Why We do stuff like this weekend…

I’m excited for this weekend… It’s going to be awesome… There will be memories built there that we otherwise wouldn’t have if we didn’t do something like this.  This weekend is Detox.  This is our second year running a Fall Retreat for our Senior High Students.  It has been extremely profitable…

Here’s why I love it…

1. We get away early in the school year so that we can remind students that God has called them to be a testimony to their school
2. We spend time camping; which always allows for tons of fun, and builds memories that last a lifetime
3. Students become vulnerable and are willing to share how God is leading them/working on them during weekends like this
4. Leaders have some of their best conversations with students on a white water raft, a hiking trail, or sitting around a campfire (I love enabling these types of conversations)
5. Camping is just all around fun
6. Students who come away knowing that the night time low temperature is going to be somewhere around upper 30’s and definitely low 40’s definitely are ready to learn something
7. Students who don’t normally associate with one another are given opportunities to do just that throughout a weekend like this
8. Friendships are strengthened/formed
9. Jesus is honored
10. Singing under the stars around a fire unplugged reduces worship down to it’s core… Honoring God, declaring His worth, and that never gets old

So, if you remember, or God brings it to your attention, pray for us as we go away that these 10 things would happen… but not just these ten, but many more!

~Peter