Spring Rhythm 2008 Review
This year Spring Rhythm was once again held at Hillhall Presbyterian in sunny Lisburn. It was a jam-packed weekend of fun, fellowship and a healthy dose of madness and although numbers were down on previous years there was a real presence of God throughout the entire weekend.
The theme for this year was “Since You’ve Been Gone” and the speaker Stu Neill brought to us the importance of the Gospels and in particular the Great Commission. This started on the Friday night when we were reminded to ‘keep the main thing (the Gospels), the main thing’. The band as usual was amazing and we had great times of worship throughout the weekend. After playing some games, we all went quietly to bed and went to sleep immediately. (Well, after 3 hours of football and table tennis in the guy’s hall.
After all being gently awakened by Dave playing the some rocking tunes on the Mac, we got up for a new day. The morning was spent learning a bit about some different outreach organisations and events – Celebration Of Hope, Abaana and Blythswood. After hearing these groups, we had the task of coming up with our own outreach ideas, which produced some really worthwhile results.
After lunch we went out into Lisburn to take part in some outreach. There was praise, prayer and testimony and of course the ever popular puppet ministry. The rain held off for us and we were able to reach out to those on the streets.
That night after another amazing time of worship and praise with Stu once again bringing Gods word to us, we had a bit of a social which was led by John McCreedy were Hillhalls new minister showed everyone how dancing should be done!
The next morning, we led the morning service @ Hillhall and again Stu spoke really effectively about taking the Gospel out into the world around us. After a great lunch provided again by our ever-faithful chef Nicoleo, we packed up and went our separate ways, until next year of course!
However, it was not all-good news, Dave the main leader announced that this would be his last year in charge. We are all sad to see him go.
Stephen
Hillhall YPCE
