Team Five is BUSY!

HELLO! Shayla from Team Five is here blogging.

This week has been extremely busy in the office in Smiths Falls. So much has been going on; we had an awesome Life Night on Advent, went to the school to play some music for the Advent mass, Some of us got our H1N1 shots, went to the school for our lunch program 'MERGE', and finally spent most of our time planning for the Edge Crew training retreat.

The Life Night was so much fun. All the teens had to dress up, and we didn't tell them why. Basically it was a New Years party for the Advent season, but after playing games and socializing for about a half hour, the life Night went on with a talk that I gave, and some prayer time. The party part was so much fun, especially with 35 teens! We began it with a game of Pull-Up. That game is so awesome. It's one of those games that never gets old because you can always make up new moves. It is also a way to just loosen up and have a lot of laughs. When we got into the meat of the Life Night, I gave my talk on Advent and it went really well. I felt like the teens gave me their attention so that was encouraging. This Life Night was just so much fun not only because the teens were so great but also because a few of my sisters came to visit me. That made my day. We have awesome pictures of all the teens that came. The picture in the top left is of Rebecca and I with one of our teens. The picture in the bottom right is of Tom with two more of our teens.

On Wednesday we went to St. John's CHS for 'MERGE' and played a remake of the game Evolution. Basically the theme was Christmas tree. You would go from seed, to sapling, to Charlie Brown, to Christmas tree. The thing that was different wiht this version was that if you won rock, paper, scissors, you went up, but if you lost you went down a level. We were trying to drive home the point that life is a rollercoaster and when you fall, you should still try to get back up. We ended the lunch program with a powerful testimony by Tom. He had the attention of the teens the whole time!

The rest of the week was spent doing some crazy planning for our Edge Crew retreat which is starting tomorrow afternoon and ending Sunday afternoon. We're all hard at work working on talks, skits, adoration, and many other little things that have to be prepared for this weekend. We're all prepared though to have a blast, not to mention it will be our first weekend retreat! So exciting.

Team Five is signing out until next week. We are praying for all the other teams out there. We have one request from everyone that reads this. Please pray for our retreat this weekend, and ask the Holy Spirit to work through us and in the teens. Thank you.

God Bless,

Shayla
Team Five