We’ve finished our first week of keynoting at Montreat Youth Conference and are getting ready to begin our second week. While we’re exhausted (and have enjoyed most of a Saturday to recoup a little bit), it was an exciting and wonderful week. Nearly 1000 youth and their leaders gathered in Anderson Auditorium each morning. It was our job to help bring to life the theme (“Turning the Page”) and the daily scriptures. We did our best with video clips, skits, a daily blog (projected on the big screen), and lots of storytelling. “Proclamation of the Word” took lots of different forms. Our biggest hope is that it connected with the young people, challenged them in their faith, helped them think a new thought, and inspired them to take a new step as disciples of Christ.
We won’t post much detail about the week yet (we don’t want to give away our secrets before we’ve done the second week!), but if you’re interested you can see more about the Montreat Youth Conferences here:
And in the next day or so you can see some pictures from Week 5 (our first week as keynoters) here:
It is a humbling thing to offer the good news of the gospel in this setting. It’s overwhelming to imagine all that God has in mind for these young people. I can only hope that our ministry here these weeks will help them in their journeys…
Katie, of course, is having a ball. She has 1000 new friends each week! She’s having so much fun with the host of kids on the 3rd floor of Assembly Inn. Bruce and Robin’s kids — Evelyn, Abby, Annie — are her new best friends! She’s loving the Clubs program and is disappointed this weekend that she has to wait until Monday for it to begin again. What a treasure to have these kinds of communities and experiences for our daughter. They are irreplaceable.
Pray for us in the week to come!
