james law

I have been thinking a lot about how the church can evangelize and am learning from FAC. With these outreach events and social programs, it seems like its a good way to reach out to the community in a non forceful and non evasive way. It is an approach that is trying to be inviting without pressuring the individuals into becoming a Christian. I also realize the importance of the church investing time in each other. I find it encouraging when I see people like Dave Burridge (a youth worker who plays bball and fishes with kids from the projects around the church) being able to reach out to these kids and also invest time into these kids lives. Its definitely a challenge when having a program like bball can get lost in what the purpose of the event really is. Some people would think its just playing sports, and sometimes it may only feel like its just playing sports. I feel like with church, anything can be church as long as you have the bigger vision in mind when you are going a...

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So I have been thinking about this internship and what it brings. How will it bless me and how will I be a blessing unto others her in Scarborough? Or maybe I should be asking.. what does God want to do with me and the community here? I have been trying to remember as many names as possible.. but its hard. Every day its a new name, and some dark skinned people who you think should have ethnic last first and last names have generic names like Sue Murray. I am loving the Sri Lanken last names though.. like Manohaharaj and Gulasekharam... can't miss that. One of my tasks is to make a video for the annual meeting this year to recap all the great things that have taken place at FAC. We all know how annual meetings can get tiring and boring if they are just going through one thing after the other. Hopefully I can do my best to bring some life into it. So today I took a bunch of pictures of some Seniors who play board games and hang out at FAC in our Seniors library. It was super...

Its funny how postmodernism changes things... where Missions trips don't always have clear objectives anymore. Before you would think that we would have to build a school or raise up a church for a Missions trip to be successful. Or to convert someone or at the least go door to door. Now it seems it is more about influence and relationships. Like the saying that kinf of goes like "Let the people know that you believe in Jesus Christ and that you love God, and if you have to, use words." After we finished our day camp, this is where most of the ministry I believe happened. Just sharing life together at their camp and ours. We spent a lot of time hanging out with the kids after our camps were over. Just being ourselves, hoping that the love of Christ would shine through the way we live. We did a lot of swimming in the river which was awesome. Jumping of this mini cliff into the water was a huge highlight of the camp. We would ask them if they would be up for ...