Well, this is it! There are only six days left in Canada
until I leave for England. Yesterday was my second-last shift at Canadian Tire,
today was my commissioning service at Coquitlam Alliance and it will soon be a
week since I stopped working at Sasamat Outdoor Centre. The past five months
have been difficult in terms of trying to work 35 to 50 hours a week, seeing
everyone that I missed while doing my DTS (while also saying goodbye as it came
closer to leaving again) and raising support for going back. But God has been
incredibly faithful in the support raising so that I didn’t have to worry too
much of who would be supporting me and if I had enough to live on base. As of a
few days ago, my most recent monthly sponsorship has made me fully funded every
month for my time in England and all of the one-time donations that I’ve
received will be helping tremendously with my plane flight, visa and future
outreach fees.
It feels a bit weird to leave again; I feel like I just got
home. But I guess it took me quite a few months to get used to being here
again. Even though Canada and England really aren’t that different, living on a
Christ-focused YWAM base with people who share the same values and beliefs is
extremely different to living in a secular, ever-increasing atheist city with
people who don’t really know what they believe. And that was something that I
had to learn how to handle. Even before YWAM I had been, for the most part,
living in my own Christian bubble with friends that either believed the same
thing I did or supported me in my decisions. I haven’t had to deal too much who
have aggressively disbelieved in God. But it's good practice, I guess, to be always ready to give an account of why I believe what I believe. And, thankfully, I haven't had to deal with much of that when I was growing up. I was able to form a strong belief in something bigger than myself at a young age without outside opinions. Which is now good for what I'm about to do...?
Anyways, my thoughts don't always come out intelligently so I'll stop there just in case...
