Winterfest

This past weekend was Winterfest, Blanchard Alliance Church’s annual high school retreat. This was the fourth time that Aaron has gone on the retreat, which was extra special because his small group is made up of seniors this year. Though Blanchard didn’t defend its championship in broomball, it was still an amazing weekend of fun, rest, and growth for all the students. The theme of the weekend was “Gospel,” so the primary messages were about God’s love for us and how humans respond to that love. The speaker was Rob Bukowski, associate pastor of Bethel Community Church in Chicago (another of the four churches that attend Winterfest). Rob was able to speak to the students in a unique manner because he was once the youth pastor at Bethel, so he attended several Winterfests as a leader, and before that, he attended Winterfest as a student at Bethel in the early ‘90’s. God spoke in many ways to the students from each church, and we pray that the commitments made will be prayerfully followed up on the upcoming weeks and months.