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Friday, February 17, 2006

Winterfest

Gatlinburg, Tennessee!

Each year in February, Maricamp Road Youth (MRY) pack up, load up, and make the 12 hour drive to Winterfest. Winterfest is a four day long youth rally for the Churches of Christ in the southeastern United States.

The days are filled with singing, clean comedy, and some soul reaching, weep invoking lessons about our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. This year was no different. Watershed Worship, an acapella singing group, performed. Watershed was at Winterfest last year and became an instant hit. They are truly an amazing group of young men. (www.watershedworship.com). Since our youth minister knows a couple of the group members, we all got to know them last year personally. So, you can probably guess that our youth group was psyched that Watershed was performing again this year. If you get a chance, check out their music and their website as they are something very special.

We were honored to be one of many chaperones that accompanied our 40+ youth to Winterfest. For the first time in eight years during Winterfest, it snowed. Connor had only seen snow once before, and we are not sure if Mikayla had ever seen snow. Many of our youth had never seen snow, so it was truly sweet watching these young men and women running around trying to catch snow in their hands and on their tongues. The snow made up for having to stand in line outside the convention center at 6am for an 8am session. Hey, when 4000+ youth are standing outside singing praises until our Lord, that too makes 6am not an issue. (The Krispy Kreme donuts and hot chocolate didn't hurt either).

Mikayla looks adorable in her fuzzy hat and fuzzy trimmed mittens. She was, of course, the hit of the trip. All the kids wanted to take turns holding her, playing with her, and making her laugh. She is still a bit reticent around others, but she traveled great and had a great time.

We are really looking forward to next year's trip! Our youth at Maricamp Road are awesome, precious young men and women. Who says kids these days don't understand what life is really all about? Hey, Hoss, sign us up again! Posted by Picasa