"Crow-Kay"

The interns are now here. They all trickled in on Saturday, from all over. Many from Canada, then New Hampshire, California and Michigan. These people blow me away, they are quite mature in their character, great servants waiting at any moment to serve. Not having a dishwasher in the guys house, I've been very impressed with how clean our kitchen has been. They are also quick to pray for anyone and worship. Every morning around 6 am everyone is scattered around the house spending their time with Him. We already have had great worship time and great moments of laughter.

Tuesday was the start of the 101: "The Art of Hearing God". We also had the usual work around the offices and or houses and creative night, taught by Joni Cooper. Another thing that I'm greatly excited about is that Samuel, a pastor and principle from Kenya is staying with us for twelve days. He's staying in the leaders' room (my room) so we get to talk lots his experiences. Already we've asked many question about God moving in Africa and what its like there. Everynight there, the Holy Spirit wakes him up to pray, because there's many spiritual darkness hightened at night. Breaking through to heaven is harder in Africa because of so much witchcraft and negative spirituality. The Lord will give Samuel dreams of someone about to get hurt, or in an accident. His prayers will allow God to stop anyone from getting hurt.

I have to say Canada is a pretty cool place to be, where else can you say eh? after every question and say "paa-sta" instead of "pah-stah". They also have Loonies and Toonies which are $1 and $2 coins, no need for any paper bills below $5.00 here. But whats really crazy is that in Vancouver I have seen palm trees, yes, small short palm trees. How often do you see palm trees in Canada"?. I'll get a picture in for you guys next time.




Our offical sport here in Streams Canada Internship is the gentlemen game of croquet. The fad has grown rapidly.

Richmond?

Hello everyone I've been in Vancouver for over a week now. Upon arrival we hugged everyone, happy seeing interns from last year again. For a few days I felt very dissoriented being in a new country. My first time ever leaving America. Richmond is where we live, a suburb of Vancouver. Its a delta formed by the Fraser River, because of that we are six feet below sea level. The rest of vancouver is hilly surrounded by huge mountains.

A factor that makes Vancouver feel like a far away country and not just Canada is because 90% of Richmond's population is Chinese. After Hong Kong became an indendent from English rule many Chinese went to Vancouver. Most of them are very wealthy. All around they are tearing down most of the old houses here and making huge fancy houses in place of them. Many of the shop signs are in English and Mandarin.

We have gone nonstop all week with training and setting up a ministry from the ground up. I quite enjoy pioneering, though
many times it is scary. For half the day everyday we have teaching, planing and praying for the interns coming. We look at a picture of them and pray for each and everyone. The second half of the day we are working around the house from building, moving, maintinance and running errands.

Last weekend I was finally able to go toward downtown Vancouver. It is truly a beautiful place.

"This land is your land, this land is my land"

We started in Washington, DC on the first day driving 19 hours through severe thunderstorms in Iowa to stay at Noah's brother's house in Omaha, Nebraska.






















After a day of rest we headed on toward our long trek towards Montana.














































The last day we struggled to get up, drove about 12 more hours, through Idaho, Seattle traffic and through an hour and a half wait at the border. We got our Visas in about thirty minutes and reached Canada about 11 o'clock Pacific time.

Adventures of Sailor Man