Tuesday at the National Youth Gathering

Here are Andrea, Kelsey, and Jacy sharing what happened today with the help of a few friends.

Monday, Gathering Begins!

Busy busy today. Got the opportunity to see the city, catch up with friends from Kansas at the District event, and got to experience how overwhelming and powerful 30,000 youth in one place an be. What a pleasure it is to see that excitement for praising God in this young generation.

Sunday

Yet again we are pooped, but it was a great day.

Quick Notes

We did make it, we are at our hotel on the river walk. So far the highlight of the trip has been showers! After a day and a half in the same clothes we finally checked into our.rooms and got to cleanse ourselves. After a night on the bus, I do think a new overall highlight will soon be the beds that we get to sleep on tonight.
Also of note. Today we had the opportunity to attend a very large church. It is always nice to attend a new service and note the differences. It theosophists us to se e what other churches are able to do and als to appreciate what we have our own

We're here... Almost!

After a mostly sleepless night (average seems to have been about 4 1/2 hours of poor sleep) the 5 busses (250ish kids) we arrived early to the campus of Concordia University-Texas in Austin. Unfortunately, since we were early we had to wait an hour for breakfast which was scheduled at 7:30. Some of us played early morning frisbee and Amanda von helped teach us to be aware of the fire ants.

Though we had a wait for breakfast, when it did finally come we were not disappointed. Concordia treated us to a Full buffet and all for free. Following breakfast we had the opportunity to see the new campus at Concordia. I imagine for most of our kids it was their first college visit, so maybe we got them thinking.

We loaded the bus back up around 9:00 and started on the final leg of the journey. Most of us are in good spirits but could use a double dose of prayer today for some sort of divine energy boost.

And we're off!!

We loaded the bus this evening and started towards San Antonio. Made a quick stop in Wichita to pick up a few nor passengers and are getting ready for (hopefully) a night of sleep on the bus. Should make it to San Antonio around 7 tomorrow morning.

Tomorrow we go

We leave tomorrow. Dave, Charla, Nick, Andrea and I have the pleasure to experience the National Youth Gathering with an exceptional group of youth from Mt. Calvary. What makes them so special? Take a listen to what Katelynn and Ellee have to say about it.

Expectations for San Antonio.

In about two weeks we will be heading to San Antonio. We are excited to go learn about Texas, its history and culture. But based on what we know know, here is what our group is excited to experience on our trip down south.

Covenant

Take a minute to enjoy this great piece on the covenant that our youth helped put together to govern time together.

Less than 3 weeks till we take off!

Gathering Prep

Today we met and had our final preparation meeting for the National Youth Gathering. We had a wonderful lunch thanks to some of the moms from the group, and enjoyed Bible study, group builders, covenant making, and video blogging practice. Over the next few weeks we will be posting some of the video we recorded this afternoon to the blog to cover topics such as; What is a National Youth Gathering? Top 10 things that make Mt. Calvary so special. Law and Gospel of our Covenant. What does the theme Live Love[d] mean? Why we are excited to attend the National Youth Gathering?  and the Top 10 things we are excited to see in San Antonio.

Please keep up with our group through this blog as we are away. We will do our best to post pictures, videos and respond to any comments as we are away.