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We are one week away from being in the Dominican Republic, and the excitement in the building is running high! To prepare us for the trip, we have Dave Hansen, president of Students International, speaking to us on how to do short term missions in a practical and healthy way. The first night was the importance of long term missions, and how Students International, which happens to be the organization that we partner with for

Tonight we traveled back into our childhood years as we all attended a ten year old birthday party. The guys did not take this lightly, as each of them, (except Sean), wore those obnoxious birthday hats and blew noise makers as we awaited our entry into the grand dining room. The night started off strong with special guest Terrifying Tucker doing a magic trick. The night continued with a gourmet meal of Dino nuggets and

We have had an intriguing past couple of days, partially due to the weather and partially due to this past weekend being the first winter camp of the season. Since this was the first weekend of winter camp, that meant that the tube run and snowboarding areas were finally open and they were each a blast to experience whether it was working them, which was fun because we got to see all the camper’s excitement over

I woke up this morning and thought: ‘it’s raining’. Infiltrating the dark and hush was a puddle in the dirt out the window, that wasn’t being very loud in itself, but it was enough to tell a tired student that a snowless winter was finally on its way to the white stuff. Hurray! Rain! ‘God is in the rain’ Fred said (that rhymed). He left only minutes before the writing of this blog (around 5pm),

This past weekend was a long one for most of us. Of all the retreats that Hume Lake offers in its wide variety of retreats the family retreat is the largest of them all. All the students ended up working the New Year’s Eve pizza train, which is when we all danced and handed out pizzas. The preview students showed up today. Preview is a great time we get to spend hanging out with potential