OneThing!!!

OneThing was AMAZING!!!

Friday - We left Michigan about 1:30 pm. I got some of my Sunday School class out of High School early so they were happy about that. We got to the Hotel at about 5:30 pm. Then got all the food and luggage into our two rooms. The girls were Kristina, Sunnie, Spring and I. Then Boys were Joe, Adam, Will and Pastor Dave (aka. My Dad). We went to World View Community Church at about 6:30pm. The church itself was awesome! The drive way was really long and then when you pulled up to the actual building it was really big and had woods surrounding it. All the trees changing colors. We got inside and front row seats on the left hand side. Service started at 7pm. Merchant Band who is pretty much amazing led worship. The singer has an amazing voice and I remember last summer seeing more of Jesus in him than in anyone else I had ever met before. Dwayne Roberts was an awesome speaker as well. He knows the word and says some things dead on to what I need to hear. Service went until about 10:00pm then then our group went to McDonalds. Then back to the Hotel to sleep.

Saturday - Waking up at 7:30am to take a shower after staying up so late was aweful. It was 2-2:30 before any of us had gone to sleep. The girls and I stayed up talking about the worship, boys back home and life. Jesus is awesome for giving me these girls. I love them so much. I got in the shower, got dressed, woke the girls up. Found out the boys weren't up yet with 15 minutes before we needed to go. Woke them up. Left for the church/conference center. Worship in the morning was led by Merchant Band again. They played "I can't wait" live and that was awesome. Then Becky Tirabassi spoke. She was awesome! The youth really enjoyed her, as did I. My Dad bought us all a copy of her book "The Burning Heart Contract." Everyone then went out to lunch. Sunnie and I decided to stay at the church because we were fasting and didn't feel like going and watching everyone else eat food. We went to the FSM information meeting for fun. We bugged Dwayne with questions about FMA since I'm going there next year. Then walked around the church. Oh man! This is why I love being a youth leader/Sunday School teacher. I got to talk to Sunnie about a ton of stuff. Like about Islam. And Judaism. There was this gorgeous river back along some paths in the woods that surrounded the church. It was beautiful because the trees were all changing color and the river was full of leaves. Sunnie and I talked for a couple hours. It was awesome. The rest of the youth got back to the church with our water bottles and we hung out looked at t-shirts until the afternoon worship. Afternoon worship was led by Justin Rizzo. I love some of the songs we sang. Good times. Then we went off to Seminars. I went to Shawn Blanc's he talked about 5 things to do to lead to a perfect life. None of us are perfect but these things were really good. Especially when he spoke on managing time. Ephesians 5:15-16, and Psalm 90:12. Managing time hit so close to home with me. Ever since STI I've been on fire for God making him a daily part of my life. I am constantly watching the prayer room webstream. I have to wake up early for them because I have school and work through out the day. Sometimes I just want to sleep in. I'll stay up late working on a paper for school then go to sleep. Waking the next morning to get some alone time in the prayer room is killer. But good. Anyway! Shawn was very good. I met him too, which was nice because I occasionally read his blog. After the seminars we all got back together (everyone else in our group went to Josh Hawkins' End Times Seminar) then went to the Hotel for a bit. People ate, and we chillaxed for awhile. Then went back to the church for the last session. Justin Rizzo led worship. Joe, Adam and I dance in the front. Dwayne spoke about Matthew 6,7,8. It was pretty awesome. I love those chapters. We went back to the Hotel after seeing some people one last time... :-/ We had a devotion that night talked about the Worship and favorite parts of the conference. Went to sleep.

Sunday - I had to be the grouchy Sunday School teacher because my girls wanted to play Sims and watch The Discovery Channel rather than pack and leave. We didn't end up going to church that morning. I really wanted to but it was nice to get home. I just relaxed the rest of Sunday night.

Then today I worked 7 hours and talked to Alex a bit. Now I just need to go write my paper on Abortion. I'll post that tomorrow.