His work (Ephesians 2:10).

Prayer Requests: Please pray for protection spiritually speaking because I think that we will need it to fight against satan as he comes against what God is doing in and through us here this summer and obviously we cannot do that on our own, but Christ lives in each of us and in all who are believers and is stronger than satan. So In praying please pray for God to be glorified in us and that we would be humble servants of His and that we would be faithful in prayer for God's strength in us. Coming here I felt so weak and not ready or capable and God reminded me of the truth about when we are weak Christ is strong in us found in 2 Corinthians; "⁷ Because of the surpassing greatness of the revelations, for this reason, to keep me from exalting myself, there was given me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to ^[b]torment me—to keep me from exalting myself! ⁸ Concerning this I implored the Lord three times that it might leave me. ⁹ And He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.” Most gladly, therefore, I will rather boast ^[c]about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may dwell in me.¹⁰ Therefore I am well content with weaknesses, with ^[d]insults, with distresses, with persecutions, with difficulties, for Christ’s sake; for when I am weak, then I am strong." Pray for myself and my team mates Ben, Khayla, and Nikki that God would bring us all closer and lead and guide us as He desires and use us for His glory as He has planned and that we would have unity. Pray for JPBC, the church, that their would be unity there and that God would work in and among the church members who have graciously welcomed us into their church for the summer and are opening their homes to us. Pray that God would use us to serve them and be an encouragement to them (all members youth, children and adults). Pray that we would be sensitive to God's leading and guiding and that God would make it very clear to us what He wants us to be doing for Him at any given moment. 

Thank you all and love you,

In Christ,

Miles D.