So, I was able to steal away for a few minutes to share this with all of you. We had a great afternoon. The leaders and I planned a little prank if you will on all of the students. It was great. It was fun, it was entertaining, it was exciting, and ultimately it got us all together and was a very unifying experience. Keswick for those of you who are unaware has a fairly gross lake. Pretty but full of weeds and decaying plant matter. So, when I suggested yesterday to a bunch of guys that we swim out to the blow up raft in the middle of the lake they laughed and said no way. So, we devised a plan. We decided that we would tell the group that tomorrow afternoon (today) we were going to go to the beach. Well, the nice thing about keswick’s lake is it has a nice beach. So, today rolls around, and we get everyone loaded up in the bus. Kids are complaining, because some don’t want to go, and others are really excited to go. Everyone gets on the bus. We take a head count, we pray before we leave, and we go through all the motions we would before taking off on a long trip. We even found a bus driver to take us there. So, we pull about 150 yards down the road only to stop and let everyone off at the lake “beach”. It was hysterical. (The kind that you have to be there for… but none the less, it was funny. Take my word on it.) Their faces were priceless. Everyone looked and they realized that they had been had. It was great. We all got off the bus, and then for the next 45 minutes we proceeded to do relay races and games and team building type activities. It was truly a great bonding moment for all of us. I am so glad that we did that! It not only was fun, it was healthy for us. We built swamp monsters out of leaders, we buried people in sand, we had relay races, and all around good fun. Thank you for praying! It was great.
Thought I would share that with you…
~Peter
