Fun day...spent some time playing Egyptian Rat Slap...a card game that is all the rage in the land of HCC Youth Ministries...and while doing so had an interesting moment from a lady cleaning the table next to us in the dining hall...she had her back to us, let out a seriously loud burp, like 8th grade guy good, and then without ever turning around or looking at us, said outloud to no one in particular..."Well, Excuse me"...we were absolutely dying...you ever laugh so hard in perfect silence because you don't want whoever to know that your laughing at them? Well, that was us...all 5 of us...Jen and Haley were in tears, Justin was just shocked, Alina didn't know what to do, and I just loved every second of it... rec results came in...me and my studly boys are in dead-last place..yep, 20th out of 20 teams...oh well...one of the girls teams is in 2nd place, so that's cool Evening chapel was great, we seem to have settled into a "spot"...the far side of the chapel ('stage left' for the performing readers)...worship was towards a more mellow level, but it got deep and impactful... PJ (our speaker) did a great job again explaing that we're all sinners, and that it can lead us around like a fish that's swallowed a hook...we are slaves to it, as teh Word says... great cabin discussion times as well... I've got about 100 pics uploaded, just have to figure out a way for you to have easy access...hopefully in my next blog after lunch tomorrow... thanks for praying... TN

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this morning's worship was great (with the band 330-Plan). Students just "letting go and letting God"

then off to Day 1 of Rec "Relay Day"

Our entire group in on the Pink team (the 'Bots) except for me and my small group of 4 guys...we are on the Green team, (the Robo's)...so needless to say, either way, there's bound to be some talk at the end of the week...

Our subteam is called RoboSchool and the rest of the group is on various teams like MonkeyBots, FancyBots and other Bot names which I don't care to remember, lol

A major portion of the group is going surfing today, so hopefully we'll have some pics of that later tonight...

off to free time now...then dinner and evening chapel...

TN

ps...I'm so proud of our "newbie" counselors, they're really stepping right into the middle of things, getting to know the girls and hanging with them...please pray for them, and each of us, that our time with students would be life-impacting...like "I remember in 2008, my counselor was ____________ and she really made a difference in my life that week and helped get me to the place I am today with the Lord"....