Big God in Forest Glen

A few weekends ago, I spoke at the Big God Fall Retreat for Heights Baptist Church of Temple. We traveled to Forest Glen Christian Camp in Rosebud, TX. It is a beautiful encampment and this group was a ton of fun. Jeff Burns, the YP, has been there somewhere around 15 years and continues to pour his life and love into the group. This was my second time to partner with him in ministry and it was, once again, a joy for me.

The material we went through during this weekend retreat was the "Signs" material I created a few months ago. It consists of several pictures I've taken from various church signs and we discuss what messages are being sent by churches via these signs.

The students were incredibly responsive and engaged in each session. One of my favorite sessions during the weekend took place on Saturday night, when a student had several questions about the topic (which led to questions that didn't necessarily directly connect to what we were talking about). I took some time to respond to his questions and felt that he wasn't the only one wondering about these things. After a while, the entire group was looking up different passages and reading them to each other looking for what the Bible said in regards to each question. It was pretty cool watching all of this happen.

Here's the group that went (these shirts are definitely the most unique shirts I've seen for a youth retreat!):


On Saturday night, we had a pretty rocking camp fire, of course with S'mores!

We also played a great game on Sunday afternoon that entailed grabbing socks from other players (tucked in like flags for flag football) without getting your sock pulled out first. This game got rather intense!