Day Three at Senior High Conference - Service Day

Today's the day when we do something different.  No classes today, no chaplain's time.  Instead we go out and actually live out our life in faith.

We take one afternoon of our time together and offer it up to God's service in the world.  This year we went to St. Peter's Episcopal church in Westfield to help them with a big painting project.

We started the day working on an all conference project led by Mother Ellen.  She taught us a little about prayer beads in religion and the Anglican Rosary in our own tradition.  Then we made our own!  It took a lot of patience and hard work because some of the parts are very small.

Michelle is working with one of those little tiny pieces.

After lunch (TACOS!  And we couldn't stay for seconds.  Great disappointment.) we got into the cars and rode up to Westfield.  Once we got organized we got a lot done painting two rooms in the church.

Team Miller hard at work with Nate leading

These are the covers for the heating units in the rooms we are painting.



They were spray painting the ceiling in the Bailey room so we had  masks
It was still pretty smelly!

It was four hours but it was a HARD four hours.  At the end we could walk out knowing that we had done work in an afternoon that might have taken much longer for the church without our help.

Then we went home and took showers!

After dinner and singing with Chuck our evening activity was a conference olympics.  We played gaga-ball, played religious jeopardy and a team candy toss.

Our days always end with Jay time when our conference director leads us through some discussion of the day, then Compline and our end of day song.

Sleep sounded like a great idea about then.