mur-c-mi

Radio Silence

I am so, as the Brits say knackered or I also like the word shattered as well. I’ve not posted and I was supposed to. I started one post on Saturday nite, but some times its just too much work for me. Then add to it that with the exception of one nite I’ve been getting less that four hours of sleep since I got here. But, regardless this was a great conference, great people, great fun, great food, great treats at Tea time. There were around 250 kids that attended. 90 or so of those are going on some sort of summer mission trip. There were seminars that covered all kinds of topics from living as “missional” communities to sharing your faith with a Moslem to a video school conducted by a professional who works for the BBC. (I'm writing this at O'hare)

I mentioned that the conference was held on a YWAM base, but what I didn’t mention is the transformation that took place in one of the buildings where most of our meetings were held. When this site was an orphanage there a working factory for some kind of textile business that provided an income for the children’s home. This factory building was partially being used for some DTS training meetings, but the rest was a messy storage area. We brought in carpet, hung stage lights, cleaned, painted, and shoveled out the remaining two sections of the building. After the evening worship and teaching sessions, which was in the center area where everyone sat on the new carpet, we ended up hanging out on old couches until after midnight in the revamped café area. One of the 24-7 guys did his Boiler Room magic creating a very cool industrial meets Ikea feel to the space. This hang out time was just as important as the meetings and seminars. People were “networking” with one another, encouraging one another, praying for one another and just enjoying God together.

In an upper room that looked out over the middle section, which was probably the site foreman’s office, the prayer room was set up. Andy Freeman had magic too as he created a wonderful space for people to focus on the Lord. The cool thing was with all that was going on the prayer room was manned just about every hour from Friday 6P to Monday 6P.

The weather finally got nice too. By Saturday the rain had pretty much stopped and on Sunday into Monday it was quite warm. It still wasn’t warm at nite though. I joined Carla to take our turn at the nite security rotation. It be cooooollld.

So a job well done I’d say. “Cheers” to the 24-7 crew - bless you.

posted by kt @ 7/14/2005 12:56:00 PM