Hello One & All!
Hope you are all doing well! We love and you and miss you and take comfort in the fact that you are taking care of Boone in our abscence.
Just wanted to give you guys a quick update and sketch of what our day looked like today. Started off strong bright and early at 7 AM with a jog around downtown DC and all-around the National Mall for a group of 8 known as "The Running Club." Running in Boone is definitely scenic and quite the experience but running through downtown DC seeing the monuments is something else. It was definitely a good way to start the day.
Today can be summed up into 2 parts. After breakfast of Poptarts, bagels, Starbucks, and the likes we made our way down to the Mall to start our half-day of DC. 
After some serious game-planning and strategizing we all set out to our various points of inte
rest. Many of us went to the National Archives to see our Nation's founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A number of others went to get tickets to the Holocaust Museum. Some went to the National Art Gallery and many others went to
do the token "DC Monument Tour." We all took a lunch break and then were back at it for a few more hours before meeting up at 2:15 
to head to Registration and Orientation for the conference.
After some serious game-planning and strategizing we all set out to our various points of inte
rest. Many of us went to the National Archives to see our Nation's founding documents, the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. A number of others went to get tickets to the Holocaust Museum. Some went to the National Art Gallery and many others went to
do the token "DC Monument Tour." We all took a lunch break and then were back at it for a few more hours before meeting up at 2:15 
to head to Registration and Orientation for the conference.I must mention that our dinner spot tonight was a new place for our DC trip called California Tortilla. Many props go to the staff at California Tortilla. They got all 63 of us fed in under 30 minutes which is no small feat at all.
After dinner we made our way to the Convention Center to our first session of DCLA 2009. Tonight was an introduction of what they call "Big Room" which is worship, teaching, skits, hip-hop presentations of the gospel, musical performances, and whatever else yo
u can imagine. It is quite the experience and something else to behold. We captured a lot of photographs and video footage so hopefully sometime soon we will be able to relate the experience to you through video and photo. The thing that I am probably most excited about is the theme of the weekend. The sfocus and theme of the whole conference is God's Story and the Big Rooms go about training students in that story by walking chronilogically through the whole Bible over the course of our time together. I wa skeptical at first but we have already moved through Genesis all the way to the book of Joshua. Serious work. Fast pace, but presented in a way that is relatable on every level to where students are and how they learn and experience information. The whole "Big Room" experience lasted 2.5 hours but designed to be short-bursts and sections catering to the attention span of your teenager and us leaders as well. To hear the speakers tell the story of God's love and his work to redeem his people back to him is something that definitely stirs the heart of youth who feel wayward and pulled in so many different directions in their lives.
u can imagine. It is quite the experience and something else to behold. We captured a lot of photographs and video footage so hopefully sometime soon we will be able to relate the experience to you through video and photo. The thing that I am probably most excited about is the theme of the weekend. The sfocus and theme of the whole conference is God's Story and the Big Rooms go about training students in that story by walking chronilogically through the whole Bible over the course of our time together. I wa skeptical at first but we have already moved through Genesis all the way to the book of Joshua. Serious work. Fast pace, but presented in a way that is relatable on every level to where students are and how they learn and experience information. The whole "Big Room" experience lasted 2.5 hours but designed to be short-bursts and sections catering to the attention span of your teenager and us leaders as well. To hear the speakers tell the story of God's love and his work to redeem his people back to him is something that definitely stirs the heart of youth who feel wayward and pulled in so many different directions in their lives.On a side note A very own Robert Martin, former youth leader, current Appalachian Trail through-hiker, met up with us today so there was great rejoicing in reunions all around.
check back in tomorrow to see how our first "Labs" go and what the day holds for BUMC Youth Ministries.
Grace & Peace,
Andy
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