October 18 is Youth Week  at WIN Ontario. Our Young People will be leading our congregations in worship and the study of the Word.

After two years, Word International Ontario once again held its family camp entitled WE WIN– Becoming the WINNER God Wants You to Be. The excitement and anticipation was very evident from the very time the campers started to arrive at the Pearce Williams Christian Centre in Fingal, Ontario. For the participants, the camp would be a welcome break from the stress of everyday life. Many came having great expectations of getting closer to the Lord, being revived and encouraged. As always, the Lord has been faithful in not only meeting those expectations but exceeding them as well.

Camp Highlights:

· The Young Adults surprised everyone by preparing a candlelight dinner complete with piano music

· Eight people made a public declaration of their faith by being baptized in water

· The Youth Ministry also served lunch while entertaining the campers with special numbers.

· It was not only the adults who were blessed and learned about the Lord during the camp, our children were also blessed with creative lessons and activities. Thank you Sis Ailene and Sis Meann.

· The group cheering and presentations were as tight as ever with every group pulling out all the stops to emerge as winners

With everything that happened in the camp, everybody came out winners!

The Bible recognizes the power of our words:

The tongue can bring death or life;
those who love to talk will reap the consequences.
Proverbs 18:21 NLT

Life and death? How powerful our words are! A few kind words can help a friend get through a difficult situation. A thoughtful “thank you” from a child can erase a parent’s weariness after a hard day’s work. A father’s loving encouragement has the capacity to shape a son’s future. On the other hand, words used falsely, harshly or negatively have the power of death. Are you familiar with the expression, “sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me”? I completely disagree! The hurt words can inflict are deep and lingering. If you have ever been a victim of gossip, or slander you know very well that this is true.

Maybe we should take a moment today to think about how we’ve been using our words. A lot of the people around us could sure use some life-giving encouragement. In doing so, don’t be surprised if you get encouraged as well. That’s how it usually works.

(Aside form being the Pastor of WIN Ontario, Pastor Jong is also the Regional Director of Word International Ministries, Canada. He has a Certificate in Divinity Studies from Asian Theological Seminary and a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Arts from the University of Santo Tomas in the Philippines. He and his wife Nicole have a passion for serving the Lord that goes back to their days in the youth ministry.)

Good to be back to Toronto!, how’s everyone doing this week? i hope everything is fine and Dundee. Anyhow,here your weekly recap and update, last week few Young Adult including me volunteered for the youth camp to help out to cook and assist them for their activities, and we witnessed our Lord our God moved and touch our young brother and sister life, it was awesome experience and to our own surprise were also been blessed by Him..we will be posting the picture later for everyone to view how spectacular is the youth camp has been. so moving along, Sunday the rest of the young adult continued our campaign “Life matters” and they studied how can we confidently embrace this life. (titled confident), if you missed last Sunday teaching, you can do self study and go through the chapter ‘confidents” and then do the question and answer portion and share what you learned next meeting.

Our agenda for this coming week is Sunday Aug 30, 2009 we will continue our regular meet after our first service at WiMO center at 12:30pm, we will discuss our 5th week topic “know the Father”, our weekly assignment will be to read through the chapter and answerer the Q-A portion, and brother Edmund will be teaching this chapter. also i would like to remind the individual who’s been appointed for our Sunday potluck, if you do have any question please coordinate with our coordinator sister Arlene for more information. Furthermore announcement, we would like to remind everyone to bring thier $6 payment for the “life matters” personal booklet, also if you haven’t received one please come approach me or edmund so we can give you a copy.. so that’s all for now folks, i hope everyone have a wonderfully week.

PS: if you would like to view the pix for the Youth camp, click on these link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/winontario/sets/72157622146689808/

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/album.php?aid=115966&id=503371244&ref=nf

The theme for this year’s camp is “WE WIN!” The focus will be on becoming the winner God wants us to be based on Romans 8:37. “No, despite all these things, overwhelming victory is ours through Christ, who loved us.”

Elora Gorge offered something for everyone – some went hiking to enjoy nature while others took a nap, some played games while others enjoyed the company of friends. One thing is for sure – everyone enjoyed the day…