Yet another late one, but hopefully the last (late) one for a while.
Monday evening I got out to
It was another quiet week at work again, with many of the ministers still away on holidays. I managed to get some work done on our CCLI licences to update them for this year, with a slight reconfiguration.
Wednesday, when the rains came, we (along with a lot of people in our area) were affected by the rain. It was just after lunch when the heavy rain hit, and the sagging roof next to my desk, which has suffered from heavy rain in the past, started to drip and leak, before rapidly developing into a stream. It was straight into action mode from there, grabbing a couple of containers to catch the water as others moved papers and printers out of the way. As the bulk of the rain came, I had to check the rest of the building to make sure that it wasn’t leaking. There were only two other areas –
Thursday was dealing with the aftermath of the rain, along with printing and collating of books for the new youth conference at Merroo Conference Centre.
Friday was time to pack again a bit before and a bit during work for this new camp, as well as sorting out the regular work bits and pieces. By about 3:15pm parents were dropping off their kids (the year 7-9s) to head off to this new conference at
I don’t want to go into a whole lot of detail for this conference, so I’m going to try to do it in summary, as much as I can. If you want to know more, please ask!!
In total, we had maybe 180 youth there, from year 7 to 13, and then another 70+ leaders spanning about 8 different church youth groups, there was also a mish-mash band, and a couple of delegates who were there to check the conference out, without bringing their group (for this year at least).
The band was led by
The talks over the weekend were from the book of
There was plenty of other things that happened as well, in and out of session: videos of each of the youth groups, and video interviews with older Christians from churches, which were a great encouragement, Memory verses, fantastic prayers (led by youth group leaders, as a model of how and what to pray for), discussion groups, and plenty of free time (almost 6 hours…). There was a strongish encouragement to meet people, but I feel that this is actually quite a hard thing to do; ie ‘force’ people into meeting others… I’m normally willing, but it’s quite a daunting task, and something that people really need to be attitudinally invested in. The easy thing to do is to meet someone, tick that box and then go back to hanging out and keeping up with your own group. I got to meet a few people, including
I also went through a pretty rough patch in my current sick state, with headaches, swollen glands, sore throat, coughing and plenty of mucus. It wasn’t a great help for the weekend, especially combined with a cabin of rowdy year 8 boys, which is where I slept, for lack of a better word….
Also the conference was named
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Great read again Sam, good to hear about work n chch stuff doin well and u being encouraged n challenged by ppl and teaching at chch.
Keep striving to live for Jesus and put him first brother.
Prayin for ya