Valle Crucis - Saturday Evening/Sunday Morning

Saturday evening began with a very competitive game of broom hockey followed by a blanket race with the winning team having a time of around 10 seconds.  We settled down for our evening session where we talked a little more about our story and then watched the movie "This is Our Time" about five friends who just graduated college discerning God's plan for their lives.  In the movie they talked about the fact that hearing God's call is not about what we do, it is about what we are.  We had a brief discussion following the movie and then went to our zilch prayer and senior spotlight recognizing our two seniors, Maggie and Jake.  We closed out the evening with a bonfire and s'mores. 

Sunday morning after breakfast, we had our worship service.  We listened to the song "Everlasting God" and talked about how we get stronger while we wait for the Lord.  Laura then taught us the Doxology to the tune of the Cups song.  Following that, we got into pairs and used the statement:  My name is _________, and I am a follower of Christ and I affirm God's call to be ______________. We then took our pairs and turned them into groups of 4, and then 8, and then 16.  We talked about how it gets more difficult to proclaim our faith as the amount of people we have to share it with grows.  We then went to a time of personal prayer thinking about times that we are closest to God and the times that we feel farthest away.  We then took communion and watched the slideshow of the weekend.  To wrap up the weekend we got our sweatshirts and said our UMYF benediction.