Graduated
I seemed to have failed to inform everyone that I have officially graduated from Prairie Bible college with a certificate in Inter-cultural and Leadership studies.
A prayer I wrote in Spanish: Mi oración para todos los Cristianos!
Nuestro Padre Celestial,
de quien recibe nombre toda familia en el cielo y en la tierra en amor.
Tu que nos ha dicho ``Ama al Senior tu Dios con todo tu corazón, con todo tu ser y con todo tu mente`` y también ``Ama a tu prójimo como a ti mismo.``
Y tu que nos ha encomendado ``vayan y hagan discípulos de todos las naciones, bautizándolos en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo.``
Por favor Padre nos ayuda a recordar estas cosas que nos han dicho. Nos ayuda a amor a todos en cada momento! Y nos ayuda a ser los ejemplos que nos ha encomendado! Y le pido que nos ayuda a difundir la Buena Noticia de tu interminable Amor.
En tu Nombre precioso,
AMEN!
rough draft in English, quick translation:
Our Heavenly Father,
who receives every family in heaven and on earth in love.
You told us to `` Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind `` and `` Love your neighbor as yourself. ``
And you instructed us to " go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. ``
Please Father help us remember these things you have told us. Please help us to love everyone at every given moment! And help us to be the examples you have commanded us to be! And I ask you to help us spread the Good News of your never ending Love.
In your precious name
AMEN!
de quien recibe nombre toda familia en el cielo y en la tierra en amor.
Tu que nos ha dicho ``Ama al Senior tu Dios con todo tu corazón, con todo tu ser y con todo tu mente`` y también ``Ama a tu prójimo como a ti mismo.``
Y tu que nos ha encomendado ``vayan y hagan discípulos de todos las naciones, bautizándolos en el nombre del Padre y del Hijo y del Espíritu Santo.``
Por favor Padre nos ayuda a recordar estas cosas que nos han dicho. Nos ayuda a amor a todos en cada momento! Y nos ayuda a ser los ejemplos que nos ha encomendado! Y le pido que nos ayuda a difundir la Buena Noticia de tu interminable Amor.
En tu Nombre precioso,
AMEN!
rough draft in English, quick translation:
Our Heavenly Father,
who receives every family in heaven and on earth in love.
You told us to `` Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind `` and `` Love your neighbor as yourself. ``
And you instructed us to " go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit. ``
Please Father help us remember these things you have told us. Please help us to love everyone at every given moment! And help us to be the examples you have commanded us to be! And I ask you to help us spread the Good News of your never ending Love.
In your precious name
AMEN!
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Guatemala Thus Far
Hey everyone,
About three weeks ago I came to Guatemala by Gods will to learn the culture and bring God with me into the culture.
For the past three weeks I have been learning how to live like Guatemalans, talk like Guatemalans, and everything else the Guatemalans do (dress, walk, shop, yes even shower like a Guatemalan) it has been a hard transition, leaving my culture and my rights behind in Canada, and taking on the rights and culture of Guatemala. Upon arriving in Guatemala we came to Chimaltango where we stopped at a Bible seminary for two days getting our saftey briefing, and our first taste of Guatemalan culture. After these two days we jumped on a chicken bus and took it all the way to Antigua. In Antigua we arrived at what would be our school for the next couple weeks, this school we would be pruely studying the Spanish language, after our first class we learned we were to be living at different families within the city so it was 24/7 immersion within the language. My family was rather nice, they gave me delicious food and talked to me (in spanish). Over the weeks in Antigua one of our girls almost got mugged, we discovered through living with the people how to act and react like Guatemalans, and we even learned how to shop like Guatemalans (a little bartering in the pocket of experiences) and some people got sick, that would include me which was not cool. Eventually we moved from Antigua to San Pedro about a 30-45 minute walk outside of Antigua, this place was run by a older couple who live in Abbotsford, it was a really nice place to reatreat to in the evening eat american food talk in English, lie on nice cool green grass, it was really nice after a 24/7 weekly immersion. Jon (a friend) and I would run from CMI to school everyday beating people who started off before us, the cool part is the air is really thin here so when I get back LOOK OUT WORLD speedy gonzala has grown up from a mouse to a man! Oh just to add a little "aww" in for the girls, during this time I bought a really nice dress for my youngest sister its a traditional mayan dress, and I can not wait to see her in it! Also during the time I was sick we went to a ministry with in la ciudad de Guatemala proper this ministry minsters to the people who live in the Garabage dump. The people in the Garabage dump, eat, sleep, play, and sacavenge for things they can sell for a small price. These people include: Children, babies, women, and men. These people work in the dump because it is the only job they can get, they make like .001 cents Canadian a day, and on top of that the government makes them pay for working there, you might say that this is stupid a Guatemalan would bow and say "welcome to my country." Also during out stay in Antigua we went to a school which works with kids who India would consider the dalites the untouchables, this school gives kids a chance to to get there green card, which is the working card here within Guatemala basically gr. 6.
