Impartation Nation

Yet another eventful week at the internship! God's really been working on drawing us all together as a unit, as a group, as a family. The theme for this week, and this month for that matter, has been worship and impartation.

During September we went to a lot of worship events and had a number of good worship times at the house. Although all of us in the internship are at different places, it's been great to come together and just have some great worship times.

Early in the week we had Trevor Haug, a worship leader from Victoria, come and impart to us. Trevor used to be the worship leader for the New London Bridge in New Hampshire where my family lives, it was great to see him again and hear from again. After he played some good worship music for us he imparted and prayed over each and every one of us.

On Saturday we went to an event in Abbotsford called Worship Invasion. It's put on once a month and young people from all over come together for a great night of worship. It was a really free atmosphere. It was the first time that we had really come together to just be really silly and open at the same time, to dance like crazy, to go after God and have fun together. It was a great night.

Sunday night we went to see Graham Ord, another worship event. Graham is an awesome worship leader. Their music is so freeing and so open to move however God is moving in the moment. We had a great time and it was a really good worship time. Some of us were sore the next morning from so much dancing in one weekend!

Today we did some really cool exercises during spiritual alignment. Spiritual alignment is when we all come together and spend time aligning ourselves to what God wants us to do with this week or come into alignment with what God wants to do this week. Anthony and Jamie lead it this morning and we did some cool exercises that really brought us together and got us to know one another. We all stood outside and stared into each others' eyes and just asked God to show us how He sees them and where He is taking them and imparting to each other and seeing destiny and life in each other. After the exercise we were really feeling like we could see each other the way God sees them and where God is taking them. I'm looking forward to doing the exercise at the end of the year and really seeing how much everyone has changed.

Continuing with the impartation theme, Monday night was intern impartation night. On these nights two interns impart something to the group, sharing life experiences, something they love, something they're passionate about or something that they feel God wants to bring to the group that He has placed in them. Lucky us, Cameron and I got to go first for the year! Cameron shared some of what he felt like God was teaching him right now, and shared how we're called to live our lives for Jesus as a living sacrifice. My impartation was a little different. I shared how God has always been so faithful to me and my family. It was really something that was close to my heart and it was a little hard at first to be open and vulnerable with the group but everyone had nothing but love and acceptance for me and what I had to say.

I honestly just have to say how grateful I am that I'm here. I'm really loving my time here, even though God brings me through some difficult things and is constantly changing what's inside of me. I love that everyone is so for each other and that a lot of us are at similar places in life. I know that this is where God wants me to be and I feel good about that.

That's all for now, maybe, perhaps, there will be pictures... eventually. Seriously, next semester I'll be so much better with pictures and everything because I'll hopefully have a new camera by then.