The focus of the retreat was on youth leadership. We focused on what the Bible teaches us about being leaders, more specifically I wanted them to learn how to be a Christian leader in our youth group. I am working to get the youth to take more responsibility over their youth group. Youth need to be given more opportunities to serve inside of the youth group that they are a part of. Taking time to encourage other youth in the group, walking along side new Christians and new members coming to youth.
I am training them on how to serve in the church and why they should serve in the church. Some are already serving as teachers for children, leading Bible studies at home and school, and one day some may go into missions themselves or be leaders in churches.
We also had different times during the retreat to have a quite time with God and to meditate on Psalm 119. We focused as a group on the first 40 verses of this long chapter, but God used it to really open the eyes of the kids on how we are to treasure God and His laws for us. It taught them how to talk with God, to ask God for help in teaching us, caring for us, giving us understanding and wisdom. These things are mostly overlooked and under emphasised in churches today, and most definitely youth are not getting taught these principles.
When the retreat was over, the kids were quite excited to get back to our town and start using what God had taught them. They are also excited about getting more youth involved in "THEIR" youth group so that more youth can learn about God, Christ, and salvation that only come from God and through Jesus Christ.
Attached is a link to all the pictures from the trip.
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Robi and I were looking through all the pictures of you and the kids. It looks like everything is just falling into place in His way, His timing. We loved seeing the pictures of Eden - so much different than when we saw it as we were there in winter, and we loved hearing Linda and Boet's voices on the elephant video but it makes us miss them even more. Say hello to everyone in your family and all of our friends there and know that you and yours are in our prayers.
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