Field Notes #23: Wet, Wild Water and the Word

Today was exhausting but super fun! I spent most of the day at Wet 'n Wild Emerald Pointe with the youth from HCUMC. Apparently it's the Carolinas' biggest water park. I'd been there a few times before, but not in a long, long time. I had so much fun hanging out with the youth and with the adults--that ministry is volunteer-run, and I love how committed and involved the parents and other adult volunteers are. I'm convinced that is the key to a successful youth ministry, regardless of whether or not you have a paid youth pastor. Anyway, we had fun, I am sunburned, and there will probably be some pretty goofy pictures of me from the van ride up on Facebook in the near future thanks to the multiple cameras in use while I was still convincing my body that yes, I did drink coffee this morning.

Part 2 of my Psalms class was tonight, and I had a lot of fun teaching that! I had a lovely group of attendees who humored me and participated when asked, which was wonderful. We talked about the Psalms and music, which I obviously enjoyed. We learned how to chant psalms, listened to a few tracks off the Psalms mixtape I made (also available, minus 2 tracks, as an iMix), and talked about how the Psalms can be incorporated into prayer and worship. Like I said, I had fun talking about the psalms and music, and people seemed to be interested in what I was saying. It was very cool. :)

On an unrelated but still awesome note, a friend told me she heard my name on 106.9 The Light this morning. As it turns out, I made their concert calendar because I'm playing at The Upper Room in Statesville this Friday. Way cool!

I'm off to celebrate by eating Froot Loops, vegging out on the computer and going to bed early.