Day 1 - Tuesday, July 1, 2008

Off to San Antonio, and believe it or not, it's before 8:00am.  We have never left early.  Michael Jimmerson's group from Landmark at England and Jeff Herring's group from Oak Park in Little Rock.  We are looking forward to a great trip.  Before leaving, we discussed the bus rules and had them load up by age.  Some of them didn't like that but it was only fair to let our older ones load the bus first.  Our schedule will be as follows:  Wednesday will be at Sea World.  Thursday, all of the youth will be participating in SOAR Serves.  All of them will be playing games with kids in the SOAR villages.  The kids will be from underprivilaged homes in San Antonio.  Each child will receive a gift from a youth at SOAR.  They are expecting 1,300 kids and there are 2,000 youth attending SOAR.    Thursday afternoon, Friday and Saturday morning, we will be at the SOAR conference learning about WORSHIP.  Pray the these youth have good attitudes as we enter the session and learn about what true worship is.  Parents you will be relieved to know that our bus driver, Bill Brady, is driving well, and we are looking at arriving around 6:00pm.  This is the plan.  Shrek just ended and the youth have all decided they have had enough Shrek; they're not interested in Shrek 2 or 3.   Time to move on.

Hopefully, we will be able to keep you updated each day with the happenings of the group.
Our awesome ride! 56 passenger bus!
Austin slept all the way to Texarkana
Our wonderful bus driver!