Wow, can it get any closer?

Sorry, no pictures at the moment, but a few things to think about and enjoy.

This morning we had a particularly worshipful time together. We sang about the Precious Blood of Christ, "O the precious blood, that flowed from Mercy's side, washed away my sin when Christ my Savior died. O the precious blood of Christ the crucified. It speaks for me before Your throne, where I stand justified."

We were confronted with the redemption of Christ through the example of a dirty prostitute being brought into the house of God, clothed with a beautiful wedding dress which covered her dirty clothes, and then married to Christ. What a great God we serve who is gracious to bringing declared enemies to be with His family.

Everyone finished with the workshops and the feedback from them is very positive. The students seemed to really appreciate Frank Pasquale's workshop of purity in the spiritual disciplines. Especially challenging was his testimony.

After that we spent the day playing games in the gym (in which the Red team dominated). No injuries to report. Currently we are watching the teams perform their lip syncs to practice for tonight. So far, they have been very entertaining. I'll post more tonight on the final totals for the teams. Here is where they are right now

1st- Blue with 658,000
2nd- Green with 635,500
3rd- Red with 622,000
4th- Yellow with 619,000

As you can see, it is still anyone's game with a 75,000 prize for first place in the Lip Sync.

On a more spiritual note, the students seem to be responding very well in the small groups. Many of them are acknowledging sins and areas for growth that will hopefully produce a lot of fruit in the coming days. Keep praying that the energy holds out for them and for Jordan and I as we are both functioning on about 3 hours of sleep today. God is being gracious and getting us through the day and we are looking forward to our bonfire/ testimony time later tonight.

Keep praising our gracious God for what He is doing with the students. More to come tonight...