Hello Church Fam,

A group of 59 of us (16 middle schoolers, 25 high schoolers, and 18 chaperones) just got back from our youth SpringHill weekend retreat and it was a really powerful weekend! There were over 900 people at the winter teen retreat from churches and youth ministries throughout our state, and the weekend is filled with fun activities like ice skating, broomball, paintball, laser tag, high ropes course and the like. Our group brought home the broomball championship again this year! There was also powerful worship, great small groups, and our main session speaker did a great job of sharing the gospel and the theme of fanning the flame of your faith (from 2 Timothy 1:6) in a way that was engaging and challenging to teens. I love that our church does this retreat to impact our youth for Jesus. So many of our teens invited their friends who came as well. A huge thank you to Chelsea and Ayla for all they did to organize and plan and lead our amazing retreat this year. And thank you to everyone who prayed for the retreat and who contributed through the bake sale, pop can drive, and through other means; you are all deeply appreciated!

Nik Spasovski, on Behalf of the Elder and Minister Team