Guy Week

Manly things, manly talk, manly food and manly activities. In complete honesty that’s a basic summary of guy week. Or at least that is what we would like to tell everyone, this way we seem manly. Guy week was the week where we split off from the ladies (it was a struggle for some men) and stayed in beautiful Canmore, Alberta.

Being men we had the option of climb the nearby mountain, with an elevation change of 700 metres, or to play Frisbee golf. But this was not the end of our impressive manly skills. On one night we went out in small groups to eat food, and by eat food we mean devour large portions of food. One of our groups had the most delicious poutine from La Belle Patate (go there if you ever are in Canmore, you can get a poutine with BACON!) while the other group grilled up steak back at the hotel.

We also had two wise gentlemen come and speak to us about some of those deep manly topics of life. For example, sex, relationships and what it means to be a man of God. We got the opportunity as well to fire questions off the girls, questions that were smoldering in the hearts of men. Luckily the ladies were able to give us some answers that help explain their complexity, and beauty.

Possibly the biggest highlight from the week was Saturday. If you were to have been walking around downtown Canmore, you might have seen women and girls receiving roses with the note attached “Enjoy the joy of passing it on” You might have also seen three men on a street corner with a cardboard sign reading “Want Prayer?” If you were lucky you might have even seen a talented young lad juggling! Deciding to do something different, we were sent out into Canmore in groups of 3 or 4 and had been randomly given an amount of cash with which we could use to bless Canmore. Some of the men bought roses, and when the cashiers heard of their motives they were given more roses with which to do their good deeds. The beautiful part about it was that their roses were passed on from hand to hand. People were legitimately enjoying the joy of “paying it forward.” The group standing on the street corner with their cardboard sign encountered people in unique ways too. Some skirted around them while others approached asking for prayer, or asking where they were from, still others wanted to pray and bless them. 

Guy week ended and we met up with the girls again, feeling again a tad at home in our community.