Girl Trip!!!
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In this last year, I have been craving some deep bonding time with the girls in our youth group. This happens gradually during Life Group Bible study, Club, Sonic & Starbucks dates, etc… but as we all know, there’s nothing like a getaway trip to bring people closer together. At the end of July, the Lord provided an opportunity to take six girls to my family’s cabin up in Red River, NM for 5 days (two of those were driving, but that’s half the fun!). God even provided a 7 passenger van through the Hayes family just two days before we left!
My heart for this trip was two-fold: First, that we would connect with God and bond together as sisters in Christ. Second, that we would simply have fun together… laugh, make meals, play games, have dance parties, shop, etc… And that’s what we did!
Every morning we spent 45 minutes alone with God and then came together afterwards to dig into our faith together. I brought some good scripture along with deep, difficult questions to the table and I was amazed at how God met with us in such a powerful way. We ended up focusing on how when God brings our sin into the light through confession to Him and each other, we can be free from shame and from the things that bind us. On our final day, we actually forgot to have lunch because of the depths to which our conversation was going! Though we did not plan this, one by one, each girl confessed their struggles and we found out that nobody was quite as alone in their sin as they thought they were. It was beautiful. We prayed and worshiped together for so long and experienced true freedom in Christ. Praise God!!!
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