Tomorrow Morning at 6am I'm heading out of town with my youth staff team for about 36 hours on a retreat where we're going to reconnect, play and talk about what the summer ministry was like. We had an amazing summer and our Fall Ministry season officially starts this upcoming Sunday.
And we're floating a river. That's something you do here in Texas when its hot and we've now had 17 days of over 100 degree weather.
I've been totally blessed over the years with amazing teams of people to work with. I'm not sure why I get so many opportunities like this. I wish I had the time here to list out everyone I've had the luck to work with in Youth Ministry and tell you how much I loved it. If you were on one of those teams and you are reading this please know you have shaped me and our friendship has made it so great to do this thing.
I love youth ministry. I love hanging out with people that love youth ministry. I'm really looking forward to being with my team the next few days. Just so you can follow along on our journey with us here's a quick e-mail that I was sent with the details. It's pretty tongue in cheek so laugh with us.
August 18th6am – Leave HPPC6:15am – Team building exercise [TBD] in the van7am – Debriefing of team building exercise in the van7:30am – Stop in West at the Sonic Drive In…and maybe at the Czech Stop.8:30am – Tell secrets and giggle9am – Stop for restroom break [Guys only]9:30am – Put Jon in the back of the bus to see him get car sick9:33am – Pull over and let Jon out9:34am – Drive off without Jon and watch him chase the van9:37am – Listen to Jon complain about us leaving him10:15am – Arrive in Wimberly, TX at Amanda's house to drop off overnight bags/hiking gear10:45am – Arrive in New Braunfels11isham to 3:30/4pm – Float the river.4pm… – prep for dinner5pm – Dinner at http://www.gristmillrestaurant.com/***Head back to Wimberly***Capture the flag:: everyone vs. Charlie Dunn***Make forts in Amanda's parent's living room***Make snow angels for two hours, go ice skating, eat a whole roll of Tollhouse cookiedough as fast as we can, and then snuggle.August 19th8am – Wake up, pack up, leave Wimberly, probably pick up breakfast somewhere along the way, head back to Dallas***We'll stop off at the San Marcos outlet malls to do outlet mall type things like freeze tag.***We'll arrive in Dallas early afternoon.This schedule has some "holes" in it, and some supplemental items to keeping the trip interesting. Tentatively we plan to be away from Dallas somewhere around 36hrs, all day Wednesday and returning Thursday. Up and to this point the only thing you, individually, will have to cover is anything you buy at the outlet malls, and items at gas stations slash West. Other than that, food and float trip expenses will be covered.
