Youth Specialties Conference

The first weekend in November Natalie, Joel, Aaron, and Jenny and I headed to St. Louis for the National Youth Workers Convention. Natalie and I went several years ago when I was a youth pastor and we loved it so much that we wanted to have all of us go as a ministry team together.

We left on Thursday night November 1st and drove about 4 hours. We stayed the night in Effingham (what a name right!) and only had about 2 hours left on Friday morning. The conference started at 1 pm on Friday and wrapped up on Monday around noon.

It was a great experience for all of us. We enjoyed the speakers, the worship, the comedy night, and the good times together. On the way home we added a little more to the story by accidentally taking the wrong exit out of St. Louis heading north instead of east. We had a nice tour of Springfield, Illinois.