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The theme of SOAR Heartland 2007 was GPS - God Pleasing Song. We were challenged to spend time listening to God in silence, in the words of others, in people that we met, and in everything we experienced each day. Below are sound bytes from Heartland participants and others involved in the program.
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Hosting SOAR Heartland |
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Pastor Elton DaSilva of the Christian Family Centre in Winnipeg was our host for SOAR Heartland 2007. The church served as a home base for the program.
It is hard to believe that it is over. The serenity and quietness of normal church business, somehow seems wrong. For ten consecutive days I was greeted by loud music and shouting youngsters. My days ended with the rhythm of drums and the distortions of a guitar; not to mention the shoes... my Lord the shoes!
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Pounding the Pavement - With Prayer |
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Nearly 200 members of the Mennonite faith community toured parts of Winnipeg’s North End and downtown in hopes the power of prayer would lead them to a better understanding of the problems faced by people that live in the area.
The day-long March 23 urban adventure, titled Soar Heartland (SH), had people travelling in teams of four and marking their tour by taking photos of where they’ve been and matching graffiti on buildings to a sheet provided to them by SH organizers.
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Team Leader Perspective |
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"SOAR Heartland has blessed my spring break for the last four years! SOAR has opened my eyes up to many things such as: the power of prayer, what worship is, and the need for mission right here in our own country. This past year on SOAR, God really filled me up. It was after a worship service, where I was able to say “God my life is yours, ALL YOURS!” I have never felt the Joy that I was feeling in that moment, the Joy that only God can give. Through these experiences God began to burden my heart for the children of the North End. He has given me dreams to reach out to not only the kids but, the parents, because that is where it all starts. SOAR has given me the drive to a life of ministry, wherever God takes me."
- Paul Peters
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A Ministry Partner's Perspective |
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SOAR HEARTLAND has been coming to Bethlehem Aboriginal Fellowship for the last five years. We have been so blessed to have the youth from Blumenort Mennonite Church come every year, lead by Dave and Erica Rempel. This team has faithfully come out, planned and prepared their hearts to love and serve our community. It hasn’t always been easy. There are a lot of hard issues to deal with when you work with kids living in the inner city, things that kids growing up in the country don’t have to face and have to come to grips with. What is really neat is that this team and their church have been committed to coming back each year and desire to partner with BAF. They have seen the need to walk out their faith in new ways that have really stretched them out of their comfort zone.
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Report from a First Time Volunteer & Team Leader |
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The opening chords of SOAR Heartland rang out loud and exuberant on the afternoon of Thursday the 22nd of March. Over two hundred people, predominately youth, made their way into Winnipeg's Christian Family Centre with sleeping bags and supplies in tow, preparing to spend their next ten days serving and discovering their GPS (God Pleasing Song).
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