The River Conference Day 4

Today, Saturday, is our normal kids club and youth program day.  The conference attended sections of both of these programs to learn about running events for the unchurched.  They saw a program with high levels of excitement and enthusiasm.  They saw that great effort went in to planning, preparing and running the event and into making it great for kids.  They saw adults preferring to see the kids having a great time to maintaining their own sense of dignity before other adults.  What they really saw was true love.

Erik Klar also addressed the conference on how to walk forward in unity. 

It has been a great conference.  We have had wonderful teaching, we have strengthened relationships within regional teams and between regional teams, we have laughed, loved and grown in God.  Someone asked Kraiwut if our church always worships with such energy and excitement.  He answered "only on 2 days of the year ... the days when it rains and the days when it doesn't rain".  The atmosphere of praise and worship that permeated the conference was certainly one of the stand out features of our time together. 


After a conference photo (Official conference photo will be posted later) we ate lunch together and people began their journey home.  This was the first conference that The River Team has run, I certainly think that there will be many more to follow!