Brightwood Ranch

So hey everyone. Well I do believ the last post posted was about how I got this awesome, decent paying job with a guy in my church. Well hey, plans change and God moves through his people. Well after spending the weekend out at Brightwood Ranch (http://www.hopemission.com/stackup/Default.htm) with our youth (who lead a retreat for kids as a prep for the Peru mission, doing worship, dramas and meal prep and general maintence) I have totally been lost in God and what He wants for me. Ever since Kaleo I have had a burning passion for camp ministry but have declined the opportunities due to coming up with the finiances for school. Which by the way, in 2 years of schooling I had NO STUDENT LOANS!!! Anywhoodles...I will now be Sr. councler (sp?) this summer. Brightwood Ranch is located about an hour form my house (and 2 1/2 hrs strght east of Jasper). It is based out of Hope Mission in Edmonton. I had known about Hope Mission forever but was clueless that they had a camp. Each week kids are bused out from downtown Edmonton or surrounding areas. Most if not all of these kids are street kids or fostered kids with heartbreaking homes or backgrounds. Brightwood Ranch has 13,000 acres of land and close to 100 horses. They offer jr. Wrangler programs that run 4 weeks with camp outs and such as well as 'Sweat Team' week which is a service week where the kids still have time for activities like riflery, archry, wall climbing, a petting zoo and horseback trail rides etc, but they mainly are there almost as a 'bootcamp' type deal, where they learn to develop leadership and serve through animal training, meal preperation, bush trimming, stable cleaning etc. So far this year, I will be the 3rd male councler (sp) and they are so pshyced to have me back and have a great need for more males. The job I have now is amazing and pays well, but bcuz of no more school (as of yet anyways) and the study we have been going through on finances (biblically) and my passion for troubled kids and desire to do camp ministry, I am going through with this. I ask that you you pray for me cuz I feel a heavy burden already and have been praying for God to lift that. I know that this is a burden for the kids I will be looked up to from. I saw this guy on Life Today named Edward John who has a series of DVD's called 'Fearless'. He explains how true freedom is only found in Christ (duh right?) and yet even though we know that, we dont have it. He said that for years he tried to be accpted and become like everyone else, but now he's finding evryone wants to be like him cuz he has something every sould desires, true freedom! He explained how he surrouned his life to Christ and wrote out on paper what he desired to have accomplised in life. He wrote out 4 pages with so much, but mainly that God would use him through musci. At the time he coyuld barely play guitar and now he is an internationally known Christian artist. His DVD series is spectacualr. I have been writing out specific things I want to see God do in me this summer and the more I pray into it, the more clearly things are becoming. I am seeing things unseen. This weekend I toally had dejavu there @ the camp, having that feeling like I had seen that place before. God is really moving in my and I pray for all you that you may be able to write out what it is that you want in life. Your unimaginable passions and dreams. The dreams that mammon (the spirt behind money) destroys and says that you will never be able to accomplish those things. I challange you guys to pray into your diaries or journels. I was praying for years about things, but until I started to write them down and see them in front of me as I pray them out, I had never truly felt God taking my crys and blessing them and holding on to them dearly. Pray also for my confrece in July that I am leading and the jr. mission trip to Saskatoon this summer I am taking part in. I love you all and have been thinking about you all and all the memories. A year of my life that changed my heart and began breaking it slowly. I miss you all and will hopefully be able to see some of you @ the St. Pierre wedding in October. God Bless you my brothers and sisters. ~Jason~ PS. Happy Mothers Day Sarah Badke and Amanda Muik, and all my other sisters who are going to be mothers one day* : )