Church Retreat!

For the church retreat, we went to this gorgeous camp called "The Grove at Red oak Lake" and it was so pretty! That week we had been having weather in the high 90's and 100's, but the weekend of the retreat, it cooled down to around 85-90 degrees!  We were all so thankful! We got there around 10:00 am and that was just when the devotion was starting.  (The youth went to a different workshop than all the adult did.)  Our speaker was really good and we had it on the pavilion.

During the devotion

After the devotion/workshop we headed to the dining hall for lunch, (which for a camp was pretty tasty :-) Then once we ate lunch we had 3 hours of "free time" to spend.  We first went down to the lake and let Dante go swimming, in which he got a lot of "crazies" out! haha.  There was a enormous water slide, a lake to go canoeing on, a swimming pool, and lots of trails to walk on.

The cabins.

The water slides.

 We just walked around and explored the campsite a little bit, and before too long, it was already time to walk back to our second workshop.  Again, we headed to the pavilion, and after that to dinner, which was really yummy!  After dinner we went to the auditorium for our third workshop, which was combined, and we had a worship service too. We had the privilege of hearing Dr. Seal preach as our guest speaker, and his son taught the youth workshops.

The auditorium.

Dr. Seal preaching.

The praise team!

The last and final day (Sunday) we just had morning service, which was our fourth and last workshop, and it was so good!  Afterwards, we got a group shot of (most) everyone in their tee-shirts!

They even gave Dante a shirt :-)

It was such a fun retreat with church friends!