We spent over two months in the U.S. this summer and now we're back in Haiti. We went to a lot of different states and churches. One part of the summer I really enjoyed was the OMS mission conference in northern Indiana. It was at Wesleyan University. It was great! I feel like I learned a lot from being there. It was from a Thursday night to a Sunday afternoon. In the mornings, the youth would meet together and we had fun games and small groups discussing our spiritual gifts and how God calls us. Everybody had lunch together. In the evenings there was a service with missionaries speaking about different things like Homes for Haiti. Then there was a message. One night they talked about running the race from beginning to end. The guy giving the sermon said that sometimes as people get older, they slow down and forget what the joy of the Lord is. He encouraged everybody to keep going and run the race to the end. This fits in with a line I spoke in a church musical I was recently in. I wasn’t really a character in it, but I was part of the choir. In one of the songs called “Eye on It” I stepped up to the microphone and said a verse from the Bible: “Therefore, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles. And let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us, fixing our eyes on Jesus.” It’s just one of the things that stood out the most to me.
The OMS Conference was a great experience and I can’t wait for the next one, but I don’t
know when that will be. Here are some pictures...
This is one of the activities we did. We each had rope tied from one hand to the other. It was in-between the other person's arms, though, and you had to try to get your arms out without breaking the rope. Nobody could figure it out so my dad, who was leading the activities for the youth, had to show everybody how to do it. You have to loop your hand through the other person's loop of string around their hand.
This is the pool on the campus.
This is the cafeteria. They served great food three meals a day.
Early one morning there was a 5k run/walk for Homes for Haiti.
This is me running the first part of the race. Even though it says finish line in the distance it isn't actually the finish line.(We found out later in the race when we thought it was the finish and it really wasn't.)
Another youth activity.
They also had a rock climbing wall that was lots of fun.
Our friend, Bob Riggles, also lead the youth.
He and his wife, Jill, have twins: a boy named Turner and a girl named Lily Jo.
Us and the Riggles.
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