what a life: Disciple Now Weekend

This past weekend my church had "Disciple Now". It's like a youth retreat where they have a speaker and a band come. Families from the church volunteer to be host homes for youth to stay in. My host home was Mrs.&Mr. Nemitz (Emily's house) It was me and 8 other 9th grade girls. We had alot of Fun!!!!

Friday night we arrived at the church, had dinner then, a "session" with the

The Common Ground Band and Wes Hammilton (speaker). They both were AWESOME!!!! The CG Band has come to D-Now the last couple of years and have been Amazing:-) This was the first time that Wes Hammilton had come to speak, He was really good! after the first session, everyone went to their "Host Home" where we had our small group session, Sarah was our small group leader. After that we had a camp fire roasted hot dogs and marshmallows. Then we watched a movie on the wall (thanks to a projector). We watched "The Other Side of Heaven" It was about this Missionary on some Island (that I can't remember the name of at this moment). There was alot of funny lines in the movie that we were all repeating through out the weekend

:-) lol. We ended up going to bed around 1:30am, the Schedule really said we were supposed to go to bad at 11:45pm, but ya, that didn't happen! :-)

The next morning we had "small group session 2"and then another session at the church

(w/ CG band&Wes Hammilton) Then after we had lunch we all loaded on to, 2 huge charter buses, our church bus (The lime green bus), and 3 passenger vans, we then headed over to the Raleigh Rescue Mission. It was about a 45min. ride with a whole bunch of teenagers in a bus! Ya. At the Raleigh Rescue Mission different groups did different things, anything from yard work, cleaning nurseries, painting, holiday preparation, basically a little bit of everything.
My group did "holiday preparation" where we really didn't do anything holidyish. We wrote on these cards that people can take and then provide what ever is on the card. So I had to write "Stuffing Mix","Raleigh Rescue Mission" and "Instant Mashed Potatoes","Raleigh Rescue Mission" over and over and over again. There were hundreds and hundreds AND hundreds of the cards that we had to fill out. We did that for two hours then loaded beck on the buses and vans and headed back to the church. Once we got back to the church we headed to our host homes. We did "Small Group Session 3&4" had dinner, played Twister, and hung out. Then we headed back to the church for Session 3. Then went back to the our host homes again. Where we had a snack played "Catch Phrase" which was really really fun, Then we watched "Sky High" and went to bed at 1:30am again! The next morning Mr. Ryan woke us all up telling us we were all going to be late to getting to church and if we wouldn't get up he was gonna pour cold water on us. I got up and went up stairs, Mr. Ryan was still yelling for everyone one to get up when all of a sudden he goes "Whoops, Never Mind!" "It's really only 7:15am not 8:15am, I forgot to set back the clocks!" :-) lol, So we were all ready to go an hour before we were supposed to leave so we played catch phrase again! Then headed to church for Sunday School and Service (w/ CG band&Wes Hammilton) then head home with our families. Over all it was a really awesome fun weekend!!!!!!!!!!!!!!