Spiritual Formation

Hello Again Everyone! I’m thrilled to get to tell you all about what is happening this week in the Kaléo Program.

We started our week with some guests from Trinity Western University coming for the weekend. It was a lot of fun to get to hang out with and serve our peers for the weekend. The students were able to sit in on a couple of leadership talks and spend some time with them as they did activities. This also allowed the students their first taste of camp life as they worked at the challenge course, waterfront and various other areas through camp.

We were extremely grateful to our students to demonstrate the same servant hearts they have been demonstrating at the local churches in the area. We’re very excited to see how they will grow through these ministry opportunities.

Monday provided us another opportunity to experience growth as our first class, Spiritual Formation, began. After a week of cramming memory verses, the students were finally able to get their first taste of academic life in the Kaléo program. Revd. Dr. Cal McFarlane joined us from Briercrest to teach the class.

Spiritual Formation is an amazing way to start the school year because of it’s focus on our personal spiritual growth and studying the disciplines that take us there. It’s an incredible class that takes us on a journey throughout the course of a week. We are excited to hear the students’ stories after they partake in this class and encourage you to ask questions of the students as well!

One highlight of the week came when Cal brought out a potter’s wheel and taught the class an important object lesson based out of Isaiah 64 – “We are the clay, you are the potter.” Cal highlighted a number of lessons in this analogy pertaining to our spiritual formation. Lessons on how to become good clay and becoming shapeable were just a few highlights. Overall, the students really seemed to have a good time and learn a lot from this demonstration. It was one that will, no doubt, not be forgotten at the end of the year!

Special thanks goes to Levi for these amazing pictures, we are so blessed to have such talented photographers in our program this year!

Today the class sets out on another journey (of sorts) as they are spending the evening in solitude and fasting. Right now we are sure that God is doing some incredible communicating with the students as they seek Him through these disciplines. Tomorrow we will come back together at 8 am for a time of communion, worship and fellowship to finish this time. We can’t wait to hear what has been learned!

We are only 5 days away from our SALTS adventure where we sail around the South of Vancouver Island, I’m excited to get to bring you the report from that next week!

Once again, thanks so much for reading this! Please continue to be in prayer for our students as we can really see the Lord taking them on an incredible journey already this year!

Derek