Hey All

A new haircut, a shave and a week later...
It has been a very relaxing weekend and good in the sense that I got lots of rest for the upcoming weeks here at Kaleo and soon our missions trips. I spent most of my time during the reading break, reading and sleeping =P, none of the reading was school work mind you, since I have finished it all for this next month.
On the other side of the spectrum, it was a kind of depressing week away from the mother ship. Getting back into the real world, I realized how corrupt and messed up it is. Even us who call ourselves Christian are so screwed up out there. It is sad to see the example we are leaving on this world. That kind of got me down but now has energized me a bit to keep myself on my toes for life after Kaleo. I have seen what is out there and know its not going to be easy at all but look forward to the challenge with a new perspective. It is all for His glory and not mine, and I hope by living by that others will be encouraged to do, following in suite of Christs example.
I have to say though, I am glad to be back for the little bit that we are here for till we leave again. It is nice to see the farmiliar faces around camp and back into the grind here. What a awsome chance to really dig in.

Excited for the last stretch
God Bless
Aaron

Hey All

So our reading break has started and been pretty good so far. I spent my day visiting with a good old friend from years back, when I was in highschool... ya that was way back =P We spent the day just wandering around Nanaimo, Ladysmith, Crofton, and time ran out when we got to Shawnagan. It was a good day of catching up on the past years and remembering good times. A good start to a good week.

Mind you I will be doing a bit of reading and work, since it is reading break ;P

God Bless
Aaron

Hey all

This will be a shorty but a gooder.
So this week we had the bridge yet again. This time though was quite interesting. We set up our little campfire style bridge cause people have taken a liking to it, being able to look across at each other and seeing faces. So we go about setting that up, and our circle holds maybe 20 I'd say. Well tonight we get all practiced up and I was playing along on guitar to practice with that since I need all the practice I can get. And the people just start filing in. It was so crazy, I had to start setting up more chairs for all these people who were showing up. The crazy thing is most of them weren't even regulars, our regulars weren't even there! It was amazing we ended up with probably around 35-40 people for the Bridge! The biggest Bridge I've ever seen.

Im Stoked for next week!
God Bless
Aaron

Hey All

It has been not too long ago since my last post, but just feel like I should stick another one up right now. So what new and exciting new have I got for you guys...

Well Kaleo is coming to a end sooner than we think. It really is almost over with about 2 months left and a good 3 weeks of that is going to be away on a missions trip. It is kinda depressing to think that the bonds and friendships I have made over this past year are all going to be spread back across the Continent. Its going to be weird not walking out my bedroom door to see Jake in his Boxers, or Tom hobbling around on his Crutches... or Ben and that Bald head gleaming. The memories of this place will be eternally burnt into my memory forever guys. I look forward to living the fullest in these last days.

As for the future, I am busy busy getting things planned and organized. Yet at the same time, having no actual clue as to where I am going to end up. Right now as it stands I have been officially hired at Camp Imadene again as a lifeguard and unofficially hired at the Duncan pool. Also I have a interview at the Nanaimo pool and have already been unofficially hired at a camp up north called Homewood. So the options are there and never ending in opportunity and varying in different kinds. Homewood wants me as their photographer and part of program full time all year round while Imadene would be the summer as a lifeguard again. The thing is I really don't know what I want to do... I want to go back to school and get some sort of education I can fall back on if I ever would need it. I was thinking of the trades and getting a Electricians apprenticeship. That has to factor in there as well... and the fact that I ow my parents 10 grand for this year of Kaleo and my but is theirs until I pay it off.
Lots of prayer and thought has gone into this and is still going... probably will be until I am finally in it. It would be very helpful if you guys could keep me in your prayer for this, because I really get myself stressed wondering what to do and where God wants me. Help if any is always nice too =)

Back to Kaleo, well we just had a guys and girls night. The girls went off too the Qwanoes guest house while us guys stayed around here and partied it up in the downstairs. We had munchies and some rock band going and a game of settlers of Catan. So much fun! As well We took all the funiture down in the lounge and our bed sheets to make a massive fort. It was like being a kid again. I always loved building forts.
Later we had some more food and a really good guys talk that night. It has been a blessing conversing with all the guys here at Kaleo and getting deeper and deeper with one another.

That has been me lately. Thanks for reading and keep in touch, I love you guys and look forward to what God has instore for my next stage of life...

God Bless
Aaron

Hey All

So it has been another intense weekend here at Kaleo. The Vancouver team that I am a part of went up to Nanaimo to meet Aaron the person we will be working along side in Uculet for a portion of our missions trip. It was a very informative time and really good to get to know Aaron and his wife. He explained to us a little more in detail as to what we will be doing over on that end of the island. For the first week, we will be helping lead a VBS style camp, with music and games and snacks and bible lessons. I for one will be heading up the music portion of the week, leading the music and playing guitar. That for me is a huge undertaking because I am definately not confident in my musical abilities, especially when it comes to a instroment. Definately pray that God leads my fingers to the right chords and my strumming to the right pattern. As well let him take control of my voice as I sing the lyrics for the kids. Right now I am very stressed about this whole thing.
Other than that the weekend was very nice, our team came up with a acrinim for ourselves calling ourselves Team "EPIC" Energetically Praying In Community. That will be our focus for this trip and I really hope that us as a team will be encouraged to do this even now beforehand. If you can keep the preperation for our trip in your prayer and the hearts of those we will be encountering along our travels open that would be great. As well the hearts and minds of ourselves in a focus on God and his will. Right now it is hard with the work load here at Kaleo and all the distractions of life.

God Bless
Aaron Denninger

Week of classes

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We been busy with a week full of the OT (old testament) and relearning all of the bible stories. It seems like I am in Sunday school again, listening to the good old stories of old, except this time things are a little more in depth and intense. It has been really good and I have enjoyed just re-exploring my OT again.
Along with this course has come quite a bit of work including a film that we have to put together and show at the end of class. It is going to be so much fun once we get to watch it. That is going to be in the end of today's class. We have taken a whole bunch of the OT stories and turned it into a office style show. It is going to run around 30 min and should be great. After I am done here in class I will see about trying to put it on the bog for all of you guys to see. (I am the camera man)

God Bless
Aaron

ps picture up top is of Mir mir, if you can't figure that one out =P

Missions Fest

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So this past little while has been the missions fest weekend! All of us Kaleo went over on the Thursday. While most of the crew spent the night in a church, my missions group and I spend the night in the Inner Hope ministries home, so that we could get acquainted by the group there. It was really good, and I was able to get comfortable close with the one guy that they have living in the house at the moment. His name is Cage and has come to Qwanoes before as well, is trying to get into bible college this coming fall.
As for the missions fest part of this whole ordeal, I went to a few cemenars and they were good, but nothing too special. I actually sent most of my time hanging around the booths finding people I knew and catching up on life. I ended up running the Imadene booth for a good portion of the Friday and really quite enjoyed it. On Saturday though, I had basically gone to every booth at least twice and was really getting bored. So I decided to go check out all of the camp booths and see if I could get some info on them that I could possibly bring back with me to my camp. Well long story short, I got talking and a couple of camps have already tried recrouting me for their programs. Now I have a bunch of application forms for camps and for pools to fill out! This is very interesting and we will definately see where God leads me here, whether its to a camp or a pool or somewhere else? I really don't know but the optoins are endless!

God Bless
Aaron