i-35 southbound.

This past weekend was Norman Public Schools fall break. We took the middle school and high school leadership teams at church on a retreat down to the big D. We left on Thursday, Oct. 21 and came back the following day. Lots of fun, fellowship, friends, and food. The timeline consisted of:

some worship time, thanks to Erick Taylor

Dinner at Chuy's Mexican Restaurant

Creighton, Lydia, Schlegel (one of the other high school interns), and Braden

Lydia, Spencer, Sarah, Tino (middle school youth director)

games, games, and more games!

Chris and Scott (high school youth director)

the winking game...

the winking game (as seen above)

Have one circle of chairs with one half of the people sitting in the chairs. The other half need to pick a chair to stand behind. The object of the game is for the people in chairs to switch spots with someone else in another chair. However, they cannot say a word. The people in chairs have to make eye contact with another chair-goer, wink at each other, and quickly get out of their chair before the person behind them grabs their shoulders and makes them sit back down.

hanging out with the youth

Schlegel, Kayla, Lydia

serving at the North Texas Food Bank

Scott and Lydia

all of the BASIC (Brothers and Sisters Under Christ) and FISH (Followers in Service to Him) kiddos (the leadership teams for middle school and high school).

After getting to sleep in my own bed on Friday night, we arose before daybreak to head back south on i-35 for a day at Six Flags over Texas. A few weeks before (when I was in NYC), the youth attempted a day at Six Flags, but it ended up being rained out. A similar story unfolded on Saturday, Oct. 23, but most of the kids got to ride a few rides before having to call it a day due to lightening. Overall, it was a fun weekend, ending the whole thing with the Middle School and High School Hayride, a long-running tradition at McFarlin. That will get it's own post hopefully tomorow :) toodles!