If you havent heard about the BC Ferries fiasco, let me be the first to inform you. This morning a BC Ferry lost its power and colllided into the wharf taking out 18 sail boat, and it beached itself. Crews are still body searching. Now I recently read Samuel Logan Brengles book "Helps to Holiness" and he writes a section on power and the effects of the lacking of. With this incident we learn that when there is no power there is a disaster..similarily this is how Brengle describes our lives like without power.

Do we have the power?

Check out Sarahs (link on right) website...on it includes original photograpy and poetry...

(is that better carla?)

Canadas only Vigin Records located in Vancouver is closing as of September. Shame really.

I got this random email this morning (i say random because this person has never emailed me before) from this girl ive councelled the last 2 maybe even 3 years at camp. This girl is amazing. She has such an angelic voice. The first year I councelled her she was 12 and could speak in tounges...allthough she testifies she isnt saved...and to my knowledge one must have the Holy Spirit, which is the gift and assurance of salvation, to pray in the spirit...i mean you cant have Holy Spirit gifts without the Holy Spirit right?...anyways, she is going through alot of the same stuff i struggled with...we had a special bond at camp. Last year I even received a few hand written letters from her. This girl has never left my heart. She must be 14 now. So in this random email she tells me shes been adopted, her sisters have had babies etc etc.... AND THE FACT THAT SHE LIVES IN COLWOOD...which is really only 10 minutes from my house here in Victoria. God's divinity...could it be any mre perfect?

SuperSoakers these days....

I tell ya...when I was a kid we had the SuperSoaker100...200...300...up to like 1500. Each increasing in water capasity. Well I had the pleasure of attending a childrens water fight...and let me tell you about SuperSoakers these days...

There is a 'SpiderManSoaker' which has a special feature of shooting water in 5 different directions, so your target has now moved from 1 person to 5.

There is an 'Arctic Shock Soaker' which has a special feature of including an ice pack so the water you shoot is freezing cold upon hit.

There are water guns with jet packs, double barrels, pressure pumps...you name it.

Needless to say my water balloons did not hold up to the SuperSoakers I faced that day.

You know when you are talking to an Austrailian when...

They randomly reminiss about going to the beach at 3am.

Oh...and Racheals praying for Lindsay Lohan...

So...the city of Richmond is in the process of creating the worlds largest Buddah. This is going to stand over 10 stories high...thats 5 average houses stacked on top of eachother. This is going to be one ugly sight, not only in the spiritual, but in the natural this is going to be physically ugly.

You wouldnt see the city of Richmond fishing out money to build a 10 story Jesus...or even a 1 story Jesus for that matter...not that any one would want a statue of Jesus or anything...its just principle

Allthough I must remind myself Talks Cheap!

spiritual bi-polor

any cures?

According to quizfarm.com I will die via Gunshot, followed by suicide...hmmm looks like I could use your prayers.

Clearly I have been wasting time by taking ridiculus quizzes on the internet!! Okay...Im going back to work now.

You scored as GUNSHOT, probably because you are some important person or whatever.

Gunshot...................................100%
Suicide....................................80%
Posion.....................................67%
Eaten......................................67%
Disappear..................................67%
Stabbed....................................67%
Disease....................................67%
Drowning...................................67%
Accident...................................53%
Bomb.......................................47%
Natural Causes.............................33%
Cut Throat.................................33%
Suffocated.................................20%

I along others in the Armybarmy/Blogger world have taken this quiz...here are my results...
Click the link below my results and take it too.

Evangelical Holiness/Wesleyan		100%
Charismatic/Pentecostal		89%
Emergent/Postmodern		79%
Classical Liberal		64%
Reformed Evangelical		57%
Fundamentalist		54%
Neo orthodox		43%
Modern Liberal		29%
Roman Catholic		11%

What's your theological worldview?
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Question...

How do you disiple, or build relationship as in one on one with a Child of Christ who is a victom of the perverted lies of the devil and is gender confused?

those were my nails that was my crown that peirced your hands and your brow

those were my thorns those were my scornes and my tears that fell down

and just as you said it would be you did it all for me

after you counted the cost you took

my shame my blame on my cross

those were our nails that was our crown that peirced your hands and your brow
those were our thorns those were our scornes and our tears that fell down
and just as you said it would be you did it all for us
after you counted the cost you took
our shame our blame on our cross

best birthday ever....
today I was talking to my friend Andrea and she asked what I was doing tonight...being my birthday and all...and I said Im leading Bible Study...she assumed it was teen Bible Study, because thats what I normally do Thursdays....well I wasnt....we have switched from a Family Bible night, to adult Bible night due to the summer. We also switched locations from the corps to someones house....yet we put a note on the corps doors with the address of the new location for people who might have forgotten the switch.

