Do Fire and Water Mix?

Oh Yea! How? When you get a whole bunch of teens together who have tasted God’s living water and are therefore on fire for Him, that’s how. And that’s what the last H2O was like.

Okay, it actually didn’t start out so well. See, we were not even suppose to have this H2O. We were planning to have the H2O in January and then not have one until early March. But the ice storm took care of the January H2O, so in February we tried to reschedule. The only problem was that we couldn’t find a place to hold it. So, on the Wednesday before we wanted to have the H2O, Mrs. H2O called Treva S and asked if we could used their church to for the H2O. Treva called the church and got everything arranged for us by Thursday. So, even though we weren’t even suppose to have the H2O, everything worked out at the last minute. Funny thing is almost everyone was able to make this last minute H2O. And it turned out the be one of the best!

We started the night off by playing one of are our favorite inside games: Do You Love Your Neighbors? It was great, and after everyone had gotten used to it again (or in some cases for the first time) Mrs. H2O broke us into five different teams and assigned each team a color. She then put a color on every chair according to the teams. The goal was to get your team in chairs with your color on them. This put a whole new perspective on the game as each team tried to move their players to their chairs. It actually ended up being quite a short game as one of the team got all their players to their chairs really quickly. (I don’t remember which color won, maybe someone on that team could help out?) Anyway, after that game we re-divided into six teams to play the Skit-in-a-Bag game.

It would be totally impossible to describe the six skits that came out this time. Anyone who saw them knows they were hysterical, and anyone who hasn’t seen them is missing out big time. I don’t even know what it say about them, only we’ve decided that those involved in them must be crazy. If you want to see them again (or for the first time) talk to Mrs. H2O: she has them all on film. Oh yea, and everyone should know that 4x4=8! :)

A picture form The Three Home Stooges, a story about the social (in)competence of some "home learned" triplets.

Amanda and David in American Idiot, a "chance for the average Joe to make it big."

Joy, Drake, Jessica, Heather, and Rachel in Boredem Busters.

James in The Safety Pin Murder. He hunts with a safety pin, because "he doesn't believe in guns."



After the skits we had dinner. We all sat in a big circle and ate and laughed and generally had a good time. During this time a funny (or disgusting) thing happened. Mr. Competitive took a grape and passed it to his neighbor who passed it on who passed it on and so on. The grape, I am proud to say (or not), made it all the way around the circle, though if looks could kill it would have died. Anyway, once it got back to Mr. Competitive he promptly ate it. Don’t ask us why we did this, ‘cause I don’t know.

When dinner was over we went into prayer time. Now up to this point the H2O was good: here it became awesome! We started off like we always do taking prayer requests for anyone present. Then we started praying. From the very beginning the focus of the prayers was on our group and it’s needs more than any other H2O has been in the past. It was wonderful. Then as soon as we had finished, Mrs. H2O said, "Hey guys, we aren’t really finished. There are a lot of kids here tonight within our group that need prayer for decisions they had to make about their future. So, anyone who needs prayer for something tells us know." We then went around the circle with everyone who was graduating, choosing a college, going on a missions trip, or any number of other things speaking up and asking for prayer. After this was done, we all prayed again with each person being lifted up by someone. Let me tell you it was awesome! The Spirit of God was there in our midst. We could feel His Presence as we lifted each other up to Him. Life touching: oh yea!

After we finished praying, Mr. L (Drake’s dad) stood up and talked to us for a little while. He told us that he had never really stayed for an H2O before and that he was really impressed. He told us that he wished he had had a group of teens like us when he was growing up. He told us it was something special we had there.

To close the night off we went into praise and worship. We were at Evergreen church so Caleb turned on the keyboard and sound system for us. David played the keyboard, Zach played his guitar and Colin plugged his bass into the sound system. Pretty soon James and Elizabeth had joined them with their guitars. It was great! The keyboard and bass added a ton and having three guitars was wonderful. We sang until parents started to arrive to take everyone home, then wrapped it up for the night.

All in all it was one of the best H2O’s ever for me! ( Maybe the best.)

Shield Maiden