The Beginning of the End

Well this as been an Incredible Experience for all 50 of us Asburians that are up here. Today Feb. 25th was the last day for the ski jump venue where Asbury currently has 5 students working there. This hereby marks the beginning of the end. Starting at 1:15am Friday morning our first Asburian leaves Whistler, over the next 5 days the 50 of us will leave at different times. You would think this would be a bittersweet time being that our work is over and we can go back to life as it was. Well it is actually much more of a bitter ending as many of us have met and made friends with people from other countries who we will probably never see again. In talking with a friend about all this the biggest thing tugging at our hearts as this all wraps up is, were we a good example of Christ? Did we show anyone Christ? These are questions that we may never know the answers to until we get to heaven. We have all loved the experience we have had up here, we have had great times and yes there have been a few bad times but all in all this is something we will never forget for the rest of our lives. As we begin to leave we realize that we have to make another culture change. Now you may think "culture change? but you're going back to the states." Well yes we are, but we are going back to Asbury which is a culture all on it's own in a good way. We have gotten use to the way of life up here finally and now it's almost time to go back so I would ask those reading this to please pray for all of us as we start the end of our stories. Like I said we have one person leaving Whistler at 1:15am friday morning and the last one to leave does not leave until Tuesday Afternoon, I leave Sunday night on a red eye. Please pray for us as we travel back to school with very little or no sleep and pray for us as we make another adjustment in our lives and tell our stories to friends and families back in the states