this past weekend the servant team comprising of andrew (prayer), ashley(ksl), becky(weekly meeting), rachel (women's min), sam (admin), silas (ksl/men's min), suz (evangelism), and me (send) went to guelph lake for our retreat. we booked the campsites for two nights, stayed there for one, and ended up relocating to bling bling (becky's and my house) for saturday night/sunday morning as the weather became too unbearable.
friday night we set up camp.
memorable moments:
~ watermelon seed spitting competition
~ foraging for firewood-> watching graham and jamie knock down dead trees
~ vanessa's awesome s'mores skills
saturday during the day we sat under a tarp telling each other our testimonies with a few breaks in between.
memorable moments:
~ ashley: "silas!" when a biker passed our campsite
one of the other girls: "ash, that's a 50-year old white man."
~ andrew's ice cream story
~ swapping project stories
saturday during the night we hit up bling bling for warm food and fun games.
memorable moments:
~ playing things in a box
what are you scared of: "eskimos"
what NOT to say to C4C staff: "i feel like God's calling me to father your children."; "hi my name is andrew. i like vanessa. who do you like?"
"acceptable" pick-up lines: "i'm pretty much God's will for your life. let's get married."; "hi my name is andrew. do you want to go for ice cream?
"what would you put on an apron: "if you can lean then you can clean."
what not to rename the weekly meeting: "jihad"; "the pick-up"
sunday we (minus sam) piled into my honda civic and headed to calvary for church where we took up an entire row.
memorable moments:
~ pastor robin: "aren't you glad you're not camping right now?"
~ becky cradling suz to and from church in the front seat of the car.
most popular phrase of the weekend: "christian conscience"
next bonding activity...winter camping.
the phrase "i feel like God's calling me to father your children" is BEGGING for an explanation.
ReplyDeletei'm curious about what you mean by "christian conscience" too.
i'm glad you had a great time.
beth: i put the categories up plus a few more lines. as for "christian conscience" it was a term used frequently by graham to refer to the added conscience that a christian has. does that makes sense? we were talking about taking deposits for summit and etc...
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