Rise Up!

We love retreat weekends! Camp has four different annual retreats and Rise Up is the first to happen after summer ends. It ends up being a bit of a reunion and a good reminder to keep pressing down the path towards a closer relationship with God.

Friday started with a lot of rain and a bit of snow which didn't slow any of our retreaters down. Joined by youth groups from Gem, Linden, and Dalhousie - we rocked out the Willsonball and giant Dutch Blitz late into the night. On Saturday night, we rolled out one of my all time favourites, Collector's Choice.

Tom Mulhern brought a band out from Dalhousie Church (plus a little help from Fender, Sunshine, and Yoshi) which kept us rocking all weekend long. Jonathan Klein from First Alliance Church in Calgary.

One of the things that really stuck with me was the phrase that Jonathan used: "Feed our faith and doubt our doubts". He shared how God has a purpose for us and not only that - He's rooting for us. We have a responsibility to get to know the Word of God and put it into practice - to cut sin and idols out of our lives. Jonathan left us with the 72 hr challenge - what have we put into practice since the retreat?

That's a wrap!...Atleast that's what our kitchen says. Stay tuned for next week when we launch a truly exciting video about Reaching Higher. Until then - I'll leave you with this video...it's of the video scavenger hunt from this last week. It happened to be Ranger's birthday so naturally - every group had to come into the office and sing Ranger Happy Birthday on the day of his birth.

Linden just happened to sing it in Low German. Hopefully they got bonus points for that.

Check you later!
Jogee