After Spanish school was finally done with us, we packed up our stuff and headed back here to Chimaltanago on a chicken bus on which one of the girls was mugged without knowing it (her bag was slashed) upon arriving we found our rooms, and our bags, Jon and I played volly ball with a bunch of guys, OH AND I DISCOVERED SARAH FUNG HAS A IDENTICAL TWIN who can only speak spanish! then I went to bed, and suddenly it was today.
Future:
While here in Chimaltanago we will be taking classes, and working at ministry sites within in the city (of which I still have to discover)
Future Future:
towards the end of this month Discover is splitting into our two teams then we will be traveling to El Salvador. El Salvador in the early 1980's to the late 1990's suffered from a civil war which devastated the country, boys my age and your age (asumeing your were born in the 90's 0r 80's) were forced into child soldires, girls our age were forced to have sex and were rapped against their will. We are going into a culture which still vividly remembers the past, boys and girls scared for life. One of our teams is going to a village which looks down apon Christians, the other we are going farther south where Christians do have a hard time but not as bad.
Prayer Requests:
please pray for our continual saftey while we work here and in El Salvador, and pray that God will open up the hearts and ears of the people we are trying to help. God is what they need, prayer will help greatly. Also! we get earth quakes every now and then, please pray that God will keep us safe during those.
Also when I get back I'll be doing a presentation on what I did down here at my church, and showing you alot of the devestation (it my have to be in a couple different nights, for how long each part will be) if you are interested in hearing more stay in touch. I don't get back for a couple months so it will be a while.
Your prayer is appriciated
your friend,
Jesse Darby
About three weeks ago I came to Guatemala by Gods will to learn the culture and bring God with me into the culture.
For the past three weeks I have been learning how to live like Guatemalans, talk like Guatemalans, and everything else the Guatemalans do (dress, walk, shop, yes even shower like a Guatemalan) it has been a hard transition, leaving my culture and my rights behind in Canada, and taking on the rights and culture of Guatemala. Upon arriving in Guatemala we came to Chimaltango where we stopped at a Bible seminary for two days getting our saftey briefing, and our first taste of Guatemalan culture. After these two days we jumped on a chicken bus and took it all the way to Antigua. In Antigua we arrived at what would be our school for the next couple weeks, this school we would be pruely studying the Spanish language, after our first class we learned we were to be living at different families within the city so it was 24/7 immersion within the language. My family was rather nice, they gave me delicious food and talked to me (in spanish). Over the weeks in Antigua one of our girls almost got mugged, we discovered through living with the people how to act and react like Guatemalans, and we even learned how to shop like Guatemalans (a little bartering in the pocket of experiences) and some people got sick, that would include me which was not cool. Eventually we moved from Antigua to San Pedro about a 30-45 minute walk outside of Antigua, this place was run by a older couple who live in Abbotsford, it was a really nice place to reatreat to in the evening eat american food talk in English, lie on nice cool green grass, it was really nice after a 24/7 weekly immersion. Jon (a friend) and I would run from CMI to school everyday beating people who started off before us, the cool part is the air is really thin here so when I get back LOOK OUT WORLD speedy gonzala has grown up from a mouse to a man! Oh just to add a little "aww" in for the girls, during this time I bought a really nice dress for my youngest sister its a traditional mayan dress, and I can not wait to see her in it! Also during the time I was sick we went to a ministry with in la ciudad de Guatemala proper this ministry minsters to the people who live in the Garabage dump. The people in the Garabage dump, eat, sleep, play, and sacavenge for things they can sell for a small price. These people include: Children, babies, women, and men. These people work in the dump because it is the only job they can get, they make like .001 cents Canadian a day, and on top of that the government makes them pay for working there, you might say that this is stupid a Guatemalan would bow and say "welcome to my country." Also during out stay in Antigua we went to a school which works with kids who India would consider the dalites the untouchables, this school gives kids a chance to to get there green card, which is the working card here within Guatemala basically gr. 6.
After Spanish school was finally done with us, we packed up our stuff and headed back here to Chimaltanago on a chicken bus on which one of the girls was mugged without knowing it (her bag was slashed) upon arriving we found our rooms, and our bags, Jon and I played volly ball with a bunch of guys, OH AND I DISCOVERED SARAH FUNG HAS A IDENTICAL TWIN who can only speak spanish! then I went to bed, and suddenly it was today.
