mardi, septembre 11, 2007

The Past Week.

A couple of things here:
1. The amount of French that I can speak and that I can understand grows everyday. Praise God!
2. I met with Matt and he said that maybe in the last month or so, I will relocate to another place as far as Montreal to get a get a feel for the diversity of the ministries that are in Quebec. However, it is all still up in the air, so please pray that I will know what I am doing after I finish Laval.

Sunday was pretty eventful because I got a chance to share a meal with the church that I am with. (For those who are curious, I attend Église Évangélique du Berger; it is one of the three Alliance churches in Quebec City.) It was a "Barbeque". By barbeque, I mean that we had chips and corn on the cob. It was a good experience for me because I got to connect with some of the church people here and for the most part like anywhere else, I tried speaking in French. It was different for me because I am usually accustomed to attending Barbeque with some kind of meat involved. Nevertheless, I thought it was cool and the corn here seems to taste better than in Alberta.

As part of my ministry opportunities here, I have to interview some pastors about their ministry, what God is teaching, advice for an intern, etc. I got a chance to sit down with one of the pastors at du Berger today. After we talked for about 2 hrs, I came home and wrote down everything that I could remember. One of the questions that I had for him was: "how do you adapt to a different culture?" He quoted Arnold Cook (Former CMA President) "Wherever you are...be all there". Which meant that in order to adapt a different culture the quickest, attitude and actions must conform to the new culture. So what the pastor did was that he would speak English only at home, and whenever he encounters a Francophone, he would speak French to them. It was a good reminder to me and anyone else who is doing cross-cultural work.

Random things
The picture that you see belowis a ring-ish kind of shape. It is also broken, because it is supposed to be in my mouth. This bracket in my braces broke a couple of weeks ago. Today, I got it out because it felt uncomfortable. I hope that this doesn't really affect my teeth.

posted by Willyz @ 6:17 p.m.