Below are some of the best highlights from yet another fantastic, exhausting and wonderful retreat with terrific young people and marvelous adult mentors! Kudos to Andrew and Shelly!
- Our little Chloe won two of the games in the first hour of the retreat!
- Sleeping on a hard floor doesn't not compare to the joy of awakening youth with loud noise and flashing lights!
- Young people sat in silent prayer/writing/coloring/reading for over 20 minutes AND LOVED IT! (they even read their Bibles and made some profound discoveries.)
- Never let youth take their cell phones into the bathroom with them. Cell phones tend to fall into full toilets.
- Four and a half hours of worship rocks youth's worlds! It can change adult's faith lives too.
- Father Dave was the best tour guide of Roman Catholicism and his parish's sanctuary. We give you an A plus, Father Dave!
- Be careful of what you pray for.... you might get it. I prayed for the opportunity to learn more about our 6th graders lives... well for over an hour ALL of them talked to me about the various social groups and cliches in the 6th grade. It was an awesome sharing. We adults just listened and asked more and more questions. Thanks- youth for being so candid in your sharing. We appreciate your trust in us.
- At breakfast I prayed for discernment about adding to the Confirmation curriculum something on sexuality and dating. Three hours later the Holy Spirit supplied with us an answer: Pastor Charles' sermon on Christianity and Dating called Love and Happiness. (PS I loved the Reverend Al Green reference...)
Whew- it was an exciting and exhausting experience, but an excellent one for our young people and us grown ups! God is indeed good in the lives of our Calvary youth!
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