HARVEY CEDARS TIME

HARVEY CEDARS TIME!!!!!!!!!

Greetings all! I know it’s been a while since there was a new posting here but I am back and ready to visit with you through the blog again. I will write an update on my life a bit later on but now I’d like to tell you about our youth winter retreat. It was fantastic! We had 4 boys come, Sam, Ben, Kyle, Mikey. We joined up with two other Baptist churches, 1st Baptist Lansdale and Colingswood. I was a bit nervous about taking our 4 kids to a retreat with two already established youth groups. I was mainly wondering about how they would relate to the other two groups. I am so very glad to say that we had no problems of that kind at all. We (the leaders) were amazed at how well the kinds came together. We had no problems with them relating and making friends with each other.

On the first night there they invented a game they called, “table ball”; basically it’s seeing who can hit the ball at someone else the hardest. As long as it bounces once on the table. (parents, they were supervised the entire time ;-)

on the first night they were all very willing to spend time with each other. Normally they are all willing to spend time with each other at first then it splits into groups. But, not this weekend, they all hung out together the whole time. We always moved as a group and all our 35 kinds hung out togeeeether.

It was a wonderful time filled with the Holy Spirit. The theme of it was evangelism, sharing your faith. We shared a couple of sessions on what Salvation is, What makes a Christian, and how to share your faith with others based on the first two. On Saturday afternoon we had testimony time and the Spirit moved through that worship time in incredible ways. It was amazing seeing those kids speak about their faith and then to see the support from the rest of them as they all listened to each other.
There’s just one more incredible thing that happened this weekend, the worship was amazing. We had a great band with us and the kids were all just incredible about joining in on worship time and singing along. I am glad I was there to worship in such a special, Spirit filled time. We even had a first class sound system! That’s Tom our sound guy for the weekend, you rock Tom!!!

I will just close with some quotes from this memorable weekend,

“I serve society by rocking”; “when I’m rolling in the benjamins I’ll throw you and your dog a bone”; “Hey, is there a French fry between my pants?”;
“you have 92 mosquito fish?”, after some thought; “ what are mosquito fish?”

Funny conversations:

Shower time Sunday morning
Kid 1 ahhhhhhhhhhhh, the water is freezing! ( last one in the shower)
Kid 2 Just suck it up and deal J, I had to yesterday!
Kid 1 yea but my head is even hurting now!!!
Kid 2 HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Last kid out of the pool.

Kid is it still raining outside?
Leader yeah, it is.
Kid oh man! I’m going to have to put my towel over my head, I don’t want my
Hair to get wet!

At the Gym

Leader this is the rock, paper, scissors game
Kid wait, what does scissor look like?

It was an amazing time and we even got to indulge in a life long tradition at Harvey Cedars, beach day! Parent disclaimer THIS WAS ON THE STILL WARM SATURDAY ;-)
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