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Click here to read more about Outtatown’s privileged opportunity to visit with Nobel Peace Prize recipient Archbishop Desmund Tutu! This was truly an honour to meet with the man who is widely respected across the world as “the moral conscience of South Africa”.

Check out the Site 1 blog to read about the Monterrico beach weekend and other recent events. Click here.

We are grateful for an amazing first semester which has now come to an end.

Praise God for the safe driving conditions today!  We have been in contact with the groups as they travel east back to Winnipeg today, and below are the most current estimated arrival times for the various groups (give or take 20 mins):

Site 1 – Guatemala: approx 11pm arrival

Site 2 – South Africa: approx 12pm arrival

Site 3 – South Africa: approx 11pm arrival

Site 4 – French Africa: WestJet Flight 299 from Toronto, 7:34pm arrival (on time)

Family & friends who are arranging pickup (Sites 1-3) can wait in South Side Campus lounge near chapel (600 Shaftesbury Blvd. – south of Grant Ave). 

Family & friends of Site 4, we’ll see you at the airport pickup!

Join us at CMU on Sunday December 11th for Outtatown’s French Africa End of Semester Celebration!

Click here for invite…

Our group of Site 4 students continue to make Outtatown history as they travel to places the program has never been before.  We just got word that they have arrived in Burkina Faso and have enjoyed their first Burkinabe meal (apparently it was really good). 

In other incredible news from Sites 1-3: Site 2 just completed their Vancouver Urban Plunge and early reports say it was a stretching, sometimes uncomfortable and very worthwhile experience for them.  Site 3 is journeying to Vancouver to begin their Urban Plunge after just finishing their time in Alberta with Terry LeBlanc as their instructor, which we’ve already been hearing some excellent reviews.    And Site 1 is getting ready to head to Seattle after recently experiencing tours of tunnels, a day of silence, and some instruction days with Brad Fuller and Steve Klassen.

This travel update brought to you by your friendly Outtatown office!

Yesterday (Sunday Oct 2) – sites 1,2 and 3 were all on CMU campus for the afternoon and evening.  It was fantastic to see them and be able to hear some positive updates as to how things are going so far.  After surviving the cold and wind of the canoe trip, there have been many great urban plunge experiences, stories of fun times as a group, many hours in the vans, and quality times with instructors.  The afternoon on Sunday for the students consisted of a tour of the CMU campus for those that were interested, so that they could hear more about the University campus and what may be a great option for them after they have completed their Outtatown experience.  In the evening the students participated in the MUD cafe (Missions Under Discussion), hosted at CMU and put on by Carol Letkemen and Lisa Derksen with MB Missions.  Kent Dueck from Inner City Youth Alive was the speaker and Jamie Niven was the worship leader for the evening.   One of my highlights of the day was an opportunity to connect with the site leaders – we shared prayer requests, praise items, and just had a chance to spend a bit of time together with the leaders from these 3 sites.  God is definitely at work in their lives, and the stories they shared of the lives of their students.  I was once again encouraged by their love for their students, and their excitement in the journey that God is inviting them on. After the evening activites the sites once again took off, sites 2 & 3 back to their camp locations for the week, and site 1 to their urban plunge experience in Winnipeg. 

Cam Priebe, Director of Outtatown

Outtatown’s fall semester officially kicked off this past Sunday Sept. 11th!  We are grateful to God for a great group of leaders and students – Outtatown’s largest student group ever at 106!  Current student photos and links to each site’s blog are coming soon!

Browse our new site to get familiar where the information is now.  In the future you can check in here to find updates on the sites as they travel.

New for Fall 2011! Fully bilingual French Africa program. A new four month discipleship program option that will focus on French language, culture and church ministries. The program will be one-semester in length offered for the first time in the fall of 2011. Significant opportunities to connect with ministries and geographical locations that lead to understandings of Islam.

Outtatown 2011/2012 starts on September 11, 2011. See you then bright and early ready to travel fifteen hours!