Youth Weekend Away

With Amanda going on maternity leave soon, a youth weekend away was squeezed in to the schedule. None of us could believe how quickly it had come round. I drove the big blue bus down to Kent with our small group of 11 and 12 year olds. There was some frost on the ground on Friday night, but none of us expected to wake up to frost like this!

(yes that is the high ropes course you can see among the trees, we opted out of this activity!!) It looked like snow. However the extreme cold caused our pipes to freeze, and a change of location on the site. It was the beginning of a very cold weekend. The theme of the weekend was Love. Three sessions on loving God, ourselves and others; led by Amanda Steve and myself. There was only eight youth, a nice number I think and discussions were always productive as they all wanted to learn more about God.

There was also an afternoon of archery in at least minus 3 conditions!! But all in all it was a good weekend. As Amanda often says it is nice to create memories for them to look back on as we do from trips away we had when we were younger.

(faces obviously blurred out due to their age!)