Future:
While here in Chimaltanago we will be taking classes, and working at ministry sites within in the city (of which I still have to discover)
Future Future:
towards the end of this month Discover is splitting into our two teams then we will be traveling to El Salvador. El Salvador in the early 1980's to the late 1990's suffered from a civil war which devastated the country, boys my age and your age (asumeing your were born in the 90's 0r 80's) were forced into child soldires, girls our age were forced to have sex and were rapped against their will. We are going into a culture which still vividly remembers the past, boys and girls scared for life. One of our teams is going to a village which looks down apon Christians, the other we are going farther south where Christians do have a hard time but not as bad.
Prayer Requests:
please pray for our continual saftey while we work here and in El Salvador, and pray that God will open up the hearts and ears of the people we are trying to help. God is what they need, prayer will help greatly. Also! we get earth quakes every now and then, please pray that God will keep us safe during those.
Also when I get back I'll be doing a presentation on what I did down here at my church, and showing you alot of the devestation (it my have to be in a couple different nights, for how long each part will be) if you are interested in hearing more stay in touch. I don't get back for a couple months so it will be a while.
Your prayer is appriciated
your friend,
Jesse Darby
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Three Hills?
"You know what those three hills mean Jesse?" dad asked while coming into Three Hills along the number 2 hwy about 30 minutes out of Olds. "Um we're in Three Hills?" I replied slightly miffed why he would ask such an retorical question. "No. I mean Yes, but tahts not the point I'm getting at." he said while looking through the rear view mirror to look at me sitting in the back seat, with stuff stacked up beside me on either side (bags, pillows, hat, Lacrosse stick) "those hills mean, that you are now responsible for yourself, you have to think through what you do and when a problem comes up you have to fix it................"
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Walmart? and College? WAIT?!?!?!? Walmart?
Well I've been in three hills for a little over a month, and then as soon as August 31st hit I was already off to another country, which would be alienated in so many ways to me, and Walmart means OH SO MUCH MORE!
"Walmart we've got toys, food, milk, vegi's, electronics, and more. AND WAIT WE GOT MORE if you want a 12 gage shot gun this is the place to come!"
I mean wow! fire arms and ammo at walmart? weird. Then whats with the dollar being paper? And why do they say roof oddly? Jet leg is Jet Lag, they even say tag differently. I am definately an alien in another country, I don't think like them, I don't own a rifle, or carry a hand gun on my dashboard in broad day light, to them I speak weird, and apparently I'm to polite? the United States of America what an experience!
The first thing I noticed when crossing the Canadian boarder into the US for the first time in my intire life was the atmosphere some how it was different from the Canadian atmosphere? While driving through the first city (the name exscapes me) I noticed all the American flags (heres a flag, theres a flag, OH LOOK A FLAG!). The second thing I noticed was these guys speed compared to us its INCREDIBLE how fast the legal speed limit is over 100 km/h on a regular two lane road, and 80 through a well populated pedestrian town on streets like that in Canada 50 is the max! Oh and here people will not stop for you when your at a cross walk so good luck if you want to beat a car (hopefully your fast, or built of steal).
When we finally arrived in Plains, Montana at Camp Big Horn things seemed mellow, there was a welcomeing party from the Explore 2nd year who were there before hand. After wards I was welcomed into the Big Horn Community more formally, and I played "taaag" with a few kids who live here. Over the course of the following two days we prepared our selves for a 5 day rafting trip.
September Wedenesday the 2nd we left for Idaho (some where close to the Devils canion) where we would push off into our first set or Rapids, over the next few days, we stopped in many places along the river going from Idaho to Oragon, and from Oragon to Washinton. While on the river I learned and relearned alot of things like how our lives are like a raft being pushed down a rapid, and if we don't know how to handle the rapids it can get fatally dangerous, but with God as our leader we can turn our boat around and make it back up river to the point where we'll be able to correct our mistake and make it through the rapid properly. I also learned alot about community and when it might be a good time to shut-up (still working on that one). Anyways on the last day of our rafting trip we were camping down on a beach, and we were in our group devotional time when suddenly the wind picked up, and when we looked down river I determined that a big fog cloud was approaching us, I was wrong on the contrary it was a sand cloud, in a mater of seconds we would find our selves in a thick sand storm, every breath of air we would be inhaling thousands of particles of sand our stuff would begin to blow away or get burried by the sand, so we began to tie stuff down and put rocks on other things. As soon as this was accomplished we had the task of locating our sleeping bags, with sand stinging our eyes and slowly burrying our beds for the night. Upon locating my sleeping bag I shook of the layering sand, and went to the absolute bottom of my bag and folded up the remaining parts of my bags to stop the sand from getting in my bag with me. In the morning I woke up to a layer or two of sand covering me, it was wicked! After our interesting evening, we finished off our trip and landed a few hours out of spokane, we then had to travel through Spokane to get back to Montana which took A LONG TIME. Once in Montana the drivers dumped us off in the middle of some forest called area 51, there we went over Wilderness First Aid, and a leadership seminar. After a few days of remaining in the cold forest without a sweater or adequate clothing of staying warm I was happy to return to camp, at which we had to clean up, and then we had the week end off. Discovering the news that I had the weekend off I came to the sad realization that I missed everyone REALL REALLY much, but thats life. This basically brings you up to date on everything that happened, oh besides the fact that I met the people who own the horses across the road and I'll be able to go out on one of the horses really soon!
