Follow
Up in Katoomba last weekend with the youth group from church at KYCKstart, a conference aimed at high-schoolers. It was my first KYCK, and it was absolutely gobsmacking to see a couple of thousand youth and their leaders meeting in a big tin shed in the Mountains singing, learning and praying together. Apart from the main session talks, the free time we had with the youth from 180 was just so fantastic for getting to know them better and for everyone to gel.
Unfortunately no photos from me since I only took the video camera (which I subsequently got busted for since you’re apparently not meant to film anything at the conference). But I’ll steal some photos from friends and post some up - thanks Susie!
Highlights include:
- Driving up to Katoomba with Andrew, Matt, Nate and Ringo.
- Getting lost at Katoomba station, taking the wrong turn into a dead end road where a bunch of drunk homies were hanging. Nearly ran one over as he sidled in front of our car as we tried to frantically do a three-point turn to escape.
- Great meals and great times sitting around and just talking to youth.
- Challenging and refreshing talks, reminding us of the cost of following Jesus, and God’s unconditional love for us.
- Capture the flag on Saturday arvo and being stuck in jail with Simon. Our team won!
- Lightning Charades and everyone getting involved. Matt trying to act out ‘birth’ and ‘egg’ one after the other.
- Late-night poker and chilling with the leaders and youth in our house.
- The drive back, getting stuck in traffic on the Great Western Highway and running out of petrol, having to drive back to refuel. Then taking massive shortcuts along small roads parallel to the railway line, basically avoiding all traffic. Andrew being woken up by a nasty gravel road.
- MSN display names or messages from the youth after KYCK, including “Kyckstart was fabulous x100000″, “Take out the knife, make the cut” (a big idea from one of the talks, about sacrifices to follow Jesus), “KYCK was GGGreat, thanx leaders”, and “K is Y the C best K”
