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Events, UCC Team Teens: LiFest 2001 1/10/2002 |
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Many of you reached out to us in a variety of ways to facilitate this trip. There were the prayers, the handshakes, the hugs, the smiles, the “you-can-do-it’s”, the cookies and bars, the supplies, the extra monies you shared, and the parents who shared their youth with us for the weekend. Thank you to each one of you. The following is an accounting of our trip.After loading our U-haul truck on Wednesday evening, we all went home to sleep the night in our own beds before we gathered at 5:30 AM on Thursday to trek over to Milwaukee in our small caravan...Bravada SUV (driven by Barb), U-haul small truck (driven by Danny and Sherry Jones), 15 passenger van driven by (Dr Steury). Even though there were a few new faces among the Team Teens and the kids from Our Lord’s United Methodist Church (OLUMC) in Milwaukee, you would have never known they hadn’t all been buddies since preschool. As we pulled into the parking lot of their church...around noon...everyone was told to help unload the U-Haul and help reload it with the addition of the OLUMC tents, sleeping bags, tables, etc. At the same time we were handing out our instructions to our kids, David and Lori (the OLUMC youth leaders and our daughter and son-in-law) were giving the same instructions to their kids. The picture was more like horses at a starting gate before the race begins. I was wondering if we could actually put very much more in that U-Haul, but between David and Danny Jones it fit...we did have to have the kids sit on the U-Haul door to get it closed. ;-) Our caravan grew to accommodate another 15 passenger van (driven by David) and a 9 passenger van (driven by Lori) as we motored the two hours to OshKosh, WI. We pulled into the LiFest camp grounds near 3 PM and after a long check-in line...which the kids were having a great time mixing up between all the vehicles...we proceeded to our campsite. It was a great campsite...well, it could have had more grass, but it was at the foot of an open stock building which was the location of one of the six stages named THE EDGE. THE EDGE is where P.O.D., SuperChicks, and many more of the loudest bands were to play....and those of us who were trying to avoid getting moshed could sit in our easy camp chairs at the campsite and watch the show, including kids moshing and body surfing. Every once in a while they would run over to our camp to inform us how long they were up body surfing, or who was body surfing over them and clunked them on the head...amazing we had no major injuries among our 36 people. Did I mention Doc was in the mosh pit? Silly man! (But I was NOT body surfing...RLS) The kids were divided up into work crews at the church in Milwaukee with each group having one of us adults as their leaders. So each day all the crews had to take a turn at carrying water, going for ice, making the meals, cleaning up from the meals, taking the trash to the local dumpster, etc. (I need to add here that usually the kids were coming up to us adults when it was time to do chores and asking what they needed to do. I’m not bragging on your kids, I’m just stating the facts!) We had set times for our meals and midnight (1 AM MI time) was set for everyone to return to the camp for devotions. Otherwise, they were free to go to the concerts, go swimming, try out the inflatable games, ride hot air balloon, connect with other youth from other groups, etc. Each night at our devotions, Doc would present the lyrics to one of the bands that would be performing the next day, scripture would support the lyrics, and the kids would discuss what the lyrics meant. After the prayer, the kids were told they could stay up until the last stage THE GARAGE ended at 2 AM (3 AM MI time). Doc was the designated person to stay up with the kids until they were in their respective tents. Everyone agreed the last day that he needed more sleep!!! ;-) We love him anyway, well, at least I do! The atmosphere at LiFest is one of people having a good time without sporting a bad attitude. Even when the lines were long in the showers or the bathrooms, you just didn’t hear people losing their temper with it. We had a situation where one of us left a wallet on the chair at a concert, walked back to our campsite...several minutes away, and when we realized what had happened we thought it would be gone. But when we went back, it was right where we left it. Last year one of the youth lost their wallet in the mosh pit and a youth from another group found it and gave it to them totally intact. Each of the bands share their testimony with all of us during their performances, and encourage us to think about the fact that God the Father made each one of us, has a plan for each one of us, and is anxious to walk with us through our journey. He isn’t trying to save the saints, He is here for all of us sinners. We all went to the Sunday morning service together at the Grand Stage in the fairgrounds. The speaker shared with us that at the NEWSBOYS concert on Thursday night, a fourteen year old girl, Leslie, had a bad asthmatic attack while enjoying the mosh pit with her friends and was taken to the hospital. He announced that he was happy to share that she was now out of the coma. Later as the campsites were being torn down and everyone was preparing to leave, a youth leader was going camp to camp looking for jumper cables. Doc had a pair and lent them to him. After some time he returned the jumper cables and thanked Doc. About 15 minutes later he was back and sheepishly asked if he could borrow the jumper cables again. He said that one of his youth was trying to help out and shut the van off to save the battery. Doc smiled and handed them back to him mentioning that he was certainly having a rough afternoon. The youth leader said, “You have no idea. That young girl (Leslie) that had the asthmatic attack is one of my youth and I just got word that she is doing much worse. It is not looking good at all.” One of the mom’s of the youth from OLUMC said to me “One of my greatest fears is that I will get to heaven and my kids won’t be coming.” That really struck me. We can’t be there to protect 24/7. God is with all of us 24/7. Bad things do happen. We want the best for our kids when bad things happen. That would be God and He is crazy in love with them (us, too). Some of the Team Teens came up to Doc and I after the Sunday morning service where they presented sponsoring a child from a third world country (LiFest uses Compassion, or there is also World Vision that we do 30 Hour Famine through) and they wanted to sponsor one of the kids through the youth group. Doc and I are thinking about it and how we would handle that, but it touched both of us that they want to reach out to those in need. Sunday night we returned to Milwaukee where a few of the OLUMC youth that could not attend LiFest joined our large group and spent the last night together. Several wonderful parents from OLUMC came in early Monday morning before their work to fix breakfast for all of us as we prepared to do our final packing and head our separate ways. WE were a much more mellow group heading back to Michigan, but the memories of times shared, bonds created, and many smiles will be there forever. Maybe for some of us this experience will give us a new appreciation of how important our journey of faith is to our happiness, to our purpose here on earth, and that worship is an everyday thing in everything we do. God provided for us in many ways. An awesome team (Danny, Sherry and Carter Jones) for support...I can’t count the number of times Danny had to unpack and repack the U-haul and never complained once! Carter charmed all the kids...OLUMC included. Even though Sherry had never primitive camped before (I understand this...until LiFest 2000 I thought primitive camp meant Holiday Inn Express!) she pulled it off without a hitch. The weather was great! Even Chicago traffic treated us well. | |||||||||||||||||
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