Youth Update

Over the past 6 months we have had a couple different youth events at First Baptist. In September they had an overnighter and I came over from Charlotte to help. It was a ton of fun we played games, hooked the wii up to the projector in the sanctuary played hide and seek in the dark and all sorts of other craziness. All together we had like 13 youth show up. Then in the end of January we had another overnighter and this time had like 28 youth show up. It was so neat to see the growth and the excitement the youth had for it. This time we did all the things from before only we added a trip to the fun factory in Franklin. We played arcade games and each got two games of laser tag. I am proud to say that I made it through both overnighters without sleeping, unfortunately one of our leaders can't say the same. haha

Then on March 7th we took about 30 to go skiing at Catalochee. The day was a lot of fun. Only two of the youth had ever been skiing or snowboarding before so we took lessons and a lot of them were brave and just went straight for snowboarding. I opted to try snowboarding as well and actually didn't do to bad. However Rachel and I managed to take each other out three times that day. haha what are friends for?!?! Also Matty and Sara came up for the weekend so they got to go. It was so much fun to have them here.

The last youth happening I will share with for now is our changing youth room. David decided that we would paint the youth room and he let the youth pick colors and come up with whatever. So they did and while Sara was still here her and I started to paint one of the walls because it has the most detail. We also had some help from Rachel and Steph. Now we just have to pick a day to let the youth come in and paint the other three walls. One wall is going to be blue, one green and one orange. It's going to be bright and great!!