A Week in Review with Junior High

Sorry for my loooooooooooong break from posting. Here's a re-cap of the last week. These first two pictures are from last Wednesday night's junior high time. The theme was "Glow Party", so everyone came in either white or bright colors. As you can see, then, the black light made everything...well...glow. It was fun:)

Sixty-some junior-highers packed in a bus (along with leaders) and headed to Motley, MN this weekend (Friday to Sunday). Camp Shamineau was our destination. Some of the highlights of the weekend were broomball, sledding, making homemade donuts at the bonfire, watching "Up!" on the bigscreen, and hearing these youngin's talk about their desire for purity (that was the theme of the weekend). But certainly the most eventful part of the weekend for me started about 12:30 AM Saturday when Tressa (a girl in my cabin) started getting sick...out of both ends. From then until about 4:15AM (when her dad arrived), I was in and out of the bathroom with her, mopping up the floor where her messes didn't quite make it in the bag or bowl, bagging up 2 pairs of pants that were soiled, unclogging toilets (at least attempting to...3 out of the 5 were "out of order" by the end of it all), and conversing with her parents about their plan of action to pick her up. Ha ha. I still laugh when I think of how silly it must have looked, but by the light of my cellphone (so as not to wake up the other 5 girls in my cabin), I held up article of clothing after article of clothing to confirm whether it was hers or not. When her dad came and saw all the bags of stuff I'd thrown together, he must have been a little overwhelmed. The poor girl. I was praying for her as she and her dad made the long 3 hour ride back home. Two hours later, I was in the shower getting ready for the day praying for God's supernatural power to take over...and He was so faithful in answering that prayer. How did Jesus so selflessly serve day after day, hour after hour? He's my hero.