Friday, March 24

Friday morning after morning devotions I attended a workshop called "When Boundaries are Necessary, Even Liberating" led by Brian Walsh from Toronto. It explored the feeling surrounding boundaries at work, play, life, socializing, class boundaries, color boundaries, etc. I guess I wanted to attend this workshop to see what boundaries would be necessary for leading a group in a church and how to form relationships with others while still recognizing boundaries. I really would like to work with youth/teens in a church someday. I'd love to be youth Bible Study leaders with my husband in our church. Boundaries would be necessary in our leadership. We defined what a boundary is and how it plays out, but also went through Isaiah 58 to use as a guide in reflecting on boundary management....
It was also cool that Brian was canadian. I heard another distinctively Canadian term: "Holy Smokes" from this U of Toronto campus Pastor. Nice guy.
The participants in the class were from all over as well...a good mix of color and denominations as well.

Friday evening, supper was hosted by the Chicago Semester at a church down the street. The chicken was cold, and I felt bad for any vegetarians in the house because all they could eat was potato salad and buns, but it was a free meal. We heard an excellent speaker, Adam Taylor, from Washington DC, and he encouraged us to recognize our power as youth and use it for justice. It started out as a sermon, then ended up as a talk and invitation to recognize our callings as Christians to stand for justice. Adam works with SOJOURNERS, a political/justice based organization in the US. Quite popular with the CS students.

Friday night I went up north to a hair show that was going on. I wanted to see some of the girls that I did a show with a few weeks ago and just get in touch with them again. Also, a Chicago Semester guy was in the show. He had fun.