Wow! This past week was a real busy one for me. I’m just looking at my calendar and wondering how I was ever able to fit in all of that in just 7 days. There was a lot of homework, club meetings, and coffee dates with friends, but I’m going to tell you about the three exciting events that I was able to be a part of.First was coffee house on Thursday night. It was hilarious and probably my favourite coffee house of the year. Matt and Travis were the hosts and told some funny jokes in between acts. The acts showcased a wide range of Redeemer’s talents from Jordon’s impacting and powerful song about his brother, to Tyler’s sarcastically entertaining song about a man’s life. Other than songs there was an impromptu skit crew where they did a scene and from the audience suggested how to tweak it to make it better. Peter led a stand up comedy act that tickled our funny bone. But my highlight of the evening was some forth years, Brent and Matt, giving us younglings some of their wisdom in the skit called, “the Couch Move.” For those of you who are unfamiliar of this manoeuvre, it is the skill of sitting beside a girl that you like on a couch. This perfectly leads into the next event that I attended, the annual spring banquet.
Although this evening was far from sitting on the couch with a girl you like, there was still an informative skit on how to properly slow dance with the girl you like – on opposite sides of the room. The dance was called Soirée du Soleil and themed like cirque du soleil with colourful decorations and acrobats for entertainment. We played a huge game of rock paper scissors, where the rep from my table lost to President Cooper! We danced to our hearts content and then got to show off our style in the large dance-off, congrats to Julia for winning! All in all that night was a blast!!!The next day was Saturday, but not your typical Saturday, this day was the Cross Culture outreach even. Cross Culture is a gathering of youth groups from across Hamilton and Redeemerites volunteering together at different inner city Hamilton sites. Some of these include: renovation of Philpot church, and helping at a shelter for people suffering with mental illness. My group went to SISO the Globe, which is an organization sponsored by the government of Canada for immigrant and refugee youth to come and get help on school work and transition into Canadian culture. It was a really exciting place to work, even though our job wasn’t very glamorous. We cleaned out a storage closet and helped them prepare for a volunteer appreciation dinner. All the employees and youth that were very thankful for our work and were excited to talk with us. We had such a great time at Cross Culture learning how worship and service are connected. Everything we do is a spiritual act of worship, including our volunteering.
This weekend was really busy, but it was great to attend school events with the Redeemer community and to get to then volunteer in the Hamilton community.
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