2012 Internship

So 2012, we ran our first internship internship!!! After having over 50 people on the course,5 guys teams, 2 girls only teams & one 1 autumn team, we finally offered an internship with Soul Edge! Chelsea Cannon from Canada, and Jack Follet were given the honor of taking up this role, living in the Soul Edge house! Dylan Herrington from California also joined in for the last month!-- and yep, he's coming back! YES! It was 2 months of teaching, serving the lord, deep calling to deep, mission, and ranching!

Jack was an absolute LEGEND! IF you want to chat with Jack to ask about some of his experiences first hand, drop us a line and we will hook u up! Southhampton Uni this autumn!- we have lots of SE alumni here, so its pretty exciting in the CU- check out TXT a toastie! The CU president is our Ollie Jeffs :) Chelsea is now off to IHOP in Kansas City this coming July! :) Dylan has a strong call for youth ministry on him- so we are excited to Cheer him on in this! This is a bit of what happened in our mission in Pelican Narrows from the Herbert Herald (local News paper) 'Crossroad's Church went on the annual Pelican Narrow's mission trip during the Easter break (10th-14th april). We had 24 people, including 1 baby (Caleb Erb), one brit (Soul Edge intern Jack Follet) and 1 Californian (Dylan Herrington)... We saw God move in such amazing ways, and it was great to be a part of what is happening up there- 9 hrs north. We went and ministered on the streets, and visited with the kids in the newly opened youth centre. Many of the Hebert Youth had been there before and jumped at the chance of going back. Chelsea Cannon was also excited to get to go back to pelican, after having the experience of a life time, and also getting baptized there last year with the Soul Edge team. Brandon Fast also felt that last year had really prepared him for the trip this year. Rockside builders fixed up the arena (youth Centre), with the help of many of the kids- Mike Zerebeski, Ricki Doyle, Miranda Houghian, and many others. It was incredible to see how self-sacrifical everyone was...the two littlest girls- Jesse Rose Erb and Sarah Cannon even did some of the hardest jobs- even cleaning the centre bathrooms on the first day! Harv and Bev Schulz and Rich Meyers also took time off work and were essential for making the trip work. Bev and Polly were the mom's on the team and were incredible. Harv worked incredibly hard with Josh & Richard on getting the Zamboni door looking and working like a door again so that the youth centre/arena was secure - along with patching up the cinder block wall for much of the trip (with help). A massive thank you goes out to everyone who made the trip possible- from the MCC donating baby gear for the baby shower we put on for young moms, to all the families who baked muffins, cookies, and prayed hard for the Kingdom to come! There were a number of salvations, and a whole load of love, fun and games! The Kids club we put on the saturday morning was a little crazy- by amazing all in the same breath! Huge dancing pink and green northern lights were the icing on the cake, as we were pouring our hearts out in Pelican Narrows.'

Africa 2011

Ohh yeh, and sorry for not giving any africa updates from last year!!!.....fact is, the guys were so busy and having too much fun that it was incredibly hard to nail one of them down to do things like--- "writing"! haha.... though you can find they 'did' have time to video a bunch! here is a link to one of the guys who made a montage of EPIC footage.... though for the sake of privacy, we could not use much footage of ministry - I think you get the deal! Bless y'all! here is the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OmC94jzgHmg In fact, APanacheProduction Is the offical 2011 SE team's video youtube channel... you get the gist!

Laurence's blog for part 1 of SE 2011

Laurence, our Assistant leader has his own blog at http://www.laurenceabroad.blogspot.com/ this year. This documents his journey as Fitness trainer and discipler in the Canada section of the course amidst dealing heroically with a broken collarbone!

Here is one of Laurence's posts

" Routine

So Week Two has been very fun too, though definately different. The guys have had to settle into their routines, which they have done so with great aplomb. This routine includes;

· Early up 730

· Meditation time

· Breakfast

· Morning session

· 2.5 Mile Run

· Gym

· Lunch

· Afternoon Session

· House tidy/Ranch Duties

· Dinner

· Youth Group/Kids Club/Chillout

So although great fun, hard work and long days. The guys have taken to the course really well and seem keen to learn. It's been a week of a lot of adaptation and they have done well!

So on tuesday we had our first cell group at the house, which is a youth scheme Soul Edge runs in Correlation with the local church. Tom and Josh led the worship and did very well. On Wednesday we had Kids Club at the church which was a very bizarre experience! Very hyper kids, must be all the snow! Thursday and Friday were normal teaching days.

We have eat very well as usual, this week we have had a mix of home made burgers, home made chilli, home made pizza, lentil and chicken stir fry and pasta amongst many others. We have also made our way through many classic films such as Rocky, Jurassic Park as well as the more modern films like The Prestige, Wall Street II and Iron Man 2, have also worked them very hard in the Gym and I think they are now starting to see the benefits of it, minus the blisters!

In terms of my health I hope I am doing slightly better, the collarbone is still very painful but I am moving it better, though I think thats to do with the new medicine (oramorph) as much as anything! Lets keep hoping and praying for a quick recovery! On Saturday the boys went snowboarding while I watched on from the cafe and worked on some talks of mine (I gave my first one on Monday and it went well I think) Then on Sunday we were fortunate enough to tag along Cayote hunting. Joel just missed so we were unfortunate to come back empty handed!

This week we have Gun Orientation to expect which will be fun, then a hunt at the weekend.