Ignite 2018

Just the other day we got back from an unbelievable week at Ignite. I got to see and get to know my awesome family of friends more. I miss it all so much and I'm so excited to see my family again in just 2 months for the gathering.

Day 1: arrival.

There weren't too many people from our church going this year, so it wasn't really crowded and busy in our chalet. It was quite calm when we got there. We just chilled, found friends, said hello and then in the evening we had our youth bonfire.

  

Day 2: Too many hills.

 For today in the youth we had to do a series of challenges, most of them weren't that bad, but ignite is in Wales, which means hills, BIG hills, and our leader decided that for one of the challenges we had to run up down this steep hill taking ball pool balls, one at time, to the top. Its was way too steep for only 11:00 in the morning. You get some great views from it though.

Later that afternoon I decided to go up the less steep bit of the hill and chill for a bit, this did include almost falling asleep on the hill though.

In the evening we had our youth meeting and then us family of friends headed up the hill again to have our annual worship session under the stars. There were more clouds less stars this year, though we did get a couple moments when the sky cleared and we even had a chance to see a shooting star.

 

Day 3: Talent contest.

For the morning my sisters and I decided to go into the main centre, as they were doing water sports for youth and it was a bit too cold for us to choose to get wet, so we skipped slip'n slide rounders and had a very spirit filled time in the main conference. 

The afternoon we just chilled, wondered and played a few games in our friends caravan.

 The evening we went back into youth as it was worship and a little preach from one of the leaders. After the youth evening, it was the talent show. To be honest I don't normally go to the talent shows, but we decided to go as one of our friends was performing.

Day 4. Last full day
The morning in youth consisted on basically getting revenge on our youth leader,
  
The afternoon was basically spent watching the annual cef'n lea football tournament.
 
The evening was spent winning in youth games and spending as much time as possible with each other by chilling in the caravan again.
 

Day 5: Leaving.
Well lets just say I was too tired to realise that getting up to see the sunrise after just 4 hours sleep was a stupid idea, so I ended up ill, but I must say, at the time, it was worth it because it was stunning.

We had to be out of accommodation by 10:00 am so we said our very sad farewells and set off on our 3 hour journey home. We got home by lunch time, but I basically just slept.

It was an astounding week. I honestly miss it so much more than last year. I grew so much as a person in just one week. I'm back to college in 2 weeks and I'm so grateful to God for all he has done in that week and over this summer in general.
The morning preach on the 3rd day in the main conference was exactly what I needed as I go into my 3rd year of college(gosh that sounds crazy). The lady that preached was talking about living a second choice life and taking centre stage. At one point in the week I had a chance to take centre stage as I prayed for someone. I am so over joyed with the way God worked in me that week, and the way he is continuing to work through me. This year hasn't even finished yet, and God has done so many indescribable things in my life so far this year.

I hope you have all been blessed this summer.
BeeBee
xxx