Anyways, so here I am with about 10 adults...average age 45....and we are nearing the end of the study....when there is this nice little knock on the door...i look up, and to my surprise it was Andrea. Who had brought along, Debra, Jason and Justin...in hand with cake, helium balloons, party hats...the works...it was so funny, cuz the adults didnt know what to do with themselves...the five of us were laughing muchly becuase they were all prepared to come to a youth Bible Study....man oh man it was good times....

BEST BIRTHDAY EVER!!!

Why the change?
I received a word that this year is going to be a transforming year...hence the new blog title...and look...
Should be exciting. Transform me Lord.

I stole this blog idea from my friend Jamie Smith-check her out at www.christsambassador.blogspot.com .
Its General William Booths resolutions at 20.

I do promise-in Gods helping-

Firstly that I will rise every morning sufficiently early to wash, dress, and have a few minutes, not less than five, in private prayer.

Secondly. That I will as much as possible avoid all that babbling and idle talking in which I have lately so sinfully indulged.

Thirdly. That I will endeavour in my conduct and deportment before the world and my fellow servants especcially to conduct myself as a humble, meek, and zealous follower of the bleeding Lamb, and by serious conversation and warninmg endeavour to lead them to think of their immortal souls.

Fourthly. That I will not read less than four chapters in God's word every day.

Fifthly. That I will strive to live closer to God, and to seek after holiness of heart, and leae providential events with God.

Sixthly. That I wll read this over every day or at least twice a week.

God help me, enable me to cultivate a spirit of self-denial and to yield myself a prisoner of love to the Redeemer of the world.Amen and amen.

Im up to the challenge...and now that Im 20 I do promise - in Gods helping - to be covenanted to the above...there I said it, now Im bound to it...for life.

Oh and by the way, all of you who read about me turning in my Salvation Army Soldiership, be ready in 365 days to see me back with blue eplets...(not that I ever wore a uniform before though....)

haha thought i would annoy everyone and use a very faint color that is hard to read...

well, you went to the trouble of sqinting to read this, or like a genous would, highlighted it to read it...so it would be nice of me to write someone for your effort eh?
here ya go

so ive changed my blog look...all by myself i might add....
plans for next year are coming along
...WHOS YOUR DADDY...(im preaching that on sunday)

Ive been reading alot of old Army literuature (ugh, using the word literature makes me sound smart!) hence all the recent Sally Ann quotes.

Why are only ones and twos saved? Not because of any decree to save ones and twos only, but because only ones and twos go out to save them. A crowd that understands its business, and knows how to take hold of God, and how to deal with men, will catch a crowd. Let us go out in crowds to this scavenging business. Come along!

General William Booth-Filth-Salvation Soldiery

Samuel Logan Brengle-Zeal
'True zeal is from above. Its source is in the mountains of the Lord’s holiness,
and its spirning fountains in the deep, cool valleys of humility.
It is born of the Holy Spirit, and issues from a knowledge of ‘the truth as it is in Jesus.’

General William Booth-The Salvation Army
What a strange name! What does it mean?
Just what it says – a number of people joined together after the fashion of an army
and therefore it is an army,
and an army for the purpose of carrying Salvation through the land.
It is neither more nor less than that.
If it be wise and lawful and desirable for men
to be banded together and organized
after the best method possible to liberate an enslaved nation,
establish it in liberty
and overcome its foes, then surely it must be wise and lawful
and desirable for the people of God to join themselves together
after the fashion most effective and forcible to liberate a captive world,
and to overcome the enemies of God and man.

Oh! Friends, we want the power that we may be able to go and stretch ourselves upon the dead in trespasses and sins and breath into him the breath of spiritual life. We want to be able to go and touch his eyes that he may see, and speak to the dead and deaf with the voice of God and make them hear. This is what we want - POWER.

Catherine Booth-The Holy Ghost

I went to a high school to watch a dance performance of a friend the other night. High Schools have changed since I gradded...which really wasnt that long ago...only 2 years....

In their foyer they had a silent auction, and one of the bids was for a womans lengeriay ( i cant even spell the word ) set. It was skimpy, and teeny. See-through lace on the whole set. This is a school where the youngest students are 12...TWELVE...and the admin at the school is allowing such a thing. Sick. No wonder kids are haveing sex younger and younger. No wonder rapes and pregnancys are going up. Where is the justice?

Not to mention the actual dances being performed. The dance moves were very perocative. The song lyrics were mostly "come sleep with me bitch". And as far as the dress code, they might as well have been wearing this thing they were auctioning off.

