We started our Saturday with Breakfast and Quiet Time
followed by morning worship. Our focus in the morning was on the importance of
SPENDING QUALITY TIME in the Word. We used Romans 12:2 and Proverbs 3:5-6 to
remind our students that if they believe God has the best for them, then
quality time with Jesus is a must. Discovering God's perfect will
for our lives and living inside of it has everything to do with carving TIME
for the Lord in the Word. We talked about TIME, TRANSPARENCY and SUMBISSION. We were
reminded one more time of the reason WE CAN TRUST God completely - His great
love for us in Christ Jesus. Students responded in an unexpected way in worship
by singing HOW HE LOVES along with our morning closing video. One student from
our group received Jesus during the morning session.
Breakouts were next with topics on Purity, Relevance of the
Bible today, sharing the Gospel and Rhythm, staying full on engaged to God
during the Middle School years - with amazing breakout leaders like Lee Glover,
and our very own pastors Derek Spain, Steve Browning and Rob Brooks.
Lunch followed and then REC & ROPES. Our students had a
blast on the rec field & the high and low ropes course. At rec our teams
competed against time on a fun obstacle course with games like Angry Birds,
human peg jump, earth ball, magic carpet (to name just a few) plus tons of
water games.
After dinner we headed back into our evening worship with a
FULL ON worship session with our amazing Tyler Gardner band. Songs like Our God
and With Everything captured the heart of our packed worship room. Dwayne Smith
spoke on self-esteem and the Christian life, as being more than a decision at a
place in point to being a LIFESTYLE to be embraced daily. He challenged our
students to be willing to TAKE ON the opportunities God sets before them even
now and NOT wait till later. At least 4 decisions were made for Jesus by the
end of our night.
After family group times, our LATE NIGHT event was TOURNY's
in the gym. With games like gotcha, four square & the awesome volleyball
tournaments our night was a blast. The finalists in volleyball were Team Purple and Team Green, with Green winning as champions.
A great day yesterday!!! One more to go and tomorrow we'll
be heading home. Please pray on this last day God does His great work in ALL of
our students. Pray for God to continue to move as He has already. And if you
prayed for us yesterday for good weather, thanks :) God indeed gave us an
amazing weather and students were able to have fun in the sun!
Blessings to all from the Blue Ridge YMCA.
Flav & the HSM staff
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