Wow! It's really been a crazy summer around here. I took some time this morning to put up some pictures from the MS and HS retreats to the Dolfin Cabin. Thanks to Miranda and Hailee for being the photographers for their respective groups.
We just got back from our HS retreat to Dolfin's Cabin yesterday. On my calendar I had written this down as a "mini-retreat," but we ended up having 26 students able to join us for a weekend on the lake. We did a ton of tubing, and let me tell you it was some intense stuff!
Never seen so many people jumping all over the place. Also were able to do a lot of swimming, jet ski stuff, and more. Plus, there was plenty of time to just relax, hangout, and be goofs together. We also had three sessions this weekend on our theme of Crossroads, based on Jeremiah 6:16: This is what the Lord says: “Stand at the crossroads and look; ask for the ancient paths, ask where the good way is, and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls”. 
We talked about how there are many times in our lives where we come to a Crossroads moment, a moment where we have to chose to either follow God's path or the world's. We often know that we are to follow God's ways, and indeed know what that way looks like (i.e. we know the difference btw. right and wrong), but we choose the wrong way because it is easier. This weekend we looked at why it is we chose the worlds' way so often at these crossroads. Often it is because of roadblocks that make it hard to follow God's path. We looked at three of these roadblocks: our past, our conflicts, and our fears, and talked about how we need to stop letting those stop us from living the life God wants us to live.
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