Happy Birthday!
Wow.. Another birthday came... and went. I feel like I celebrated my birthday all week long! I am very blessed. It began with my mum coming down to shop and have supper on tuesday, and then a surprise birthday blessing from the Grace Harvest Youth Group on Thursday Night- followed by my roomates making me a Truffle and singing me happy birthday first thing in the morning. Mmmmm....there's nothing like dessert to get the day started! As I get older (not that

I'm old! haha) I realize I just want to be surrounded by people I love...forget birthday cakes, I just want to be with other people. In the morning (I had school all day of course) we played "Sorry" in Ethics class. However there were many different twists to the game. In the first game (below), Kara and I played together with the same rules and this was to demonstrate that we were on the same team- We were the "Christians." In the room next to us Rob, Jessie and Sarah were also playing a game of "Sorry" using different rules that Kara and I didn't know. After we were all finished playing Kara and I played Rob, Jessie and Sarah using the rules from our first game. Rob, Jessie and Sarah represented another religion. So here we are- Kara and I are allowed to bump people off of a square and send them back to the start if we land on them but their rules say that they are allowed to have two game pieces on one square at one time, so war literally broke out! Little did we know, but the teacher had secretly asked Rob to be a terroist- so he was moving our game pieces back without us knowing, or moving his pieces extra spaces. In our third game we were all fending for ourselves and were allowed to so called "cheat"... aka "do war." It was really interesting and helped give me a pratical understanding of what we're studying in class. We're reading "Christianity in an Age of Terrorism" By Gene Edward Veith and have been talking about 9-11 and "What is Jihad." It's been really interesting. The above picture is from our first game- I'm the blue pieces! In the evening I travelled to Fredericton with Jessie and Kara and hung out with Jessie and Al for abit then met up with my mum. Afterwards I went to Matt and Chrissies- they're kids are getting huge! I got to spend time with them and Danica and Chuck- woooooo- I miss my Fredericton family!
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  Birthday date with my mum
My mum came up afterschool today to celebrate an early birthday. We went shopping, ate dinner, ate cheesecake, and opened presents! Thanks mum!  ¶ 6:06 PM 0 comments

  Community Night
Welcome to Taylor College Community Life. Tonight to kinda restore and build a sense of community in the campus we had a "family" worship time, followed by a community meal and then some board games and cards. I decided to try solid food and I think it was entertainment for many people. It was good to meet with my peers outside of study time in a more relaxed environment. God has really been stretching me this year, in the words of Reed Fleming, "God put each of you here to kill each other." We pull the best and the worst out of each other.

"Then he said to them all: "If anyone would come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it." Luke 9:23-24


This is Christian, Kara and Joey and Jen- students and friends from school and from back home. Joey we see your food!

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  Currently Reading.. This is currently the book I'm reading "Living Proof- Sharing the Gospel Naturally" By Jim Peterson.. it has totally revolutionized the way I think about evangelism. Read it. I just finished reading a chapter on "the fact of isolation" and it was just talking about how so many Christians shut themselves off from the world after they get "saved."
Here's a little quote, "This process of isolation I've just described is so common today that few Christians have meaningful relationships with nonbelievers. It has been observed that the average Christian has no nonChristian friends after he's been a believer for two years. Our contact with the world is then limited to casual acquaintances. We need to relearn how to build relationships with people outside our normal circle of Christian involvment."
Yikes.. this is something for me to really think about.  ¶ 5:03 PM 0 comments

  Webmaster?

Plans are currently underway for the next TEC. One of my on-going roles in TEC is to maintain the webpage. Now- I'm not going to lie to you, when I started I had no sweet clue what I was doing. My good friend David Fleming has been very patient with me and I am learning bit by bit how to maintain the website. Last night, upon discoving that the old website couldn't be modified, we decided to make a brand new one. I have so much to learn! The new address is www.tecnb.net/home.htm The old web site however is still active at www.tecnb.net The above photo is the new steering committee- meeting at our "secret location." Check out the TEC website!  ¶ 11:58 AM 0 comments

  Standing firm..
"It if for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery."


Here's today's beef. I'm always sick. I mean it. I am AlWAYS sick. I know I drive my friends and family crazy because I am always the one crashing the fun because I am puking or have a high fever. Since I have moved to Saint John (I promise there's something in the water here), I've had bleeding ulcers in my stomach, been diagnosed with depression with manic "tendencies" (what a load) and am currently sitting home with a slugglish fever and a cold. There's always a different ache..there's always something out of place. Church I need strategy! I don't get it! The harder I press into the heart of God the more random the sickness gets.. sometimes it makes me laugh, I feel like Satan says "How can I make Erin sick today?" And then closes his eyes and randonly picks something to make me feel like junk. I don't have all the tools and wisdom to figure this out but I know who does.

"For though we live in the world, we do wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of this world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds. We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ."

I'm ready to contend. Church take back what belongs to you.  ¶ 5:56 PM 1 comments

  "The Word Of the Lord...Thanks Be To God"
These are my friends Christian Gowan and Joshua Henry. Christian and Joshua led some Jamican style worship this morning. Joshua also was the prayer leader as he led in Morning Prayer. Christian is a second year officer in training and Joshua is in second year as well but will be graduating this year and returning to Jamica to be posted with Church Army.



Every Morning at School we gather for a time of worship, prayer, confession and intercession. On Friday mornings we have a traditional Anglican Morning prayer service using The Book Of Alternative Services. This morning I was asked to be the "reader." Every morning at school we read two sections of scripture (usually two chapters), one from the Old testament and one from the New testament. The readings are assigned from a book called a "lectionary" (if you're Anglican.. this is all everyday mumbojumbo....but I'm not.. so this was all new to me). If you follow the lectionary you end up reading the whole bible in a year. What a cool idea eh? Anyways, here comes the bad news... one of my assigned readings was Genesis 14... Check out these words..."Ampraphel," "Arioch," Zeboiim," "Chedorlaomer," "Rephaim," "Ashteroth," "Kiriathaim." These are just some....it made for a very humbling experience. Another morning....another opportunity to grow.  ¶ 11:35 AM 1 comments

  Those who lack wisdom...should ask One Week Later and I'm looking much better! I have a normal face! My diet is still very bland- the stitches prevent me from eating anything that requires chewing! Thanks to all who prayed... much is just a fog now. Have a Blessed Weekend!



I caved, and became a "blogger." What can ya do? I've spent the past week in bed admiring other people's blogs and personal spaces and decided it could be potentially realistic to attempt one myself. I thought to kick start the whole thing I would scare you all with this lovely picture! I just had my wisdom teeth removed...(All four). It was the most miserable experience of my life- one that thankfully I do not have to relive. Thanks to mom for the wide variety of popsicles, fudgicles, icecreams, movies and for the use of the couch! Much appreciated!  ¶ 11:37 PM 2 comments