Devotional on Acts 4:29-31

Text: Acts 4: 29 - 31

"And now Lord, listen to their threats.  Lord, help us, your servants, to speak your word without fear.  Help us to be brave by showing us your power to heal.  Give proofs and make miracles happen by the power of Jesus, your holy servant."  After they had prayed, the place where they were meeting was shaken.  They were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and they spoke God's word without fear.

Devotional:

This moring I was reading the first 4 chapters of Acts and have read all of Acts before.  As I came to this passage, I was thinking  by now Peter and John where already given a hard time for the first time by the Priests, Pharasees and the rest of the High Cousel for healing the crippled/lame man in Jesus Name and preaching to the crowed in the temple, and I know from here on in the persecution just gets worse.

What I come to the conclusion, is that we here in North America as Christians generally have it so good.  If my faith were threatened like in the passage from Acts, how would it hold up?  How equipped would I be to give the right answer when challenged?  Would I be willing to spend a night in jail for my faith?  Sometimes I think we as a society even as Christian don't realize how spoiled we are.  We have so many things to rely on (especially non-believers), that we think we don't need God or God often comes in second or third.  I know in my life it is like that most of the time.  So if I am to give God my all, how much does he require of me?  How much am I willing to give?

From being a new Christian on at the age of 13 or 14 I asked myself:  If all these miraculous things where happening in the book of Acts, and today it is the same Holy Spirit available with the same power for us to extend to others, why isn't more happening?  Or at least that's how I feel.  And I think it is because we, even I rely on so many other things than God, where in a 3rd World country God is most of the time if not all of the time all they have and God shows up, like in the book of Act.

I pray for all of us who need it that we can be open to more of God and less of us and our materialism in our lives (John 3:30).

University of Guelph till now

Hello all it's me once again after a long time.

Tonight I was copying some imformation that I submitted to be added into the Alumni Today 2012 Directory book from the University of Guelph.  I graduated there a little over 10 years ago.  I borrowed the book from a friend of mine who bought the book.  I didn't buy the book because the cost was $100.00, and that was simply way too much especially now that I've looked at it and see how little I would have gotten out of it.  But so after a few months of borrowing the book I finally decided to type out the information I submitted and I thought I could share it here.  By the way that friend said I can borrow the book for as long as I want, but I thought if it's just laying around at home I better get around to type out the information that's important to me and finally return it.  It's one less book laying around in my appartment!  So here's the info I submitted and how it appeared in the directory listing:

EIGENHEER, Markus; DAGR; Cert. Mohawk Clg.; Admin. Support, Christian Horizons West Dist. Ofc., Ste. 101, 4275 King St. E., Kitchener, ON N2P 2E9, 519 650-3241; r:3-768 Stirling Ave. S., Kitchener, ON N2M 3K3, 519 570-9068, marceigenheer@hotmail.com

What’s Been Happenig: After I graduated the University of Guelph 10 years ago I moved to Brampton for a short time, than Hamilton for 2 ½ years and have been living and volunteering/working in Kitchener for the last 6 years I both work and volunteer at Christian Horizon at the West District Office and volunteer at the YMCA.  At Christian Horizons I do Office Admin. Support work.  Data entry and answering the phone, and at the YMCA, I help with folding Towles for the change rooms.  I’m still single and glad to be single at this time.  I also go once a week to visit my sister and her husband as well as their two little daughters 2 and 4years old on the Liebenzell Center by Moffat South East of Guelph.  They are property Managers and Guest Hosts of a 45 acre property for groups to come and have retreats and training.  There’s  always a lot of work to be done, like cutting grass in the summerand splitting wood for fire wood in the winter and and everything in between, like maintaining a natural skating pond.  So I do a lot of volunteering and get my main income from ODSO and some from Christian Horizons and other small sources.

DAGR – Associate Diploma in Agriculture

Baby duckies survive treacherous highway crossing | Sympatico.ca News

Hello everyone

I saw this amazing video clip of a duckling family crossing a busy highway and was amazed.
I thought I had to blog it.  I hope it works.

Cheers,

Markus

Baby duckies survive treacherous highway crossing | Sympatico.ca News

Hanging up Bird Feeders

This past Wednesday I was back at the Liebenzell Center Volunteering.  In the late morning and afternoon Jeff, 2 other volunteers and I were working on building and placing those bird feeders.  They turned out quite well.

