Create and Camp Hill

Day 3 - This is the heart of our opportunity here. Every morning we have linked with a ministry called Create. They work in the local school system teaching dance and drama. So 8 of our team are helping in making Create work. The end goal is an event that happens this Friday called Awaken. It is an event where all the students who have participated through the week come and participate in the spiritual end of things. It is a service where I will speak, and our team will perform their dramas and share testimonies.
So for 3 hours in the morning they are in rigorous training in dance and drama. We have partnered with their leadership, and Torry is taking the lead on our part. Ashton is the only guy involved with dance, and all the girls from England are enjoying that!!
The other half of the team is just down the road running a sports camp of sorts. Micah is our key leader on this one. Students from church and community are coming to play the Canadians in sports, it is a great chance to build relationships. This is a branch of Create that they have never done before. Again the goal is to push students towards the Friday event. Everett and Jazmyne went and canvassed the area with Ronnie which is why I don't have a specific picture of them today.
Carly and Josh each shared their testimony to the the crowds in both events. They did an awesome job sharing where they have come from, what God has done with them, and what He means to them. I was very proud of them for what they did.
In the afternoons we are going to a community 10 minutes away called Camp Hill. It is what we would call a Project. Run down, lower income, and alcohol and drugs everywhere. A picture you typically wouldn't think of in England (for the most part). We were instructed not to take cameras to this location yesterday, but that tomorrow we would talk further on it, so sorry for no pictures on this.
But what we did to start in Camp Hill was walking around picking garbage for a couple of hours. People everywhere were inquisitive on what was going on, who we were, so it opened many chances for us to talk. We encountered several children and students yesterday and they just wanted to hang out. So we told them all about the Canadians who will be in Camp Hill all week, to come out tomorrow and eat some Canadian food and maybe challenge us to some football (soccer).
Then in the evening we did a prayer walk around the community and distributed flyers with Christian content into several hundred homes. When evening struck the demeanor of the area changed. Spiritually speaking, it just became unruly, rude, it was an eye opener to say the least.
We finished the night by having a staple English meal - fish and chips. It was awesome.
Please pray - Taylor is pretty sick, run down - today she is taking the day off to sleep, drink fluids and relax. The home she is in - they are doctors, so she is in good care. But we also have 3 other girls in there, Carly has not been feeling well also. So pray for health, we need it. And sleep, the adjustment is has been harder than I think for our students.
And pray for our involvement in Camp Hill, like I said it really is unlike anything we have in Saskatoon, even when compared to the Westside. Will report tomorrow!!