This past week has been Spiritual Emphasis Week for the middle and high schools. This is a week where we focus on the spiritual side of life. We bring in speakers and have chapel everyday of the week. This year we had three speakers come, all from the great state of Texas: Duke Underwood from Lubbock, TX was the main speaker, a partner, Joel from Sulfer Springs, TX, and Duke's big sister, Mary Anne Kent from Austin, TX. It was really interesting to see how the three worked together, and they each brought a different dyanamic, a different perspective on life, and a different but just as powerful testimony. I think they did an amazing job, and I know many of the students were touched, challenged, and encouraged by their words.
At the end of the week, we have activities where the students can hang out with the SEW speakers in a fun atmosphere. This year they planned a Fear Factor event for the middle schoolers. We attended, but neither of us participated as they had absolutely DISGUSTING things for the kids to do.....eating marshmallows dipped in mustard....m & m's with ketchup.... carrying sardines from one side of the room to the other... drinking coke with a dirty sock around the can...and searching for clothespins in a bucket of slime with their feet. All stuff I find utterly repulsive, but of course, middle schoolers loved.
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