Disciple Now weekend

This weekend was Disciple Now for our church youth group. If you're not familiar with this, it's a weekend long Bible study / fellowship time in which the teenagers are split by grade and gender to stay in different homes. Matthew and I were excited to welcome my 9th Grade Girls Sunday School class to stay with us both Friday and Saturday nights. There were eight girls and our college-aged leader Kim. Friday night, my co-teacher Stacie also stayed over to hang out with the girls. It was a great weekend beginning with a concert Friday evening (NewsBoys, Toby Mac, and ZOEgirl), an excellent Bible study throughout the weekend (Kim kept those girls flipping through their Bibles!!), a crazy scavenger hunt through town (Matthew drove 60+ plus miles in 2.5 hours -- we felt like we were on The Amazing Race with frustrating arguments and all!!), and just a great time of getting to know these girls better and build relationships with them.



A blurry shot of the concert stage. Great concert especially since there was a message given and 204 people believed in the Lord Jesus for salvation for the first time. Praise God!


Philip just sat looking around at all the unfamiliar faces in his house. By the end of the weekend, he had several new buddies. The girls had fun carrying him around and watching him laugh.

For the scavenger hunt, our group was split into two cars. These were the girls with us: Brittany, Erin, Haley and Kacie. We started out the race with Philip in the car, but since it was his nap time, he began crying the second time the girls jumped out to retrieve a clue (yes, they were all screaming!). We made a pit stop by my parents' house which worked out well as my brother Mike and sister-in-law Andrea were visiting for the day.


I joked with one of the girls saying, "We enjoy having you guys here. It lets me see how my house would be if we had eight kids!" We do love being a DNow host home, but it's not something I can see myself doing all the time.




Here's a group shot just before leaving for church Sunday morning. Back row: Erin, Haley, Philip, Lauren, Brittany; front row: Kacie, Meredith, Cassie, Courtney. It's a great weekend too because we all get to wear sweatshirts and jeans to church!