It's been a busy season around our ministry, so it's been hard to update much about Silver Birch X. Here is the second installment about what went down during our awesome January retreat.
Saturday morning started off with breakfast, featuring perhaps the most disgusting sausage ever. I've eaten raw SPAM, and I will tell you it may have tasted better then this. After breakfast we headed for our second worship session. Despite the early morning time students still worshiped with really glad hearts and enjoyed the spectacle of our opening game Cereal Killer. I say enjoyed the spectacle because the cereal was quite disgusting and about half the teams quit right away, despite a cash prize on the line (in hind sight I should have known that a whole box of cereal for a $1 probably was not going to be very tasty.).
We also gave cash away in our Diving For Dollars game, in which contestants had to dunk into a cold tank of water to retrieve money and gift cards. 
For the second message on our theme of temptation Ryan laid his personal story on the line for all to hear. He spoke of his struggles with temptation, how he gave into it and how God helped pull him back. It was really moving stuff and really served as a wake-up call for all of us. Worship session 2 set-list:
We Shine: Fee
Take It All: Hillsong United
Dancing Generation: Brandon Grissom
The Stand: Hillsong United
Inside Out: Hillsong United
The rest of the morning featured our high schoolers heading to the broom ball court for the annual melee, while our middle schoolers headed to the tubing hills. The runs were really fast this year, which resulted in some bloodshed and injuries, but fortunately everyone ended up ok in the end. The afternoon was filled with tons of fun free time options. Many students took advantage of the SBR climbing center, which not only has a climbing wall but a new "leap of faith" feature.
Students also enjoyed skiing, horseback riding, tubing, power tubing, and just hanging out with friends for snacks, drinks, board games, and conversation in the canteen area. It was so cool to see students hanging out so well together. We have a very diverse group in terms of schools and personalities, yet they mesh so well together. It was a fun, but exhausting afternoon for all.
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