Hey y’all! this is jay, making an “opening statement.” we’ve had a great first full day! the youth are having a great time, the conference center is so inviting, and the leadership team are off to a great start with the theme of the week! i look forward to sharing the words of the youth with you this week. colleen, katie, and joey wrote the first blog last night after evening devotions. it is now tuesday morning and we just got out of keynote. they are all going to their small groups now. this is the time of day that the previous evening’s posts will most likely be posted. thanks for tuning in!
jay. and now the word from the youth…
Dear Congregation,
Greetings from Montreat! The theme this week is “Throw Open the Doors.” Today was our first full day and it was AWESOME. We had bagels for breakfast and went to Keynote where we danced to energizers and sang along to church songs. Then we went to our separate small groups and had discussions and made new friends. After our first small group we had lunch as a youth group family and it was turkeylicious. Then we went back to small group and we were “locked in” behind doors (get it?!?!? doors! the theme!) and had to perform three tasks in order to break free. After we completed our tasks we got Chilly-Willies (aka Icy-pops) and they were yummsters. We all came back to the house and spent time together as a family until dinner time. For dinner we had tacos and other Mexican-esque foods and Ian ate 4000 chicken and cheese quesadillas. We left the house to go to worship where we explored the mini-theme of “Doors of Possibility.” After worship there was a chance to party hardy and have family time. Once everyone was squeaky clean from showers we had devotion where we shared our feelings about today’s message. Now it is time for beddy-bye but we wanted to blog before bed so that you all could hear about our awesome time.
Love,
Colleen, Katie and Joey
