"Undignified" - Chris Tomlin
Ok so this is my official Winterfest '07 update.
Friday:
We got to church extra early (even with a McDonalds stop) and loaded up our stuff (guitar hero included). I rode up on the "short" bus (the 15 seater) and we watched "Remember the Titans" (one of the be dramedies of all time) and later (with much protest) "High School Musical" ( a movie created to lie to tweens about the high school experience).
Neway we finally made it there and had some time so i hooked up GH2 and it was an instant hit with most of the guys Chalet. We went down to the Hall and had our service for the night (Jeff Walling is truly a master of his craft). then went out to eat (pizza hut cheezy bites pizza!)
Saturday
It is at this point that i will reveal the reason behind the "Theme song for Today" Watershed (the worship leaders) opted to sing "Undignified" by Chris Tomlin but they really shouldn't have. They were throughing off the whole tempo of the song, but i did enjoy the dancing part of it.
The lessons were inspiring we heard about a guy who pressed on for a long time and finally became an astronaut, hows that for a lesson in perserverance, and this other guy who was a 2x Olympic Gold Medalist, who was a great example not only of perserverance but of coachability, and yes that is a technical term.
The most interesting point in this trip (religiously speaking) for me was when a fire alarm went off during a very serious point during our song worship, causing us to evacuate. I was so angry, because Satan will use any means to take people's minds off of the Lord. I actually snapped on my friend (foster) because of it. I don't think that my anger was wrong. It was a righteous anger but I lost control. I talked to Darren (my YM) and he told me that I Satan is just as likely to use me getting angry to take the focus off of God as an alarm. Thankfully the session wasn't cancelled but who knows how many people lost focus in that moment, how many souls were on the verge of making a change in their life that may never do it now.
After we got back to the Chalet, I got a call from Georgia, I've forgiven her, and I'm trying to have a relationship with her even if it isn't as deep as what I had with my mom.
we walked around for a little bit after the lesson and then headed back for a small bit of our yearly wrestling competition Jacob's Club (Jacob wrestled with God in the wilderness) neway i lost but it was to a guy who wrestled for buckhorn and then a guy who is a Grissom Varsity football player (center & lizzie's bf) plus i was tired from the other guy so im not to dissapointed.
Sunday
This is the only part that makes early session a lame thing we had to be up by like 5:30 local time (which is 4:30 CDT) in order to be showered fed and at the hall by 7:00 am local. We got out around 9:00 am local and I realized that church back home hadn't even started yet!! but we walked around for a bit got a bite of real breakfast to eat and headed back to the chalets where i napped amidst games of guitar hero.
around 1 or so i ate lunch and we headed for Winterfest Bowl IV (our yearly Football game) My team lost (after an amazing series of drives though). We weren't allowed to play tackle out of concern for a guy playing who had just had teeth pulled and was on painkillers, but he hurt his wrist within about 15 minutes of kickoff. The only problem with playing 2 hand touch was that the teams had been built with tackle in mind (plus thats where i shine 3 touch downs, with ppl on my back, at Winterfest Bowl III) and so I could accept the loss with a score of 42-56 white team (I wasn't on white team)
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Monday
We headed home, i rode with my hot tubbin' buds on the big bus slept most of the way, Mr. Gatti's is awesome, except that (in a ironic twist) a group of baptists had beatin us there. For those of you who aren't CoC that is a little running joke we have because we get out about an hour before the baptists do, so we get an earlier choice of restaurants, I hold not hate for the baptist community. It was okay though. We headed home and watched Nacho Libre on the way.
Got back Battery was dead on my car, but I got it jumped no problem.
thats about it, i know this is a rather lack luster summary but I've been tired for several days now I keep having these crazy dreams that wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and all the images seem to fade away like a chalk drawing before i can take note of ne of them.
-matt
Friday:
We got to church extra early (even with a McDonalds stop) and loaded up our stuff (guitar hero included). I rode up on the "short" bus (the 15 seater) and we watched "Remember the Titans" (one of the be dramedies of all time) and later (with much protest) "High School Musical" ( a movie created to lie to tweens about the high school experience).
Neway we finally made it there and had some time so i hooked up GH2 and it was an instant hit with most of the guys Chalet. We went down to the Hall and had our service for the night (Jeff Walling is truly a master of his craft). then went out to eat (pizza hut cheezy bites pizza!)
Saturday
It is at this point that i will reveal the reason behind the "Theme song for Today" Watershed (the worship leaders) opted to sing "Undignified" by Chris Tomlin but they really shouldn't have. They were throughing off the whole tempo of the song, but i did enjoy the dancing part of it.
The lessons were inspiring we heard about a guy who pressed on for a long time and finally became an astronaut, hows that for a lesson in perserverance, and this other guy who was a 2x Olympic Gold Medalist, who was a great example not only of perserverance but of coachability, and yes that is a technical term.
The most interesting point in this trip (religiously speaking) for me was when a fire alarm went off during a very serious point during our song worship, causing us to evacuate. I was so angry, because Satan will use any means to take people's minds off of the Lord. I actually snapped on my friend (foster) because of it. I don't think that my anger was wrong. It was a righteous anger but I lost control. I talked to Darren (my YM) and he told me that I Satan is just as likely to use me getting angry to take the focus off of God as an alarm. Thankfully the session wasn't cancelled but who knows how many people lost focus in that moment, how many souls were on the verge of making a change in their life that may never do it now.
After we got back to the Chalet, I got a call from Georgia, I've forgiven her, and I'm trying to have a relationship with her even if it isn't as deep as what I had with my mom.
we walked around for a little bit after the lesson and then headed back for a small bit of our yearly wrestling competition Jacob's Club (Jacob wrestled with God in the wilderness) neway i lost but it was to a guy who wrestled for buckhorn and then a guy who is a Grissom Varsity football player (center & lizzie's bf) plus i was tired from the other guy so im not to dissapointed.
Sunday
This is the only part that makes early session a lame thing we had to be up by like 5:30 local time (which is 4:30 CDT) in order to be showered fed and at the hall by 7:00 am local. We got out around 9:00 am local and I realized that church back home hadn't even started yet!! but we walked around for a bit got a bite of real breakfast to eat and headed back to the chalets where i napped amidst games of guitar hero.
around 1 or so i ate lunch and we headed for Winterfest Bowl IV (our yearly Football game) My team lost (after an amazing series of drives though). We weren't allowed to play tackle out of concern for a guy playing who had just had teeth pulled and was on painkillers, but he hurt his wrist within about 15 minutes of kickoff. The only problem with playing 2 hand touch was that the teams had been built with tackle in mind (plus thats where i shine 3 touch downs, with ppl on my back, at Winterfest Bowl III) and so I could accept the loss with a score of 42-56 white team (I wasn't on white team)
.
Monday
We headed home, i rode with my hot tubbin' buds on the big bus slept most of the way, Mr. Gatti's is awesome, except that (in a ironic twist) a group of baptists had beatin us there. For those of you who aren't CoC that is a little running joke we have because we get out about an hour before the baptists do, so we get an earlier choice of restaurants, I hold not hate for the baptist community. It was okay though. We headed home and watched Nacho Libre on the way.
Got back Battery was dead on my car, but I got it jumped no problem.
thats about it, i know this is a rather lack luster summary but I've been tired for several days now I keep having these crazy dreams that wake me up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat and all the images seem to fade away like a chalk drawing before i can take note of ne of them.
-matt
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