Summer Training Project

Wednesday night, project had guys and girl’s time once again. Disciples really enjoyed their time. Girls and guys met at their respective meeting locations and spent time asking questions to a pnel formed by team leaders.

As for Thursday, after a long day of work it was show time. Guys had to perform a synchronized swimming routine for the ladies in order to win a group date for the night. However, because of a storm the show had to be stopped, nevertheless, every guy’s room was paired up with a girl’s room for the night.

Disciples are starting to work on cleaning. They have been given a list with the different tasks that need to be done before everyone leaves project.

During last nights social, disciples had a lot of fun exchanging gifts, making gingerbread houses, and watching Elf. Each room dressed up creatively as angels, reindeer, shepherds, jingle bells, elves, and even a manger. They also had the chance to sit and take photos with Santa and Ms Claus, Mike Polley and Emilie Toll respectively.

<The gallery> which has lost some momentum the past couple weeks will be going through a major update sometime today, look forward to pictures from the past socials and more.

Students are surprised with the thought that in three weeks project is going to be over. However, most of the students are excited to go back home and keep developing these new friendships.
Yesterday, at evangelism training, James Gisler talked about “Mercy Ministry” being a part of our every day life.  Later on, students did something different.  Each room read an article about the doctrine of Hell, then spent time at the beach praying for people and meditated on “the  hideous doctrine may grip our souls in dark terror and make us weep, but let us be sure it also prompts us to holiness and compassion.” (John Thomas).
As for tonight, social is taking place at project.

Team Leaders (Reid Jilek, James Gisler, Josh Schrock)

Disciples enjoyed looking for the CCP team members during the Broadway at the Beach Social Time on Thursday night. Teams left at 7:15 then came back at 10:00 after walking around and taking pictures of each other following the crazy directions of the scavenger hunt. Jeff Wiesner’s team surfaced as the winners of a night full of entertainment to the disciples as well as the bystanders who got to watch or even take part in the antics of this week’s social.

Look forward to some great updates including pictures from the CCP Broadway at the Beach and another week’s highlights video. We have also prepared the sessions from this week for your hearing pleasure:
<Reid Jilek’s Life Training>
<Jack Thompson’s Bible Study Training>
<Elliot Stokes’ Theme Training>
<Adam Evers’ Leadership Training>
<James Gisler’s Evangelism Training>

Highlights from Week 4 from CO Minneapolis on Vimeo.

Disciples ate guacamole and danced salsa during yesterday’s social. After dinner, Natin Moreno led the project in a quick salsa lesson. Everyone in project enjoyed their taste of Hispanic culture as they ate guacamole, danced, and cheered as they broke colorful piñatas open.

Campus Time was led for the first time without the CO staff who left at various times on Thursday. Many of the campuses spent their time by breaking up into groups and praying, sharing testimonies, and contacting friends outside of project, or praying one-on-one on behalf of the other person.

This week’s encouragement verse is from Romans 8:18-19.

We recorded the testimony from Kari Lorence (Susie Lorence’s mom) and Andrew Knight’s talk at the parent social. If you weren’t able to join us, feel free to listen to it here:

 

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Project is now complete after the arrival of Alan Hoglund. He arrived Wednesday night after a long flight from Europe.
Project Dinner was promptly followed by Campus Time. Disciples got to exclusively spend time with individuals in their respective campuses after breaking up into smaller groups. During this time, they shared their reason for coming to Summer Beach Project and prayed for each other.
Bowling in style, or in the style of your parents, or even as old as your parents seemed to be the theme of Social Time Decade Bowling. Disciples dressed up in the various fashions from the 60’s to the future and went bowling at Surfside Bowling.

The gallery has finally been updated! See some pictures from the week including the Social <at the SBP 09 gallery>

For our Project Social this week, we played a game of “Bigger and Better,” the gist of it was to find something bigger and better than the other teams through a series of trades and bringing it back home to show off crazy items and funny stories. Some people came back with sofas, gum-ball machines, a colorful pair of bikes, and even jobs.

Random treasures are not the only things that are becoming “bigger and better.” We are all growing in community daily as we share in the word, eat, and live together. We also had our first Campus Time this week. Each group prayed for their campuses and God’s plans for us in the coming semester. On a lighter note, three group dates are already underway with others anticipated for the coming weeks.

The group picture was taken yesterday, hopefully this means that it will be up in the gallery relatively soon. Other pictures from this week have also been uploaded to the gallery, <check them out here>.