The weekend...

What a great weekend the Sclafani family had. This was the weekend of the All Church Retreat for the church that now both Jen and I work/serve - Calvary Chapel Seattle. It was up at the always wonderful Lakeside Bible Camp. The weather was gorgeous, the food [thanks Kevin] was tasty, the worship was moving [thanks Marc] the fellowship was beautiful, the soccer was muddy, the prayer times were awesome, but the stories were incredible. You see this year our church has gone through much change especially with moving into a new building within a new neighborhood/community. So we planned the retreat around rest and telling stories.

The 3 sessions were basically like this - stories of remembering our church's past with cool video clips of past pastors sharing the ups and downs of CC's history along with shared story from those who have been around for a while. We even had a giant timeline that stretched the length of the chapel with space to add our own stories from the past on it. Second session was Saturday night in which we went deep into our present situations in which people shared with boldness, honesty, and heart about the joys and suffering that is current in the lives of our church seasoned with much prayer and worship. The last session was on the future that we are not merely to be inward and us focused, but that we are called to be present in our community and culture. It was a time of dreaming, praying, and hope that was motivated out of the wonderful testimonies of Gods faithfulness in our past and present.

Besides the fact that we didn't sleep much and the likes we had a blast! Glady loved the camp, the ferry rides, and we even went to a pumpkin patch/petting zoo/ghost town on the island that she also loved. Below you will find some pictures from the weekend mostly of Glady :)

I hope you all had a great weekend too!

Oh, and thanks for reading and for all your comments!

I can't tell you what a blessing it is to me!

peace,

r