Sunday, 19 August 2012

Saturday, August 18: One very full day!


No reports from the ground level tonight… We had midnight worship this evening and didn’t leave the TCU Place until 1am. The group has gone to bed and soon will all be fast asleep. We had an amazing day filled with celebration, singing, worship, laughter, conversation, adventures around Saskatoon, dancing, clapping and a whole lot of fun!!

The group participated in two forums each including: Song Writing, Christian-Muslim Dialogue, Vocation – You Have an App for that, Youth Speaking Justice CLWR/PWRDF and Bull with Bill. Hopefully tomorrow a few members of the group and write down some of their thoughts and experiences to share with us all.

The afternoon was spent having Explore Saskatoon time. Some of us enjoyed the hotel pool while others did some shopping and wandering. Our sixth Large Group Gathering was filled with tons of energy. There is nothing that the energy of 800+ people singing, moving, praying, and celebrating! We also got to hear our own Bishop Barbara talking about “Going Viral”.

Late night spots of the evening consisted of Dance, Jam session, Improvisation, and quite time/games room. And then evening worship started at midnight. It was all wonderful but the day was full and long… which means it’s time for sleep.

Tomorrow our day starts later but we have to load up all of our stuff onto the bus so that we can depart from Saskatoon once the Gathering is over and start our journey homewards.

More tomorrow after we’ve all had a good sleep, a final celebration and maybe a nap or two on the bus!

Breakfast Time

Alex S. and Phil

Clapping along!

Lunch time!!

Waiting, waiting, waiting with Drew, Devon and Adrian

Mathias, Peter and Alex E.

Jaime and Jolynne

High energy evening Large Group Gathering

Yep... this is what a theatre with 800+ youth and leaders looks like!

Bishop Barbara share with us

Smiles! :) 

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