This week at YWAM Hockey ...

Glen and Lorrain are preparing for a scouting trip out East.

Krista and Mackenzie are back to work following some time off after Hockey DTS. They will be blitzing the Lower Mainland with brochures and posters for our AIA/YWAM Hockey camp in Langley.

Here is a listing for our camps for this summer.

Peace River Bible Institute Hockey Camp - Grande Prairie, AB
YWAM Hockey Camp - Pr. George, BC
AIA/YWAM Hockey Camp - Langley, BC
YWAM Hockey Camp - Kelowna, BC
AIA Vancouver Island Camp - Chemainus, BC
Winkler Bible Camp - Winkler, Manitoba

We are excited about camp registrations already for these camps. For dates and more information click on the following link -
ywam hockey camps

YWAM hockey team
by Matthew Marshall

Matthew Marshall would like to thank Jesus to the Nations for their generous financial support of his YWAM (Youth with a Mission) hockey mission trip.
Matt first picked up a YWAM Hockey brochure at the Halifax J2N conference in 2005. The dream was born and in September 2007 Matt headed to Vancouver, B.C. as the goaltender for the YWAM hockey team. Over the next three months Matt attended YWAM’s Discipleship Training School with the rest of the team and students from all over the world. In late December the hockey team headed off to Russia to begin two months of outreach there. Besides hockey camps for kids, they visited orphanages, schools, universities and churches, thus fulfilling their vision of seeing hockey coaches and players come alive for Christ and bringing God’s transforming power to rinks around the world.
Thanks again, J2N.

The above article is from the Jesus to the Nations 2008 Website. Jesus to the Nations is Atlantic Canada's Mission Conference

So Where Do We Go From Here?

Here we are for our wind-up dinner with our great Russian friends in Zakamsk. One more opportunity to enjoy Momma Luba's amazing cooking and hospitality. Our hats go off to our American boys, Wesley and Brian, for putting up with being called "Canadians" for 2 months.

We wrapped up our debrief last week and finished off DTS with a wonderful graduation dinner and very difficult "see you later's". You see, we don't actually say "goodbye" in YWAM because in all likelihood we will be seeing each other again somewhere down the road ... sometimes sooner ... sometimes later ...
We are so very thankful to have been given the privledge of working with this DTS team - both staff and students. Forever these young lives have made an imprint on our hearts. We love you guys! And remember ... "Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart .... "

Looks like it's time to go home

Things won't be quite the same around YWAM Perm now that the "hockey boys and girl" have gone home. We were thrilled not to pay any of the infamous "airport tax" at the Perm airport as we left. We had a long but good flight.
What an amazing team this was. Such good sports. So willing to share their lives. We are so proud of them all. They didn't "leave anything on the table".

Youth Prison Visit

Our last outing as a team was very special - we were invited to a youth prison about 1 hour out of Perm. Our team played hockey with some of the boys on their outdoor ice and then we had opportunity to share in a meeting setting. These boys range in age from 13 to 18 and can be in the facility for up to 10 years. What we saw was a group of very young guys who had made some poor decisions in their lives which ultimately cost them their freedom. Over 200 of them listened intently as our host Igor, who had spent 21 years in the Russian prison system, gave them a message from the "lifers" in the men's prison to change their ways while they still could. Wesley, Alex, and Glen also had opportunity to speak into their lives and offer them hope. The boys responded eagerly. It was a very powerful meeting.