Girls in ARC

ARC stands for Airdrie Regional Campus. This is a satellite campus of Center Street in Calgary. Savannah and Rebeccah have been part of their youth group on and off for the last year. They are an amazing youth group led by Grover, that's right, not Cookie Monster or Oscar the Grouch but Grover. 

Ok not that grover but Grover Bradford. He and a handful of leaders and parents do a great job of leading the kids to do learn about Jesus, learn about themselves and to do service projects. 

      They have helped locally by collecting food door to door for the food bank and cleaning a yard. 

They have helped in Calgary by making sandwiches for the Mustard Seed. 

They have helped internationally by packing shoeboxes for Operation Christmas Child, which is the reason for the pile of shoes blocking our doorway yesterday as we were blessed with their presence at our home filling shoeboxes.

Keep up the great work ARC youth! Thank you for caring.

SUNDAY KIDS TIME

 Two weeks ago we began hosting a Kids Time on Sunday afternoons at 3:30pm. The kids practice their memory verses, sing Bible songs, listen to Bible stories, do crafts and play games all centered on a specific theme or Bible verse.

Parents are happy with the memory verses we have chosen lately that include

Children obey your parents for this pleases the Lord
and Do to others as you would have them do to you.

Thank to Sherri and Megan for bringing your children to learn about Jesus and to entertain us with their antics, the kids that is :) Thanks to Savannah and Rebeccah for all their help.

Survival Of The Driest

Becca took an option this semester called "Survival of the Smartest". Its an outdoor ed class led by Mr Giroux that teaches survival skills. To cap off the class and use the skills that they were taught they had an overnight wilderness camping trip to an area about 1 hour from Airdrie in the Elbow River valley.

Will and 3 others from Company of Adventurers led the camp under the supervision of Mr Giroux, Mme Emilie and 2 parents including myself.

The kids built shelters, cooked their own meals on single burner stoves, went for a hike, practiced building fires and played a lot of fun games, all outside, in the snow. 

As the temperature dropped during the night to -5C the kids learned the importance of warm sleeping bags and dry clothes as they tried stay warm and fall asleep in the shelters that they had built.

Becca had some trouble falling asleep after a roommate said that Chucky was outside their shelter. Mme Emilie reluctantly got out of her warm sleeping bag and went over to comfort and reassure the girls that Chucky wasn't out there.


After a long, dark and cold night the sun finally came out and the adults and kids came back to life (sort of...). The kids made themselves breakfast which varied from cereal and milk to breakfast burritos. Then they played some field games, followed by an awesome hike to a ridge overlooking the Elbow River Valley. The bus was waiting when we got back from the hike and took us back to warm dry homes and beds.

I'm proud to say that all the kids and adults survived the adventure. At the end of the second day they were asked what advice they would pass on to the next group of kids. The comments included:  dress warmly, stay dry, bring extra socks and choose your roommates carefully, which is probably the best piece of advice given :).