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9 Days

Here's the 9 days fill of camps. Sorry for the long wait. I'm still in need of people partnering with me to stay here and fund myself interning with FCA Hockey. Please go to myfca account under my name, Ethan McKinley to support me. Also please do your part and share this message. God bless!
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Team FCA Camp

      This week we welcomed all the interns to Alexandria as well as campers on thursday afternoon for Team FCA and Jr. FCA. My team was with FCA Jr. Black as we went 2-1 this weekend and had 11 total campers accepted Jesus in their lives. We prepared, trained and tried our best to further the kingdom of God and making disciples.      The impact I felt was amazing and had very interactive conversations, devo talks and hockey talks with many of my team, the other FCA Jr. team and older kids that I've known since I started this 3 years ago. It was cold most of the weekend, but we got a lot accomplished and introducing a worship team with Travis, Allie and Addison. Also for the 1st time we had a junior/ youth hockey panel talking about the hockey culture and how to combat it with our faith and make it better. We watched the chosen, a tv series free to watch, about the disciples of the bible and their story within following Jesus. Games, workouts, yog...

Northstar's Last Week!

  Hello all, Today starts the last week of the school year for the u16 and u18 knights team’s. It was really cool before starting up the FCA Hockey internship to experience the repercussions of what FCA Hockey can do to a hockey community. Intentional is the word I keep hearing from people of all walks of life when telling stories of Northstar and the impact it has made. These young men have grown in the short time I’ve been a part of their playing lives, but many I’ve watched grow over the years through God’s word and purpose for their lives. It’s truly fulfilling witnessing to them and exciting for what’s to come. Now, God will be in their corner and they will have a foundation to be grounded in when times of troubles come along. For graduates, it's facing the hard reality of what Junior hockey brings and the grind that comes along with it. I pray they find the beauty in all they face and God can move through them where they end up. For returning players, preparing for next sea...

The foundation

  This place here is special. Its more than the space, the locker rooms and the school. It's more than the success this Northstar team have had. It's about the people who walk through these doors, then walking out know this place is different. This place does have the holy spirit and God's favor to spread the gospel through the hockey world by the resources used in this building. The people here are truly inspiring, not because of their wins. Their losses and struggles have motivated their passion to reach out to players, coaches, fans and even the mailman that is daily brought into the office to talk about faith and their salvation that they can receive through Jesus Christ. This team is a ministry working team wanting to learn the gospel and do their best every single day.  During the summer time, not only do we help kids and men search for Christ, but us ourselves a brothers in Christ keep sharpening ourselves, keeping discipline and growing in confidence that after the ...

Captains

Hey y'all! Hope the month of April has been very well as hockey season in youth hockey and junior hockey are coming to an end. After a very long season playing this sport, we rely on our coaches, older players on the team with playoff experience and most importantly, captains. I believe as much as coaches can change a locker room mentality, a captain can set the pace on the ice and is willing to be in the good and bad moments and help lead their team to succeed.  In the bible, there are many ‘captain’ figures leading others. Starting in the beginning of the bible with the story of Abraham. He led his people out of slavery and oppression with God’s guidance. Joseph Leads by his endurance of circumstances that came up against him, being sold to slavery by his brothers, being imprisoned to being the second man in command of the empire. Another is king David and his way to win battles and wars for God and his people. Jesus Christ, most importantly being a servant and a great leader...

Christian cup

  This week is the Christian cup, a camp for FCA Hockey I usually can’t make, but this year I got to play on the FCA Dragons. This team was filled with almost all of the Northstar and FCA Hockey front office which is know as the toughest office in the league. To start of the weekend we lost 9-7 but had a big comeback being down 6-1 at one point. Saturday morning we won 8-1 that bid us into the championship game Sunday morning. Then a great testimony from Bobby Robbins, a great man of God and a strong man. He shared his sinful past and his hockey past that is now glorified through Jesus Christ and now uses him testimony to spread the gospel to whoever he encounters. After that we played a mix-match game with a team and I became a Nordique! Then Sunday morning at 7am, we played the Knights again, the 1st team we lost to filled with u18 active Northstar Knights players. We won the final game 5-4.       The topic of the weekend is the 10 traits of a Godly Man...

Open Ice Video

      This weeks video is a fun one getting on the ice! Thankful to be able to train and get ice while interning here. A lot has been happening here and I'm excited to share my experiences.