During the weekend of Pentecost (the second day of Pentecost is also a holiday), we organized a study weekend for the church down at camp. God obliged with be-a-utiful weather and it was an amazing weekend!
Everything was centered around the letter to the Romans - the lessons, the activities and even the food. It was great to see how everyone pitched in to make it a special weekend. Scott and Ruud did some exegesis and practical lessons and Stephan gave his first sermon on Sunday morning.
Several of the young people helped out with our workshops: on nature, art and language. Shareya and Isha helped with the art by teaching the participants how to make Roman sandals and mosaics. Stephan did a workshop on nature photography (see the results here). Philip Dela taught us some sign language and Scott got his participants to write new songs (another six for our book! Go here and click on the "Liedjes" tab to hear our songs. The ones at the end are the ones from this weekend.)
We endeavoured to do things together - even making our food. So we made a huge bowl of fruit salad and quite a few vegetable skewers for the Saturday dinner. Add to that all of the great times just playing, walking, sitting and talking and you end up with something we are definitely planning on repeating! (click on the picture above to see more from the weekend)