Well...there were a couple good dances. And my friends dance...she did great!!! Woot woot, go Sammie!!!! you rock.

empty spaces fill me up with holes

distent faces with no place left to go

without you within me i cant find no rest

where im going is anybodys guess

i tried to go on like i never knew you

im awake but my world is half asleep

i pray for this heart to be made broken

but without you all im going to be is

incomplete

voices tell me i should carry on

but i am swimming in an ocean all alone

baby my baby its written on your face

you still wonder if we made a big mistake

i tried to go on like i never knew you

im awake but my world is half asleep

i pray for this heart to be unbroken

but without you all im going to be is

incomplete

i dont need to drag it on

but i cant seem to let you go

i dont want to make you face this world alone

i wanna let you go

i tried to go on like i never knew you

im awake but my world is half asleep

i pray for this heart to be unbroken

but without you all im going to be is

incomplete

incomplete

The Backstreet Boys are never gone.

Submission.
Humility.

So I have this huge scab on my knee eh? And it is sooo annoying! Ya know when you have cuts, ma-ski-toe (cant spell) bites or giant gashes and when they begin to heal they get ichy and you try hard not too, but you scratch the scab off hopeing for releif yet only experiencing a more painful and longer (and grosser) healing....instead of medicating it or putting a bandaid on

Well...is that why so many of us experience a similar prossess in spiritual healing? The prossess begins and its annoying, ichy, bothersom so you try to rid it yourself but actually create a more painful and longer and grosser healing...

Uhhh, when will we learn to die!

uhhh, I was trying something out...I didnt have time to finish...
so the blogs gotta new look...i just need to change the size of the title...goodness its huge!

Tonight I had the priviledge of seeing people, some I knew, some I didnt, preform at a jazz cafe. They went by ages and a few kids performed and were great...then this girl Gabrielle from the corps sang..."How Deep The Fathers Love For Us"...this was a completley secular cafe, with a secular performing group. It was great!!!

Then this other girl, who I didnt know, went up and sang. This girl seemed to be mildly autistic and sang some Jan Arden song I didnt know. But the words were basically I have everything, but thats not what makes me happy, what makes me happy is my mother and father. She sung this so on key, and directly from her heart. I cried. (Seriously...I do that now - I never used too) It was so beautiful.

Then one of the teens from the corps got up and sang. It was awesoem to see someone at that age (15) use the gift God gave them so confidently and humbly.

And I was cool. I was at a cool jazz cafe...and I wore my cool hat...and cool earings....

Dont you hate it when you learn stuff the hard way?? Dont you wish you had more wisdom in the first place to prevent lessons learned hard?? To save you from reading a long blog...I have created a math equation (I know what your thinking...Nicole?...Math?...) to explain my hard learned lesson...

Nicole + a van full of teens + loud music and yelling out windows and being ridiculus + one teen who isnt a fan of crazyness combined with vehicles = one upset mother

For the record, our crazyness was still in sync with the law.
And after some apologies, myself and the girl are cool, and myself and her mother are cool...yet I still junky...

Ahh for those of you who have been waiting for the return of the Cameron Kid Quote of the Day...fret no more, they are back...

"Im the pastors kid so I can do whatever I want"
Robbie Cameron Age 5

Here is a great quote I heard the other day...

"If you want to make an impact...expect a collision" Martin Luther King

COME ON!!!!!

Hey Mia
This is a blog just for you.
I like you.
Remember New Years..ahhh New Years...good times! Haha
I was checking out your blog and thought I would motivate you to write another post...
So do it!
So, Remember New Years....
I love you Mia!!

61 years ago today was D-Day, where allied troops strategically attacked off of five beaches in France.

Well, I thought I'd put something educational on this blog for a change.

Put your hand in a fist, then wrap your other hand around your fist...and thats the size of the bruise on my knee.

Then mesure the length of your pinky finger and thats the size of the gash in my knee.

Today I was at a birthday party and let a 16 year old peirce my ear cartiledge.

Well for you Salvo's out there...heres something I heard today...

When the Tsumamis happened in Southeast Asia there were lines down the street with parents holding thier dead babies waiting to see the Priest. The Priests who would daily, hourly, no minutly be taking these babies from mourning parents where no doubt getting overwhelmed by the dispair and heavyness. Someone saw a Salvation Army vehical approaching and said "Dont worry, the Salvation Army is here"

This is why we exist...to spread Gods love. Amen.

Whatever happend to Thortin and Jewels? Well Im glad you asked! I ran into them today, and you will be happy to know they are still happily together. If you have no idea who Im talking about click here --> http://worthyisthelambwhowasslain.blogspot.com/2005/05/thortin-and-jewels.html

Whatever happened to Dicky and Thompson? Well Im glad you asked! I came accross them today. When I first met them I had just moved here and was looking for friends...I did not preach at them and I did not tell them I was with the Army, or even a Christian for that matter, I just wanted to witness by example. Well I was serving at the ARC today and Dicky came through the line, it was a very akward situation. Then later I was at a store picking up supplies and Dicky and Thompson were both there. How are they? Good question, cuz I dont know, I was too shy to say anything! If you have no idea who Im talking about click here -->
http://worthyisthelambwhowasslain.blogspot.com/2005/05/its-lovely-day-in-neighborhood.html

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