The First Snowboard Club

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MRD (Mountain Riders Discipleship) is a club that I am apart of here at Trinity. We are different than most clubs though. Many just have BBQs and a couple of meetings every once and a while, but we are pretty active. Every Thursday we have Snake Pit. That is basically just our main meeting. Here we play games, hang out, have a bible study, worship, plan events and pray for each other. It is really a fun time we have gotten pretty close. Monday night Boone and some other guys runs Skate Club. They pick up some local kids that they know form the Murrayville park and drive them around to different skate parks. I wish I could do it more, but I always end up having class then. The kids are so crazy and rad. They also usually have a Club Talk (devotional, lesson thing). Besides that, sometimes we do other things in the community, like or annual Jib Jam and other skate competitions, usually geared towards the skater/snowboarder crowd. And of course we hang out together and go snowboarding (when there is snow). This year we decided we wanted to do more ministry with the snowboarding thing. We have been piecing a bunch of ideas together and came up with Snowboard Club. Through connections made with Street-E (a street evangelism ministry run by Trinity students in East Hastings, Vancouver) we decided to take young guys up to the mountain with our VIP passes and a bunch of gear that we have collected from everyone. The only problem is that we haven't had any snow. Well Seymour got 15 cm and Brian convinced me to go with him today and do it. We picked up two guys, Gabriel and Mike, at the Union Gospel Mission Youth Drop In Centre in Van and went up to Seymour. Unfortunately only the rope tow was open but it was still good. Mike was pretty crazy and didn't like to have us teach him. He just liked to go straight down the hill until he fell. It looked like he was getting pretty beat up, but he seemed to have fun. He will get it eventually. Gabriel had been six times before when he lived in Banff, so he was pretty good. I got him started on doing this little jump on the side of the run, and that is basically all we did the whole afternoon. We got to know each other and next time we will probably be able to have more conversation. It wasn't that awkward though. I even got to have a talk with Gabriel. In my worship class we are talking a lot about postmodernism and our post-Christian culture. I am starting to see it more and more. Our conversation was just like the examples in the book. I was talking to him about how I go to Trinity and how it is a Christian school. So he asked me if I was a Christian and I said yes and we talked about that and then I asked him if he was into any religious stuff. And like a typical postmodern he said, no I am not into any religious stuff, but I am spiritual. I asked him what kind of stuff and he said yoga and some other things like that. Textbook example. I don't know, I think I am starting to agree with a lot of this emerging church stuff. If you dont know anything about it you should read some. It is very interesting and if it is true, it is the future of any successful ministry. Brian also got to talk to Mike for a little bit over a hot dog. The whole thing went pretty well and I am excited to do it again. If you remember, please keep this ministry in your prayers as we try to get it off the ground.