Fall Retreat 2008 details for this weekend!
hope you all had an awesome thanksgiving weekend!!! we had a beautiful hike with h2o on sunday, even though it was shorter than anticipated :) but it was a beautiful experience.
this week is the retreat, wooooley moley it came fast! this is a picture of jolly roger where we will be gathering this weekend! rides are still being arranged as the final forms trickle in. just wanted to provide the essential to bring list and times of departure.our focus this year is to "know Jesus and to love like Him" our focus is on developing our relationship in Christ and as a result of that relationship, being freed to love as He does. please pray for the retreat and prepare yourself.
essential things to bring: Bible, pens, papers, special health devices, last minute form and/or cheque (if you haven't yet, or forgot one of the two), sleeping bags, warm clothes, outdoor clothes (and change of clothes depending on weather), towels, toiletries, dry newspaper (for the campfire), instrument (if you are helping with worship), worship music
additional things: board games, group games, basketballs, footballs, baseball gloves and balls etc.
things NOT to bring: ipods, media players (videos, music, movies etc.)
please don't over pack as we will have limited space in the vehicles.
Please arrive at the church no later than 5:30pm on Friday and we will leave as soon as we can after that time! so see you on Friday! also, if your parents are able to drive (and you haven't let us know) please let us know asap. looking forward to spending the weekend with you all! God bless!
Gracefield village is located in Quebec about 90 km from Ottawa, these detailed instructions are available from the Gracefield website: http://www.gracefieldcamp.ca/documents/gracefield.routemap.pdf - please give these directions to parents if they are drivers.
posted by YF @ 11:07 AM
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