worship Blog and Journals

We just got back from Young Life leader weekend in Rockbrdige, VA last night.  The weekend was awesome but it feels good to be home and recover.  My body and mind are both tired from all the activity and long drive.  It's a weekend where all the leaders in our region (about 700) go to one of the summer camps to be trained, spend time, and worship together.  This weekend was probably the best one that I can remember.

We met 6 times over the weekend for a teaching and some singing in worship.  It's always a strange experience - a room full of 700 college students with their hip Crumpler bags and rainbow sandals.  Then usually some staff people come out to do program meaning they're wearing medieval armour or a nerd suit or some other crazy thing and entertain us for a bit.  Sometimes it's wildly offensive and sometimes it's just not funny.  Then we awkwardly transition into some singing to lead into a talk. 

This weekend was a really different experience for me though.  Firstly, there really was no program.  They showed a couple funny videos but they were short and forgettable.  Matt Garrsion, one of the speakers was incredible.  And the musicians that led the singing in worship were extremely talented.  They took songs that usually come across as really corny and bad to me and gave them life so that I really was able to worship through them.  It was a really great weekend that I hope is characteristic of the direction the weekends are going in the future.