I'm terribly sorry that I haven't written anything on this blog lately, but Capernwray life has gotten really busy! Things are really starting to pick up now… with study project preparations, lecturers, and just having personal devotions. It's really starting to feel like reading God's Word is all I ever do! Which isn't a bad thing at all. I could get used to this kind of lifestyle (:
I just can't get over this dream I had last night. It's so weird, yet so cool. I dreamed that I went to heaven. I was waiting in a line of lots of people to go into this building to get judged by God. When I got into this building, there was God and two doors. One door said "heaven" above it, and the other said "hell" above it. I went up to God and He read out to me EVERYTHING I'd done in my life, good and bad, excellent and evil. Then He told me I was good to go and pointed me towards the "heaven" door. Now the rest of the dream is kind of a blur. Basically, heaven was just like earth in my dream, except better. But it essentially looked the same. And I remember my good friend Elijah was in heaven with me. But there's this one part that totally stuck out to me: I was hanging out with Jesus, looking down at the people on earth, and you know, watching them. Then someone on earth said, "oh my word" (in replacement for 'oh my god' or likewise), and Jesus said, "there they go. Talking about my Bible again." Now, the reason why this stuck out to me so much was because I often say that as a replacement for 'oh my god' or 'oh my gosh' or likewise. It's like God was convicting me in my sleep! Anyway, something to ponder for me. It was really strange, but kinda cool at the same time.
What's been going on at Capernwray, you might be wondering? Well, since I last wrote, we've had three full weeks. The week of October 24-29, we had Bill Hall come teach us on Joshua. That was pretty great. He has lots of interesting stories and whatnot about how God's provided in his life. I have to admit though that he wasn't my favourite speaker. Then the week of October 31-November 4, we had Lawrence Jensen from Capernwray Harbour come teach us on the first half of Acts (just Peter & the other apostle's ministry). We'll be getting the second half (Paul's ministry stuff) later in the year. Lawrence has been my favourite speaker so far this year. He did a whole class on baptism and what it really is and what it really means to be saved. It was really cool and reassuring. This past week, our very own Steve Thiessen started teaching us on 1 Corinthians, which was also super cool. Steve is definitely one of my favourites, and it's not because I'm biased, he's just that good (:
Last weekend, November 4-6, Capernwray shipped us out to volunteer at Missions Globales! Now, I wasn't very excited about this because my French is incredibly lacking! I was at the Info Center all evening on the Friday. Thankfully, I had another woman with me who spoke French and a little bit of English. Smart, because I speak English and a little bit of French. We complimented each other! She took care of the French people and I took care of the English people. And seeing as it's in Montreal, I sat there most of the time with simply a smile on my face!
There were lots of interesting kiosks and stuff set up there. There were actually 3 kiosks from Manitoban organizations. I only recognized one of them though… Canadian Mennonite University! They were advertising their Outtatown program. One of my friends is actually doing that program this year. So I thought that was kinda cool. The lady at that kiosk was actually the same lady that came to the SR on Options Day to talk about CMU. Funny to see a familiar face in a foreign province!
I'm quite looking forward to this week in classes because Wayne Lee is coming to teach! My brother says that he's the best. And everyone else I've talked to always talks super positive about him. Many lecturers just stay in their room the whole week, except for some meals and while teaching, but apparently Wayne Lee's the kinda guy that will pick up a tea towel and dry dishes with you! I think that's pretty great!
I suppose that's it for this blog entry. It's less than a month until I come home for Christmas. I'm really looking forward to being in Manitoba with everyone I love so dearly again! For those wondering, I'll be flying home on December 8th. And for those EFCers: I will be in church that Sunday, the 11th!
Love,
Janessa (:
