Basically, this is what I have to show you:
A bunch of dancing 9th grade girls! I believe they're dancing because they were soooo happy to have me as their DNow Leader!
You other Baptist kids know what a DNow is, but for my other friends, it's just a youth weekend retreat. We do a little Bible study, a little community building and a lot of goofing off.
I don't have pictures of the Bible study part, because that would've been weird.
I have a few pictures of the community building. This year it was a "community impact" scavenger hunt. Basically, we had a list of helpful tasks we had to run around town to get done. We wiped tables at a fast food restaurant:
We bought a guy some coffee. He was excited about it I think:
We also scared lots of people. This lady thought she was being attacked by girl scouts. We just wanted to carry her groceries for her, but the girls were maybe a little excited about it, so she yelled, "I already bought 20 boxes!" before the girls could explain. After that she was totally into it, though.
They also scared a homeless man that they just wanted to give some water to. He ran away. No joke. Like, actually ran. I don't have a picture. That would've been weird.
They also invited people to church, handed out water to less skittish homeless folks, and they pumped a stranger's gas for him. (That's the stranger in the background.)
I got a lot more photos of the goofiing off, though.
Like we've already seen, there was dancing:
There were some interesting makeovers:
On Saturday there was a little bit of playing outside. The weather was perfect!
The whole weekend was so much fun! Thanks girls!
I'm so glad to see you involved in D-Now etc.
ReplyDeleteI remember how much fun you (and your siblings) had in youth group growing up and am glad to see that the seeds that were planted in you then are growing and blooming now.
Those kids will always remember the fun you helped them have and may, one day, pass it along too.
You make me proud doodle.