Just so you know, because this blog appears at the very top of the webpage, it is not the only blog I wrote today.  If you scroll down, you'll see that I wrote two blogs today.

Christmas and into the New Year 2012

This year as usual I spent the Christmas weekend with mom and dad and for the 23rd in the evening with Glausers, a swiss family we are close to.  However, for the first time ever this year, I felt a need to go back to Kitchener to my own apartment and space from the 26th to the 30th and go back up to mom and dad's for new year's as a seperate weekend.  It felt great, because other years I would spend 10 days at mom and dad's and coming back to Kitchener after that was a big shock.  Also I had more independence.  I went for coffee with a friend of mine on the 28th for a few hours, and at my pastor's house on the 29th I watched "Lord of the Rings" all three movies for a total of almost 9 1/2 hour watching time with breaks in between.  We started at 9:30 am and finished at 7:40 pm.  I was so tired after that.

Over the New Years weekend I went up north to mom and dad again and Ursi with Jeff, Katie and Maya were there too.  We ate chest nuts, played Carcasonne, ate Meat Fondeoue with home grown and cut french fries (the best you can have) and watched 3 episodes of season 7 ER, and before you know it it was 12:00 AM.  2012.

Katie and Maya had lots of fun opening gifts and playing with Grossvati (my dad).
And Grossvati always has lots of fun playing with Katie and Maya.

On January 1st Jeff and I went to the Waldkaffi (Trailer and Fireplace in the bush down by the river).

I should mention that I got a new digital camera from mom and dad for Christmas.

So I'm really excited about it and have lots to learn and take pictures of when I can and use them.

Anyways's that was my Christmas and New Year Season and now I'm back in the swing of things.

I hope you all had a great Christmas season too.

Samichlaus Party

Hello all

Here I am once again.  Today a week ago, we had our 6th annual Samichlaus Party at my apartment.  Mom and Dad, Jeff, Ursi, Maya and Katie all came to my apartment once again for soup, peanuts, oranges, chocolate, hot chocolate and many more goodies.  Mom did a really great job at getting all the bags together for everyone.    Maya and Katie had fun playing on my bed and looking at my electric fish aquarium and deciding which fish is Nemo.  It's basically pictures of an underwater world turning around in a circle on wheels.  Maya and Katie wanted to know what everything was in my apartment, like my big stuffed animal snake and play with it.  Unfortunately my neighbour Bruce couldn't come at last day's notice, but I still gave him the Samichlaus bag that mom made for him and he really enjoys it.  I was going to post some pictures but unfortunately as I was fumbeling around with my camera I hit the wrong button to format the camera which meant I lost all my pictures.  I accidentally deleted all of them.  Fortunately the memories will still be there and loosing the pictures is not the end of the world.

Last Sunday during the day, I also played with the Swiss Farmer Band at our last event of the year at the Kitchener Christkindle Market which is a Market that went on for four days.  We just had to play for an hour Sunday afternoon.  Now we have our winter break till end of March.

Monday I had my Christmas Dinner at Christian Horizons where I work, and Tuesday a Christmas Party from the organization where I get home support from.

Last Sunday at my apartment, mom said that she has a Christmas present I can already open that day.  I had absolutely no clue what it was.  Last year Rob (a young man in his twenties who lives in this apartment building as well), gave me a little Christmas Tree which looked so nice, except the lights didn't work on it.  Mom and dad tried to fix the lights for me without success last year.  Now this year  mom put a whole new strand of lights in rather than just the bulbs, and some new decorations (if I remember correctly).  And now I have my very own special Christmas tree just the right size for my apartment.  It looks so beautiful.  Thank you mom!!!  I have it on as a night light every night now.

I don't know when I'll be writing next, but I hope it will be soon.  Till then take care, and have a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Markus

What I do at Christian Horizons

Tasks at the West District Office

Christian Horizons

Markus Eigenheer

March 2011

Position: Administration Support

Past Tasks:

Ø      Submit my own paid hours until a new way of submitting hours started.

