Kylie Malia here, How often do we forget or stereotype the people left in prison? What do you think of when you think of prison? I know for sure I went into the prison ministry with at least a little feeling of how the prisoners were to receive me and my Joshua siblings. For some reason, I felt really heavy, a fear that my words wouldn’t matter going into it. Likewise, the men we sat
Howdy! It’s been yet another rollercoaster of a week up at the Joshua building. After working a couple of four-day winter camp weekends in a row, the return of our sabbath Monday morning was a much-needed refresher. We’ve been blessed by the presence of Dean and Nancie this week, and their constant care has been uplifting. On Tuesday, we found out our evangelism groups for our LA trip next week (shout out to Katie, Adari,
“And coming on the ice to defend their three year undefeated Kurth Cup title, give it up for the masters of the ice, the Hume Lake boys!!” The crowds burst into an uproar and the broom hockey arena shook with the cheers of the Hume Lake full-timers, part-timers, Joshua students, proud parents, and all the defeated teams living vicariously through this epic event. Broom hockey at Hume Lake is life. The weekend winter campers versus
Hello everyone! This week for me has been so much fun!!! One special highlight was Valentine’s Day! For Valentine’s Day, the guys decided to decorate the dining hall and serve the ladies waffles! We stayed up pretty late and had some surprise spoiling scares, but in the end it turned out to be a sweet gift for the Ladies. Along with Valentine’s Day to mark this week was Philippians 3 testing! It is incredible to
Hey guys, this past week in the DR has been a blast! I’ve had the opportunity to work with special ed kids these past two weeks. During school hours, I get to help in the classes. In the classes, I help the kids with writing and math. During recess, we played zombie tag and basketball. Then, after school was over, we painted the play structure and helped do work for the teachers. We then returned
Today was an awesome day. I am on the men’s sports team, and on Fridays, our team lead, Dave, goes to the player’s teachers and checks their grades to make sure they are doing well in school. While Dave checked in with the teachers, my teammates and I played basketball and volleyball with the students and some of our players. It was an awesome experience to see the players at school and how excited they