DNOW

Well, I can say that we survived another DNOW weekend. In all honesty, it was a fun weekend and well worth the time and energy it took to host the awesome group of girls that stayed with us. This year we had our 11th and 12th grade girls. There were five of them and the group leader Katy that stayed in our home. Just in case you may not know what DNOW is, it stands for Disciple Now and it is a weekend retreat for our youth. All the youth stay in host homes for the weekend and they spend time in small groups throughout the weekend, go to the church for a big group worship time and they also have a afternoon of recreation, paintball or bowling. As a host home we allow the kids stay in our home and we get to spend time with them and of course feed them good food all weekend. This is our second year being a host for this event and I always get such a big blessing out of opening our home to the youth. The schedule for the weekend is a little crazy. Friday night we provide dinner for the group leader staying with us, the kids arrive at our house on Friday evening at 7pm. Saturay we provide breakfast, lunch and dinner. They kids are in and out of the house all day on Saturday either going to church or to play paintball or bowl. Sunday morning we wrap it up by giving the breakfast and getting them all out the door for church. On Saturday afternoon while the youth girls were at their activies, Chris and Katie were running some errands and Bree was taking a nap. I decided to make some cupcakes for dessert for dinner that night. When Bree woke up I decided to let her taste test the cupcakes to make sure they were good. She didn't turn down the opportunity.

She downed the cupcake in about two mintues so I guess they turn out okay.

After snack she wanted to watch a movie, I thought it was cute how she was laid out on the couch zoned in on her movie.

Hannah, Lindsey and Sarah, back from bowling.

Group photo: Lindsey, Hannah, Adrienne, Chris, me, Katy, Sarah and Lauren. Katy was the group leader for the weekend. Chris he looks like what a guy would look like that just had a house full of teenage girls and two toddlers. LOL.

I thought this picture was cute. The girls stayed upstairs in our bonus room. They were playing a game and Katie and Bree wanted to see what they were doing, so instead of opening the door they were trying to look under it. I snapped this photo of them trying to see.

I'd have to say the most amazing thing that came out of this weekend so far is that one of our boys that is in our sunday school class got saved this weekend at DNOW. We have been praying for him and he decided to make the decision to accept Christ as his savior. When I saw him this morning at church I went up to him and gave him a big hug. At the end of our morning worship he went up to the front of the church to make his decision known and when he announced it all of the youth stood up and clapped for him. It was an awesome moment for me and I know for others. There is nothing more powerful then to see a prayer answered and to know that the Holy Spirit is there working in our lives.