Ø      Edit contact information into No-Letters for people who didn’t get their job

Ø      Enter Serious Occurrences Summaries

Ø      Enter Behaviour Colour plot for individual for Behavioural Therapist

Ø      Help create small pictures of movies for an individual – Help – Behaviour Therapist

Ø      Burn individual case files on CD’s from previous Behaviour Therapist

Ø      Type up miscellaneous documents and memos

Ø      Do Laminating

Ø      Change the Server Room Computer Back-up tape every day I’m here

Ø      Giving Direction to the Bathroom

Current Tasks:

Ø      Everyday first thing bring mail over to Corporate Office and pick up mail

Ø      Answer and Transfer incoming phone calls

Ø      Greet and direct people

Ø      Enter resume contact information into Applicant database

Ø      Read and submit O/I’s (Occurrences/Incidents) Summaries via the internet

Ø      Submit my own volunteer hours over the internet
Ø            Enter other volunteer’s hours every month into a spread sheet that I designed

Ø      Record my own paid and volunteer hours in an Excel spreadsheet

Ø      Create reference forms packages – letter, 2 employment forms, 1 pastoral form

Ø      Create Interview packages – 2 sets of interview questions, 1 written scenario

Ø      Help with mass mailings

Ø      Label file folders for Corporate Office once a year

Ø      Help labeling file folders

Ø      Help filing Serious Occurrences

Ø      Photocopy miscellaneous documents

Ø      Check my Christian Horizons e-mail account

Ø      Clean up Work room

Ø      Sweep Kitchen and Workroom

Ø      Giving Direction to the Bathroom

Ø      Cleaning Coffee machine and Coffee pot at the end of each day I’m here

Include a few sentences of things you enjoy doing in the office and also include a few things you have difficulty doing or would prefer not to do.

I enjoy entering contact information into the Applicant Database and submitting O/I’s via the Internet and doing any computer related tasks basically.

What I enjoy less doing is mass photocopying and putting photocopied packages together it becomes too overwhelming.  I also don’t enjoy when I have no work for hours at a time.

Write a paragraph or two about yourself to introduce yourself (example – your likes and dislikes, your personality, what you like about working at Christian Horizons, and anything else you might think is important).

Hi, my name is Markus Eigenheer but I go by Marc.  I enjoy working here at the West District of Christian Horizons because of the Christian atmosphere and how I’m cared for and appreciated.  I feel that I could go to anyone here about anything in case of emergency.  I enjoy being at the front desk computer and answering phone calls and greeting people and labeling things.

I work best when I have guidance in certain things and someone to go to for support when I don’t know what to do.  I also work best when there is a routine that is familiar to me.  I love typing up documents and doing data entry!  On a typical day, first thing I do is carry mail across King Street too the Head Office (Corporate Office), and bring back any mail they have for us the West District Office.  From there I check my e-mails, and record how many hours I work that day in an Excel Spread Sheet.  After that I check if there are any O/I’s to submit, and how many resumes (contact information) there is to enter into the Applicant Database.  Depending on whether there are more O/I’s or more resumes, I do one or the other first.  With the O/I’s if they are no sufficient, I submit them into the follow up folder.  After that’s done I ask the Office Administrator and other people what other tasks there are for me to do.  At the end of the day, I wash out the coffee machine and coffee pot before I leave.

I live here in Kitchener on my own in a junior bachelor apartment and take the bus to and from work.  I work 3 days a week in the afternoon, one of which I get paid for and that day is Tuesday (Monday and Thursday are volunteer hours and are more flexible for when I come and go).  Monday and Thursday I usually work from between 1:00 pm – 2 pm and leave at 4:45 pm.  On Tuesday I work from 12:45 pm – 4:45 pm.  On Wednesday I volunteer for my Brother-in-Law, and on Friday I volunteer folding towels at the YMCA here in Kitchener, so I’m busy Monday – Friday.

I often struggle with feeling lonely, anxiety, depression and obsessive-compulsive disorder.  I also struggle to take the courage to connect with others and new people.  I often isolate myself.  My hobby is watching TV Shows on DVD which I have my own library full.  Another area I struggle with is having the willingness and courage to cook for myself but my support from social workers in that area comes from Waterloo Regional Homes for Mental Health.

Last Updated: August 2009