Hey guys! I'm finally postin again after such a very very very long time. I could feed you an excuse about bein busy but we havent been too busy so I wont. But I will say that I havent had internet since I crashed my computer in December so that didnt help me any. Anyways, the only big news is that conference was last week, Feb. 9th throuth the 14th in Orlando, FL. It was alot of fun so I will break it down for you by day.
Monday - This was driving day. 7 Masters students and 2 directors in a van for 16 hours. You can imagine the enjoyment this entailed for us. We finally arrived at our Days Inn at around 10. This would be our home for the week.
Tuesday - Since conference didnt start til Thursday, we had fun the first few days. On this day, we went to Downtown Disney. Its basically a Disney shopping center right outside Disney World. We spent a few hours there, had alot of fun roaming around but nothing significant happened. Then we went back to our hotel and changed for church service at Faithworld. This wasnt a Masters service but we went because John and Joey (our directors) used to work there as childrens pastors and they wanted to see everyone again. So anyways, it started with worship, which most of the people at our methodist churches would probably not get into because it was more of a hip hop/ r&b beat. Very modern. It was really amazing though and we really got into it as a group. Then we went to youth group after worship because the previous MCGC director Rob Fee is the youth pastor there now. We were definitely the minority there because in a group of 40, they had 2 white kids. But it was Orlando so we didnt expect any less. They had a speaker named Bishop Tremmel or something like that. He was pretty good and we'd see more of him later. Then we went back to the hotel and hung out in our room til we fell asleep.
Wednesday - We slept til 9 then left for Tampa Bay at 10. Its a two hour drive from Orlando so we just took in the sights on the way there. When we got there, we first met with John's mom and grandparents then went shopping so that John and Joey could get new cell phones. Then we headed out to the beach for 3 hours or so. It was fun bein in the ocean again, I hadnt been in a very long time. It was freezing though! Then we went to some beach shops for awhile, just because we could I guess. Then we left for our hotel again. It was a tiring ride but when we got back, the fun didnt end. Basically, our hotel had an outdoor pool but they had been in the 30s recently so it was freezing. But Kyle dared me to jump in so we all headed to the pool and long story short, we all ended up jumping in. It was alot of fun despite being cold and we ended up swimming for like 15 minutes before calling it a night.
Thursday - First day of conference. It started with worship done by Frontline. This is a popular worship group which is actually all Masters alumni from Phoenix. They are basically excellent. I'd love to do some of their songs in church this summer if we can convince the youth group to work on it :) So anyways, after that Bishop Tremmel spoke to all of Masters for 45 minutes or so then we broke up for lunch. Then we had a session where everyone split up by what year of Masters you are in. Ours was titled "3 Keys to Being a First Year" and was actually very informative and helpful. Then we went to dinner and came back for evening service, with the message delivered by none other than Clint Brown. He spoke from Romans 12 so it was definitely relative to us Masters kids. It was a very powerful sermon and I enjoyed it very much. I feel better off for hearing it. Then it was time to go get sleep for the next day.
Friday - Day two of conference. Once again we started with worship, this time it was done by Interface, a Masters worship band from Fort Meyers Masters. Then we broke up into morning sessions. But I must change the angle of this now and go more toward an emotional side. When I woke up that morning, I was in a bad mood for no reason. I didnt wanna go to conference, I didnt wanna be in Masters, I didnt feel God at all. I couldnt get into worship and I felt really out of it. So I skipped morning session (which woulda been drama training by the way) and I went behind the church and just prayed for an hour. I knew I couldnt get everything God had for me this day if I didnt get these things straightened out right away. So I did before lunch and the rest of the day was great. We went to lunch with a Masters group thats from about an hour from where we are in Hamilton. Then we went back for afternoon sessions. I went to the one on street evangelism (if anyone is interested in seeing my notes from this, let me know). Then it was dinner time. Nothing exciting. But then it was evening service time. The message was done by Lloyd Ziegler, who basically birthed Masters Commission. He is one of those guys who just sweats awesomeness. Like he wears his heart on his sleeves. Really cool guy. But anyway, that ended conference. Great great great time.
Saturday - Drive home. Lots worse than the drive there because we were all crazy tired. But it was okay :)
Thats about it. Ill leave you with this comment: pics from conference are through this link down there :) take a look please. Thanks! I love you all! Til next time...
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