On Tuesday July 22nd Carl and I piled the kids up in the car for the trip down to Portland where I was to be starting my journey to the National Youth Event (NYE) in Knoxville Tennessee. We arrived at Woodford’s United Church of Christ (UCC) around 6:45PM. After unloading the car and saying my good byes to Carl, Nick, and Ryan, I headed inside to start my advisor duties.
I was nervous of course because this is my first time doing anything like this but it turned out to be the same as meeting new people in the conference or at Pilgrim Lodge (PL). To no surprise though I am with a great group of people and they gave me the typical UCC extravagant welcome, and I gave the youth coming in the extravagant welcome I have been taught. The UCC is such a wonderful church and keeps giving me so many wonderful experiences to do God’s work and to “Pass it on.”
After a brief advisor meeting at 7PM the kids started to come in. I and Joel from Belfast had the job of coordinating the labeling of luggage and stowing it in the gym at Woodfords. Afterwards we did some ice breaker games to get to know each other, and then we split up into our small groups. I have been assigned three 16 year old boys from across Maine, Ben, Alex, and Tyler. We did some simple ice breaker games ourselves to get to know each other better and then we headed off to the nursery to set up our sleep stuff. Around 11PM we headed in and turned the lights off, but just like PL, the kids talked for another 30 minutes later and even a little longer. I would say I finally fell asleep around midnight.
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