Youth Convention Report - Wednesday

For our morning service, our speaker was Shane Hipps.  Not only did he preach a good sermon about how every breath we take is a gift from God, but he taught us a dance.  As his surname is Hipps, he often gets asked if he knows how to move his hips. He decided to master one dance move, called the Booty X.  He taught us how to Booty X.

That after noon we ate lunch with Hannah, who told us about her work with Pink Mennos, an organization trying to get GLBT issues recognized during convention and in the greater Mennonite Church.

That evening, the topic for the service was "Race our Fears."  Speaker Jessica Shrock Ringenburg told us her story, and talked about her fears that resulted from the way she grew up.  She talked about facing fear.  At the service, we were all given mirrors.  We were told to write our fears on them.  On Thursday morning we offered our fears up to God. 

After the service we played hackey sack for two hours and ate ice cream.  Yum!

Claire