if these small snippets of information caught your attention and you enjoyed them, please stay tunned for the next bit of my college life.
"Walmart we've got toys, food, milk, vegi's, electronics, and more. AND WAIT WE GOT MORE if you want a 12 gage shot gun this is the place to come!"
I mean wow! fire arms and ammo at walmart? weird. Then whats with the dollar being paper? And why do they say roof oddly? Jet leg is Jet Lag, they even say tag differently. I am definately an alien in another country, I don't think like them, I don't own a rifle, or carry a hand gun on my dashboard in broad day light, to them I speak weird, and apparently I'm to polite? the United States of America what an experience!
The first thing I noticed when crossing the Canadian boarder into the US for the first time in my intire life was the atmosphere some how it was different from the Canadian atmosphere? While driving through the first city (the name exscapes me) I noticed all the American flags (heres a flag, theres a flag, OH LOOK A FLAG!). The second thing I noticed was these guys speed compared to us its INCREDIBLE how fast the legal speed limit is over 100 km/h on a regular two lane road, and 80 through a well populated pedestrian town on streets like that in Canada 50 is the max! Oh and here people will not stop for you when your at a cross walk so good luck if you want to beat a car (hopefully your fast, or built of steal).
When we finally arrived in Plains, Montana at Camp Big Horn things seemed mellow, there was a welcomeing party from the Explore 2nd year who were there before hand. After wards I was welcomed into the Big Horn Community more formally, and I played "taaag" with a few kids who live here. Over the course of the following two days we prepared our selves for a 5 day rafting trip.
September Wedenesday the 2nd we left for Idaho (some where close to the Devils canion) where we would push off into our first set or Rapids, over the next few days, we stopped in many places along the river going from Idaho to Oragon, and from Oragon to Washinton. While on the river I learned and relearned alot of things like how our lives are like a raft being pushed down a rapid, and if we don't know how to handle the rapids it can get fatally dangerous, but with God as our leader we can turn our boat around and make it back up river to the point where we'll be able to correct our mistake and make it through the rapid properly. I also learned alot about community and when it might be a good time to shut-up (still working on that one). Anyways on the last day of our rafting trip we were camping down on a beach, and we were in our group devotional time when suddenly the wind picked up, and when we looked down river I determined that a big fog cloud was approaching us, I was wrong on the contrary it was a sand cloud, in a mater of seconds we would find our selves in a thick sand storm, every breath of air we would be inhaling thousands of particles of sand our stuff would begin to blow away or get burried by the sand, so we began to tie stuff down and put rocks on other things. As soon as this was accomplished we had the task of locating our sleeping bags, with sand stinging our eyes and slowly burrying our beds for the night. Upon locating my sleeping bag I shook of the layering sand, and went to the absolute bottom of my bag and folded up the remaining parts of my bags to stop the sand from getting in my bag with me. In the morning I woke up to a layer or two of sand covering me, it was wicked! After our interesting evening, we finished off our trip and landed a few hours out of spokane, we then had to travel through Spokane to get back to Montana which took A LONG TIME. Once in Montana the drivers dumped us off in the middle of some forest called area 51, there we went over Wilderness First Aid, and a leadership seminar. After a few days of remaining in the cold forest without a sweater or adequate clothing of staying warm I was happy to return to camp, at which we had to clean up, and then we had the week end off. Discovering the news that I had the weekend off I came to the sad realization that I missed everyone REALL REALLY much, but thats life. This basically brings you up to date on everything that happened, oh besides the fact that I met the people who own the horses across the road and I'll be able to go out on one of the horses really soon!
if these small snippets of information caught your attention and you enjoyed them, please stay tunned for the next bit of my college life.
