Practice Discipleship, Swamp Tour, SuperDome, and a Dance...just a typical Thursday here in New Orleans!

What do you call a day where you are up early, eat a breakfast of donuts and cereal in a hotel room, spend the morning in a fancy hotel practicing discipleship, run through the fancy hotel to make it to a Swamp Tour on the Bayou in time, hang out at the SuperDome with 35,000 other Lutherans for praise, worship and an amazing line up of speakers, and then finish the day by dancing in a ballroom on the 3rd floor of the InterContinental Hotel?  Well, we call it...THURSDAY!

We had a wonderful day!  Last night when we were "debriefing" and sharing with one another about the day I asked each person to share 3 things about their day with us. First, the most exciting or fun thing from their day. Next, the most memorable/impactful part of their day. Finally, the most difficult part of their day.  Most everyone said the Swamp Tour was the most fun.  I think it was because we all held an alligator! (Yep, really!)  The most meaningful for each one was worship and time in the SuperDome.  The most difficult for most (especially the boys who love drama!) was having to sit on the floor during the Practice Discipleship portion of the morning.  My thought is if that's the most difficult thing they encountered during the day, we must be doing pretty good!  

Check out the pictures from our day...notice the chaos of the dance party.  So many students and even some crowd surfing (which was quickly discouraged). Too many people, too tight a space, and too little deodorant = smiling faces and kids having a blast! 

Friday...we prepare to be in the Mass Cast at the Dome.  Continue to keep us in your prayers.

Love from US.

"But as I pursued that dream of upward mobility preparing for college, things just didn't fit together. As I read Scriptures about how the last will be first, I started wondering why I was working so hard to be first." Shane Claiborne