This weekend was soooooo good!! Friday night kicked off the weekend with Men's/Women's night. Lyndse ran and spoke at Women's night and she did such a good job!!! She shared a little of her own testimony and really related struggles in our own lives to truly understanding and valuing the fact that we, as children of the King, are His beloved and what that means for our own lives. Not gonna lie, I have sat through so many Women's night type things, that often I tune out or half-heartedly listen to things I tell myself I've heard a million times before, but Friday night was just what I needed. Lyndse did such a great job relating to everyone in the room and making the subject and our identity in Christ so REAL.

Saturday we has another outreach. 10 of us traveled to a small town a couple hours away to run an "Ultimate Training Day-Camp" with a small-town school of about 40 athletes. The stories coming back were so good. Our students taught a couple of the Principles to middle school and high school kids while helping them with training and technique in their own sports. They ended the day with a mini-SPECIAL which went great and really impacted the kids.

The rest of us went to Denver for the day to do some inner-city and street ministry. I was in a group that went to a park to play Kickball with some neighborhood kids in the morning. So much fun loving on the kids and just giving them and outlet for the afternoon. After that, we went downtown to the 16th street mall (much like Madison's very own State St) to start conversations with people and try to bring the Gospel in. I had some good conversations with people started with a game called Salarium, which works to relate pictures to people's view of themselves and God in order to discuss salvation.

Sunday after church, the whole house went on a whitewater rafting trip for the day, SO fun!!! We went down the beloved Poudre for the afternoon, going through rapids pretty consistently, some as high as Class III. I fell out once when we hit a rapid sideways, and then was pushed out TWICE by the two "gentlemen" in our boat, all three times without any negative repercussions besides being soaked and maybe a slight lack of trust for the others in my boat ;) No, but really it was a lot of fun just to mess around and hangout all day with our boat mates. I don't think there was anyone who stayed dry all day, but everyone had fun. By the time we got to the drop-off point, we were all soaked and pretty cold, I think the water was only about 55 while the air was almost 90, but it was a great day to just have fun with everyone and not have to worry or be stressed about responsibilities in the house.

That night, there was a big worship service in City Park called "Praise in the Park." A local church organized the event for all the churches in the area to come together to form a worship choir and band and then lead worship from a big stage for the evening. Seeing the park filled with people all worshiping together, united for Christ, regardless of denomination or background or age or whatever, was so encouraging. It reminded me that no matter what is going on in life, in the house, any apprehension I'm feeling or struggles I'm facing, at the end of the day, it's all about HIM.

Now, it's Monday again. This morning I spent some time with God, reading, writing, whatever, and then hung out with Bryttany for a while. Now, obviously, I'm spending some internet time at Starbucks and tonight Lauren is talking about Heart for Growth. I have been working with her a little in the past week to help her put everything together, I am so excited!!! God has given her some great stuff to say and I think this is the perfect time for this talk in the house. I would really appreciate it if you could, please pray that God will be with her and give her words to speak; also, that He would open and prepare the hearts of everyone in the house.