Retreats: a kitchen floor, a coffin and a whole lot more.
Super Bowl weekend each year is traditionally the weekend Reveille UMC youth go on their ski retreat each year, and last year was my first experience of it, first time I'd been anywhere near a ski slope. And while I didn't ski, I strapped my GoPro onto one of our students helmets and off he went with it. They skied, some of us tubed later in the day, we played some games back at the in, ate together, shared devotions together. All the usual retreat (weekend away in UK youth ministry parlance) stuff that we take for granted. I got back and immediately looked forward to the next scheduled retreat, Journey Weekend with Jeremiah Project in March 2020. Except it never happened. Thanks Covid-19. And won't happen this year. In a few weeks time I'll have spent over a year sleeping in the same bed, in the same house etc etc. Recently I've been doing 4 to 6 retreats/mission trips a year, and a trip back to Ireland as well, so it's usually only a few months at most bet...