God is Good . . . All the Time!

That is all I can really say after this weekend.  After pulling out of here in Friday, we hit a TON of snow up in the mountain on Friday night.  The road up to Calvin Crest was closed forcing us to turn around and figure out waht to do.  AFter a couple of phone calls, we got a hold of the College Church in Fresno and we had a place to stay Friday Night.  We rolled in to Fresno about midnight (9 hours in transit).  Bunked out and then got up in the morning.

We grabbed some breakfast and had an AMAZING time of worship before we headed up to the mountains again.  Two of the ironic things so far was that 1. This was a UNITY retreat.  God had a sense of humor in changing our plans an really, really, unifying us through such an ordeal.  Everyone had a right to be crabby, nit-picky and grumpy after being stuck in vans for 9 hours, but no one was!  How amazing is that?  Second, Our theme for Friday night was supposed to be, One Lord.  Well God showed us who was Lord.  Who was in Control, Who ought to be worshipped.  And we did on Saturday morning.

We finally made it up there safe and sound.  The rest of the weekend was great!  We started before lunch on Saturday with talking about One Faith and One Baptism.  We were challenged to think about what our next “Baby Step” in our faith was going to be.  And we looked at why does God call us to be baptized and what it is all about.

We ate lunch had small groups and then free time.  There was some wicked snow to play in and sled down.  Saturday Night our Theme was One Body.  We did and activity called “The Whip” where we had a chance to get to know everyone better and what really makes them tick.  We finished off the evening with a Shalom Circle where we got to pray for everyone and have everyone pray for us.

Sunday Morning our theme was One Hope. We were reminded of where true hope really comes from.  After sharing communion together, we gave each other a message of hope that we can carry around with us. 

For those of you who went.  CLICK HERE and e-mail us a story or two of what God did this weekend.  Here are a few of the questions that you might think through as you share what God did:

What is that “Baby Step for you?

What is one thing God said to you this weekend?

Why do you think God sent you on this retreat?

Who is one person you grew closer to that you didn’t expect to?

While that only tells us what we did.  The stories of what God did are even more amazing.  Do yourself a favor and ask one of the people who went, what God did through the weekend.

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