Wednesday Night

Wednesday at Hume:
Morning finds kids waking up a little bit slower but biscuits and gragy are worth moving for. Some truly extraordinary teens participated in the biathlon for their teams--before breakfast!!!! The swim was 200 yards and Saint Matt's dominated the top ten, with Ricky Niese in 3rd and Kevin Allan in 4th. The run was 3.2 miles around beautiful Hume Lake, Selena MacDuff came in 3rd for the girls, Matt Day came in 2nd for the boys and Ryan "Lil" Niese came in 8th for the boys.
We went from breakfast to morning worship. Morning worship was acoustic southern gospel (not Pastor David's favorite).
After worship there were 7 breakout sessions and students were able to chose two. The sessions included: "Staying Lit", UFC (untamed for Christ), "The Tangible Cross," "Tough Times and Sunday School Verses" and "What Nobody Ever Tells You About Missions." Afterwords we had a breakout session with our cabins to discuss what we learned and how it can change how we choose to live. The girls were so moved by the staying lit charge (to stay grounded in God's word) and to live out their commitment to Christ, that they went to bed late looking up and recording inspirational bible verses.
During free time we had 40 kids who went to "High Adventure" challenging the 50 foot drop of screamer as well as taking a leap of faith on the high ropes 40 feet up in the treees as they conquered their fear of heights.
The evening was finished off by a concert by Campaign and evening free time. The week has been blessed by lots of God moments. Teens feeling the love of God and His forgiveness. Its exciting to watch them shine with the love of God.
OHHH how could I forget??? We had four teams in the Basketball tournament. Eric Alman. shot a three pointer for his team (which included Zack Fitterer and Matt Abele), but the exciting games were the girls; Cassandra Lewandowski, Kristen Curry, McKenzie Brantley, who took first place (9:8) after 4 games of double elimination. Woot Woot!!!!
God's peace,
Kathy Fitterer
PS Hi Tom. I love you.