Last weekend we had our Upper Elementary Retreat:
60 + students
10 + adults
6 high school helpers
2 days
Theme: Mission Incredible
I will be sending out a newsletter devoted to this event, but I will give you a quick picture update to tide you over.
The retreat always focuses on three main areas: academic, spiritual, and physical.
Academic focus: SCIENCE!
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| Activity: Egg Drop Using common house hold supplies, students made a space shuttle for their egg. The shuttle and egg were then dropped from a water tower. Goal: create a space ship that will keep the egg safe upon landing. |
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| Activity: Solar Ovens Students learned about the sun and created solar ovens using pizza boxes. Goal: see how long it takes to warm up hot dogs. |
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| Activity: Assemble and launch rockets After a lot of reading, cutting, gluing, stuffing, and preparing, students assembled Estes rockets. Goal: See which group's rocket would go the highest and which group could retrieve their rocket the quickest after it landed. |
Spiritual focus: The heavens declare the glory of God; the skies proclaim the work of his hands. (Psalm 19:1)
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| We had a very dynamic and funny speaker share with our students about how incredible God is. He talked about how much God loves us (enough to send his son to die for us), how he has given the Bible as a map for us, and how he is always there for us. He encouraged the students to live for Jesus and to make a difference in the world around them. |
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| Pool time! |
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| Cannon balls! |
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| Ultimate frisbee with a great volcano view |
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| Hours of planning, tons of food, buckets of supplies = one successful retreat & very tired teachers |
Indescribable, uncontainable,
You placed the stars in the sky and You know them by name.
You are amazing God
All powerful, untameable,
Awestruck we fall to our knees as we humbly proclaim
You are amazing God
-Indescribable lyrics, Chris Tomlin
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