So, this last weekend was spent with the a-mazing group NGAGE. NGAGE is the "young adult" group for our church and it's a great group full of people my age that love the Lord and are not afraid to show it. I can't put into words how inspiring it was to be around so many people that are so wanting to be with God. That and to add that the food was great. Not to mention the tubing was quite epic in my opinion
The theme of the weekend was "The Basin and the Towel" which was aimed at finding out our spiritual gifts and using them to serve others. We spent most of the weekend taking a couple "spiritual gift inventory" tests and I scored high on Administraion and Mercy on both tests. I was a bit shocked with scoring so high on Mercy till I realized what it "meant". According to one of the tests (the longer one) Mercy was "having a heart felt joy for comforting Christians during times of need". I then realized that Mercy wasn't really such a shock!
A lot of thanks go out to the people that helped plan the whole thing but a lot of thanks goes out to the guys I shared with. David Cress, the man has a heart to serve like you wouldn't believe and it's pretty evident. Josh Odred, I got to know him more and see he has a great heart for people and has such a great testimony. Ben Dye, may have just met him this weekend but to see his spark and love for everything is great.
I wish I had more pictures but I doubt we'd be able to fully capture how much God moved in just a short weekend. To be able to be so open and unashamed of our faith and to let others in was so great for me and I needed this weekend. It was a therapy that only being with other believers can give
Well, the tubing was a lot of fun. Hopefully we got some good shots since a lot of the wipeouts and bails from this weekend were hilarious and warranting of some "Top 10 Play Footage". I mean, where else can you find 3 pretty well sized guys holding on for dear life on a tube designed for 3 smaller people?!
Song of the Day: "The basin and the towel"-Michael Card
:D It was pretty epically amazing! I still need to put up the "man love" pictures I took...
ReplyDeleteIt was just incredibly refreshing. It just felt safe.
You haven't put them up yet?! You need to
ReplyDeleteAnd it was refreshing. I even got my feet cleaned!