Wednesday, July 1, 2009

Reformed Family Bible Conference


June 16th I with half of my family packed up the car and headed out towards Georgia, then to Virgina, for an elven day vacation to go up to the Reformed Family Bible Conference in Bluefield Virgina, which my family has been going to since 2004. We made it to Georgia with only one adventure which was that one of the gas lines sprung a leak and poured out one whole tank of gas. After going to church at Calcedon on Sunday and up to the Georgia mountains on Monday, we packed up Tuesday morning and headed out to Virginia.

We arrived in Bluefield around 2:45 and before long we where laughing and talking with old friends and having a great time! The thyme of the conference this year was on John Calvin. The talks where very good and I am hoping that we will be able to get the DVDs of them so that I can hear them again because there was so much in them I know there is much more for me to learn from them.
In between the morning lectures and the one in the evening there was time of great fellowship, I spent my time with three other girls my age during the conference and I really enjoyed getting to know them as we talked together, we also joined into the games of Ultimate Frisbee, and a little of the Nerf. After the last lecture we would head down to the gym where the dance practise was held every night, then Friday night the Barn Dance was held there too, the dancing was really a lot of fun we learned a new dance called the Posties jig which was so much fun! The Virginia Reel and the Square Dance where the other two that we did the most of and the each of the following we danced once, Salty Dog Rag, Gay Gorden, and a Gothic Reel which we had not done before.

After the conference us girls got to stay with the Carey family and it was so much fun! We arranged flowers together, went on a walk, and of course while doing those things and others we laughed and talked with each other of one subject and then the next. I hope we can do it again some time! :)

Sunday we went to Trinity where we got to talk with more then a few of our friends from the conference, which was a lot of fun. After the fellowship meal we had to say goodbye to everyone and point ourselves towards home, which at first was a hard thing to do but once we were on the road I was ready to be there.
After driving a little over a day with a tire that was no longer fully there and then having another blow out so that we had to have them both replaced, we arrived home at about 9:45 Monday night, where my mom, oldest brother, oldest sister, brother in-law, and nephew where waiting to greet us! :)
This shall conclude my post for now I will try to put up the pictures later.

The Texan~

5 Remarks:

John Calvin said...

I cannot believe y'all, did not buy the CD's while y'all were up there! I specifically told you to make sure to bring them back!
Oh well, I am glad you had a good time, even if it was perfectly miserable being left behind, and seriously, it was like I missed the rapture or something. I will be sure to make it up next year.

John Calvin.

Kenneth Hunter Burk said...

LOL "like I missed the rapture".... too funny it was a great time even with the disasters of car problems... It is definitly worth going to every year!!

Lauren said...

It sounds like you all had allot of fun Rebecca! We didn't even know you all were going to go this year, Jo wasn't sure last time I talked with her. Be sure to put up pictures soon! I guess we will have to wait to talk about the whole thing "in depth" next time we get together though :)...

By the way, there is some talk on our end of a fall visit - at least for some us and my Dad. But we will have to see how things go!

In Christ,

Lauren Ashley

Rebecca said...

Hey Lauren,
That would be great if y'all could come down! It already seems like forever since we were together. :)
I am sure we shall talk about the conference then, it would be hard for y'all to escape it. :)We really need to get y'all to go with us some time.

Love you,
Rebecca Marie

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