The Conference: Day 1

The day began bright and early. After staff prayer, all of the last minute set up commenced. Benches were moved, tents were set up, banners were hung, juice was made, and it was officially go time. By 2:00 my leaders were all here and the students were starting to fill the church. We had originally planned on having two out of town groups staying on the compound, but one cancelled on Tuesday and then the other I actually called about an hour and a half after the conference began to see if they were on their way, but they said something came up so they weren't coming. So we had planned for about 50 people to stay here at the church but that didn't happen, but "blessed are the flexible". It was a bit of a bummer not having those groups come after we had prepared for them and bought the food and other supplies for their stay, but as it turns out, there were so many kids who came just from Jinja alone, that we wouldn't have been able to fit everyone in the church. So yet again, God proved that He knows what's best and his plan is perfect. After worship, we had the small groups break up by age and they were able to do some icebreakers and get to know one another. We then had our first teaching by Richard introducing the theme of the conference being "Take Action" based mainly upon James 1:22 and putting emphasis on the kids not merely saying their a Christian, but living their faith. After Richard's teaching, we had some more small group time and then it was time for the volleyball tournament. We have one of our leaders who is on a volleyball team and so he knows how to officiate it and Richard did an awesome job as being the commentator, it was so much fun! We then rocked some dinner and watched Night at the Museum.