Warning: There's going to be a lot of typos cause spell check's not working. :O Faillll

Ok, there's a lot of different videos on YouTube and blogs about this topic, but I want to write about it too. So stick that in your juice box.



Yeah, I have no idea where that came from.



I failed last year. No, Worse than failed. I quit about a week into it. I didn't even try. It sucked and that's not going to happen again.



But I need MOTIVATION!



My status on Facebook and Y!M are both me asking for motivation. Bets, bribes, tips, ideas, help. Anything.

MISSY: I HATE THIS!!!

EMMA: I HATE YOU! :p

JAMIE!: NEW TOPICZ!

Haha. So now you'll never know how I was going to finish this. ;)

So I've been going to church for a while and the church I was hosting this thing called The Drive-In. Basically, this weekend I stayed at a vollunteers house with about 5 other girls and our group leader. Saturday morning we went to an amazing morning service, and then we had some small group time were we reflected on the service. We had some free time for lunch and whatever we wanted after that, and we came back to the church at 6 to eat dinner. About an hour after we all got our dinner, we went back into the church for the night service. After that awesome service, we went back to the host home. The next morning we woke up and went to Sunday service. Middle schoolers and high schoolers were at the same services most of the weekend, but to make sure everyone had room middle school went to the 9:00 service Sunday morning, and high school went to the 11:00 morning service.

Friday, I got to the host home after getting lost cause there were a TON of neighborhoods with the same name. We fell asleep around 12:00 (We were the only group who went to bed so early) and woke up around 7:15 the next morning. We headed to the church and listened to the first Saturday service.

I was not ready for the amazingness. I never knew pre-teen/teenage children could be so into it. The music was amazing, and everyone was singing and dancing. And you could tell that they weren't just doing it to be like everyone else. They were doing it because they were inspired and moved by the whole thing. The theme for this weekend was The Kingdom. The speaker was so motivating and so great. He really got the message across to us. We talked about what the kingdom is and what it's about, taking yourself off the throne and putting God up there all the time, and always showing other people to the kingdom.

Of course, it was a funny service too. The middle school leader dressed up as the Burger King dude, and the high school leader dressed up as Braveheart. It was hilarious. :)

For our free time we went shopping for the Christmas program our church is doing and then we ate at Stevie B's. One of the girls made a root beer float and it kind of exploded. xP After that we pretty much just hung out. Went to a park. Played some volleyball.

For dinner I had to bring a fruit and walnut salad from McDonalds to church since they were having chicken. After dinner we went to the Saturday night service.

The service started out funny. They played a video of the High school and Middle school leader dancing and singing to Party in the USA by Miley Cyrus. (They were in their "King" costumes!) It was hilarious. :)

And to back that up, the speaker gave a great service. At the end there were three groups up front. One was a group of people who wanted to get saved and accept Jesus into their hearts. The next group was people who wanted to come up to the steps and pray to God to help them choose the one thing that they needed to sacrifice (Another thing we talked about). The third group included about 33 Middle schooler's, including me, and a heck of a lot of high schooler's who wanted to get baptized. It was such a great experiance. It brought many people to tears. Everyone was serious about it, and I loved it.

All in all it was an amazing inspirational experience. Sunday morning I got baptized by the High school leader, with my friend who got baptized by our middle school leader. A couple other people that I know got baptized, and that was very moving. It just felt like the right time, and it's very hard to explain. I loved the Drive-In and I plan on going again next year. I made new friends, which is great, and I changed for the better. I'm so glad my church plans things like this and I can't wait to see what's next. :)

I also bought Matt Papa's CD (He's the singer for the weekend.) and I can not stop listening to it. :)
-Jamie