Church Weekend!

We have just returned from a weekend over on the east coast of England with New Park Road Baptist Church, the church we've been attending. It was a weekend retreat aimed at building relationships and learning about God's Grace. We were asked to do some programming for the youth of the church which included a lot of fun and crazy games (WE think!) and some times of challenge, worship and learning.

We started the weekend off with some fear factor type challenges of which the highlight was "cricket spitting"!! It's exactly what it sounds like. You put a live cricket in your mouth then spit it as far as you can! The vegan in the group was quite unsure about this (she didn't have to do it!) but all ended well and every one of the crickets are now safe and sound in the wood pile behind the retreat center!

God blessed both of us with words to say to them about personal holiness (which is only attainable through submission and reliance on Christ; John 15:5) as well as challenge to step out in faith in building Christ-like relationships with the lovable and unlovable alike! Our times of discussion with them were really cool, because both of us really felt God's help and guidance.

We also played a great night-time outdoor game we call 'mission impossible'. They had tons of fun running around trying to hide from our flashlight beams!

We thank God for such a great weekend and everything He did in the lives of the youth of the church. It was Great!

Thanks for reading. If you want to pray for something, pray that God will provide this group of young people with someone more permanent than us to replace us when we leave that will take on the role of youth leader.