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Hello all who have not missed me.

Well it is time to give your eyeballs another workout or walkout, whichever comes first. I was gone a few days with the youth of our church to Georgia. It was a pretty good trip.

We left Friday morning around 7 am. I had to be at the church at 6 am since I was a chaperon and driving a van. We took three vans for 28 people and their luggage. The back seats of the vans had to be removed to make room for the luggage. Those seats were heavy.

The drive to Georgia was uneventful, which was good. There was not much traffic at all because of the holiday weekend. I drove the van with the middle school girls. It was not a terrifying as one would think. Most of the time they listened to music on IPods or the radio when we had it on. They were even nice enough to edit out the songs with screaming.

The camp was sponsored by Student Life, which is a Christian group that leads camps. Most of the time they are a full week, but we only went for three days since it was a holiday. Apparently this was the only time that the youth leader could get a reservation. The camp must be in high demand.

The worship was pretty good. The drama team did well with mix of serious and funny. The worship leader was a band with Jeff Johnson. He was good, but very loud. It always seems that music at youth camp is loud rock and roll. The speaker, Ed Newton, was very engaging and passionate about the gospel. He had some thought provoking illustrations and preached verse by verse with the bible passages.

The students were divided in family groups. So the youth group was split into different groups. I led a family group bible study. In my group I had five from Westwood, the church I attend. It was 3 boys and 2 girls. Then I had two girls from a church in Florida. They were all 9th graders. It was a good time. I hope I did alright. I had not led a bible study in many years. It is hard to get youth to pray in public or at least in a room with others.

I was surprised at the food. It did not seem to me kid friendly. I was shocked that there was no pizza or hamburgers. It was like a normal cafeteria. I do not think that some of the youth were impressed by the food.

The trip back was good also. I drove the same group of middle school and junior high girls. Traffic was a little heavier, but there were no problems.

I had a pretty good time and learned some things also. The youth were well behaved. I am sure I am leaving a bunch of things out, you will have to ask me about that to remind me.