SnapShots » Winter Retreat http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog Celebrating God's work in Parkview's Youth Tue, 30 Aug 2011 19:39:46 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Escape: Winter Extreme 2011 http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/2011/02/28/escape-winter-extreme-2011/ http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/2011/02/28/escape-winter-extreme-2011/#comments Mon, 28 Feb 2011 20:34:04 +0000 glennw http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/?p=144

The whole group at Retreat!!

At 3pm Sunday February 27th Wild Kingdom returned from its 2011 winter Retreat. We got to spend an awesome weekend at Camp Timber-lee in East Troy, Wisconsin. We were joined this weekend by the band 38 Acres, who led us all weekend with music that glorified God and really made our times in worship fun and high energy. Our Speaker who was originally scheduled to come speak to us did not show up, but God in the sovereignty, provided us with J. Mark Lynch,  the perfect speaker for our retreat and a guy who had an immediate connection with the students. He spoke with us about how we are not alone, that God is with us and that God through Jesus Christ has saved us to himself through the brokenness of life; that we can Escape to Him though Jesus. But not only that Jesus saved us fromsomething but also to that we are God’s plan to reach a broken and hurting world. Enjoy the video, we will be posting some of the amazing stories of what God has done in the lives of the students here at Parkview. Here is the Winter Extreme Video for our week! enjoy! Come Back soon!

]]> http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/2011/02/28/escape-winter-extreme-2011/feed/ 0 WinterXtreme http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/2010/03/08/winterxtreme/ http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/2010/03/08/winterxtreme/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 19:09:33 +0000 dkoenigs http://www.pcc-youth.com/blog/?p=101 This past weekend  Wild Kingdom  loaded up on a bus and headed to Timber-Lee Christian Center in East Troy, WI for our annual winter retreat. We had a blast playing and growing together!

I’d like to share a few highlights I observed:

  1. On our bus ride up the driver  said, “Wow! Your group are angels!” I always enjoy it when other people think our group is well-behaved ;)
  2. I saw our group mixing up cliques really well! I saw middle schoolers connecting with new people and choosing to include each other!
  3. I loved how our group lead the way during worship times – no reservations!
  4. I saw middle schoolers freely praying out loud for each other!
  5. I was privileged to be part of conversations where middle schoolers chose to step up in faith!

My favorite middle schooler quote from the weekend: “I would give anything to be close with God!”

Please join me in asking God for more!

-Daniel

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God did some great things this weekend!

At our Winter Retreat this year we had a great time together and were challenged to Watch ourselves and our friends, Arm ourselves with the full armor of God, and Respond to God’s call on our lives. Over the weekend one of our students who is relatively new to our ministry prayed to receive Christ into her life! What a joy to see a young person surrender her life over to Christ!
Glenn

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