Men's Retreat

My church had a men's retreat this past weekend which I attended. It is appropriately named a "Men's Adventure Weekend". It was held just out side the town of Bishop, CA. The group campsite that we stayed at was amazing. It was along an ice cold mountain stream and enough room for all eighty men. These were the activities, golfing (not adventurous), fishing, mountain biking, hiking, and off-roading with the jeeps. I participated in the last two (which, of course were the best). Friday there was a lot of us that did a twelve mile hike in the mountains. It was a beautiful day, a good hike and it even came complete with visiting a mine. On Saturday there were four jeeps that went off-roading up in the mountains, it was a spectacular ride, until we had to turn around because of to much snow, right around 11,000 feet high in elevation. In the first picture here it is Kevin, myself, Keith, Ryan, and Ryan's '85 Jeep. The jeep ran like a champ all day. The next picture is looking down the valley where we camped. The campground where we stayed at is in the bottom of the picture. A little disappointing because it was a sweet trail that we were on. All of the men received a copy of the book “Twelve Ordinary Men” by John MacArthur, which discusses the lives of the disciples. I am excited to begin this book. Friday night Steve spoke on the apostle James. Saturday night Doug spoke on the apostle Peter, and how his name was changed, but when he faltered a in his faith it would be reverted back to Simon or Simon Peter. Both speakers had great things to say, and had great questions to follow up with in small groups. The small group discussions were so good, simply to just talk about life among fellow Christian men. Saturday morning we had a short church service and it was another time to challenge us as men and the lives that we live, wherever we are. This is just a glimpse into the weekend. The pictures sum up the weekend themselves, there are more pics coming...