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Church Retreat.
star it|1 comments|November 17, 2007 at 6:47pm|email it|739 reads
 

I just returned from my church's church retreat. If you've never been to a church retreat and you get a chance you should go. They sure can be a lot of fun. We went to a camp a little over an hour ago last night and spent the night and came back this evening. We played this game where we wore homemade necklaces with the fruit of the spirit on them. This game lasted the whole retreat. We had 3 words we couldn't say or anyone that heard you say it would get one of your fruits. Of course the one with the most points at the end won. The words you couldn't say were cold, snow and winter. Do you know how hard that can be when it's November in Ohio and we were making homemade Christmas cards? It sure makes you think before you speak. It also makes you listen to everyone else around so it was good. Hard but good. And it was actually a lot of fun. Somehow I managed to win and got a fruit basket with 9 different fruits....how fitting is that since their are 9 fruits of the spirit. Then we had a series of games that we played and all the points added up to a grand total and there were actually 2 winners for this one. One for the men and one for the women. The first one was Power of 10. Questions were actually taken from Drew Carey's game show. Then we played charades using the parables. Do you have any idea how hard that can be? Not very easy at all. Then the 3rd game was using the words peace and patience and coming up with as many 2 letter words or more you can. No abbreviations or proper names. Anyhow our pastor is really into Corvettes and with the parables it was figured that he would win. So the men's prize was a really nice book about Corvettes. I somehow managed to win this as well and got a really nice Thomas Kincade gift set. I really love Thomas Kincade so that was pretty fitting too. It's not all fun and games though. We also have Bible study and worship. We also made Christmas cards for service men. That was a lot of fun too. And of course the fellowship is great too. It is an awesome time and it is really worth it if you ever have a chance.

The fruit of the spirit.....joy, peace, love, kindness, self-control, goodness, patience, faithfulness and gentleness. These are all characteristics that we all should have as good christians. Think about how you show these characteristics or how others around you show these characteristics. These are things that we are thankful for but don't really think about.  

I guess that's enough about my weekend. Hope it gives you something to think about.
 

Sanctus Real & Stephen Curtis Chapman Concert
1 star|3 comments|October 08, 2007 at 3:51pm|email it|669 reads
 
Wow! What more can I say. That's all I can really say. It was awesome. Bethany Dillion opened the concert but unfortunately she was very hard to understand. It sound like she was to close to the mic or something. I will say that I got her CD as part of a package they were offering and it is pretty good. After Bethany Dillion came Sanctus Real. Boy did things liven up then. They are awesome and boy did the crowd get pumped up when they came out. Awesome music. Got their CD with The Face of God on it as part of the package deal as well. Awesome CD. After Sanctus Real was the intermission but before the intermission could start Stephen Curtis Chapman came out to talk about his change for orphans program. The cool part about this was that he let us know that the money collected would be presented to a local couple  that was already approved for a grant to help with adoption costs thru his program. Well at this point of course came intermission. After intermission things really got hopping....literally. When Stephen Curtis Chapman came out he started jumping around on stage. New music and old. It was all wonderful and very upbeat. I just wish I had some of his energy because he sure is full of energy. He was still jumping up and down at the end of the show. He has such a wonderful message and his music backs it up. It is so awesome to go to a concert and really see these artists perform because you can see how much they really believe what they are saying. CDs are great but they don't give ya the opportunity to really see how much they believe etc.It is so worth going to a christian music concert to see this. Well anyhow back to this concert. After Stephen Curtis Chapman performed he did as promised and brought out this couple that was going to receive  the money that was collected. It turned out to be over $3,000. How awesome to be a part of this and to see their appreciation for the help they need  to adopt  the little 6 year old girl they are adopting. She is from one of those countries I've never heard of let alone know how to spell. Not that its important where she's from anyhow. the important part is that she will soon be coming to the United States where she will have so many more opportunities than she would ever have where she is now. The husband in this family is planning the first trip to this country for Oct 28th. I hope and pray that he will have a safe trip and that all will work out for them and this little girl. How awesome to know that I was a part of making this possible. Amazing. This was the end of the concert and what a concert it was. It was a wonder night of fellowship and worship.

Well my first blog is done. Better watch out cause ya might not be able to stop me now.....then again I may never have anything to blog about again. Who knows. Guess we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Hope you enjoyed this story and if you get a chance to go to one of these shows it is so worth it.

God Bless each and everyone one of you.
Jodi
 
   

 
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