Beach Week! Holla!

I'm not gonna lie...I went in to beach week unsure about how it was going to go. Thankfully, I was knocked off my feet by the things God did, and the awesome high schoolers I got to meet. This is our team: Magneto! The theme for the week was heroes vs. villains, and we were definitely representing the evil side. Mwa ha ha ha...

One of the late night parties - rave night! Loved the black light dance fest, complete with glow sticks and neon paint! I even sported some neon false eyelashes :)

Nothing beats spending time with the Lord on the beach. I even spotted 4 or 5 dolphins in the water one morning!!! I heart Laguna Beach, Florida.

Our team about to spray paint our Magneto shirts. Gotta represent the villains!

Love this girl! Kelly and her team, Syndrome, pumping each other up during rec. We don't take competition lightly here!

Some of our fearless leaders enjoying some free time on the beach. I happen to think the guy in the middle is super hot. Maybe we should get married... :)

Precious time with my group. Each of our lives were forever changed by this week, and I could not have felt more humbled and honored to be a part of their lives.

Jacie, and her team the Incredibles. Had so much fun getting to know her and her husband better this week. They made the 16 hour ride home seem like nothing!

Bumper tube soccer. Running around in inner tubes, in 90-something degree weather isn't for sissies. I loved hearing the hilarious chants each team came up with through out the week!

Baptisms in the ocean on the last day. What an awesome picture of the new creation God has made in our lives.

The holy grail of rec. Heroes and villains competed the entire week for this baby. Near heat strokes, bruises, exhaustion and other various injuries were all worth it for the VILLAINS! We get to have our names on this trophy for an entire year. Chillin' like a villain...

Trying to keep our eyes open, both from the sun and very few hours of sleep. We loved our last morning on the beach, and couldn't have spent our time doing anything more valuable that week. Soooo thankful for the opportunity to have gone to Beach Week 2010!!!

This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" - and I am the worst of them all. But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life.

1 Tim 1:15-16

(Shout out to Pam Yates for letting me swipe some of her pics from the week!)