Kaylee Johnson's Kaléo Ministry Blog

     The making of a Masterpiece       The past three weeks have been fairly intense, and my world has mostly revolved around the Old Testament creative project.  For anyone who is not immersed in Kaleo Culture, every year, as an assignment, the Kaleo students are tasked with creating an "imaginative, well-written presentation of the Old Testament" in the form of a director's cut movie. This assignment is entirely student led, and usually fairly stressful for all those involved. We set a vision, write a script, find props, locations, film and edit. We had been warned with nightmares of 16 hour film days on top of classes, and class fights with impacts lasting weeks, and it was due November 19th, a day that was steadily creeping up on us.     November 2nd in the midst of Love Crofton, the directors for the annual Kaleo Old Testament film were announced. Korey came to the front of the class and called four names. David Tilroe, Nolan Gartly...

       The first week of November was crazy! Just as our Youth and Camp Ministry course was winding down, and our Introduction to the Old Testament course was winding up, we were presented with an amazing opportunity to serve the residents of our community.       Love Crofton, is an annual event that is a partnership between Warmland Church and Camp Qwanoes through the Kaléo program. For three days, us students put aside our own schedules and responsibilities of course work, to do yard work in the community we are living in. The week was challenging and rewarding. We experienced everything from being dropped off at the wrong address, to working hard to get the weed whacker started in the rain. Thankfully, God blessed us with an amazing leadership team, and a good friend who both lent us his pocket-knife and started up the weed whacker every 20 minutes for us (thanks Nolan!). Something that I have really enjoyed about this week, is being able to se...