"" your grace is enough, your grace is enough for me..."

last week, Nov 19-22, i had the privilege to attend NCYC (National Catholic Youth Conference) in Kansas City. we've been planning this pilgrimage since January. we took 7 youth and 4 adults. there was planning-oh the planning-and fund raising OH my!

in the end it came down to 4 days and it was amazing!

the kids that we took hadnt ever been to a retreat of this volume before, and actually neither had the adults! i hadn't ever been to NCYC, we went to Rome instead..... and since this time i was "in charge" it was new for everyone!!

we had a wonderful group! not too big, everyone listened and was well behaved! we fought the crowds, fought sleep, and scavenged for food! that was the toughest part. the rest was just amazing.

i've been trying to think of how exactly to put into words what we experienced so that you will KNOW. but i can't. i just can't.
the Sprint Center was where we had opening and closing ceremonies each day. this arena holds thousands. its built for concerts and basketball games and such. we packed it FULL! then there was an overflow of a couple hundred that were down the street in the Convention Center. there was somewhere around 22thousand in attendance!
its always a shock to see SO many people loving the same thing that you do. if you go to an Aerosmith concert or an accounting convention! either one, its fun and easy to talk about the thing that you love. but to come together, with that many people, to talk about and praise God... is a different level! this is a high school retreat. so the majority of these in attendance were high school age, that makes it even better!

there were keynote speakers, MC's, bands and more! the bands were my favorite part! plus we all got to stand and wave our hands around and clap to the beat! its the best!

i have a feeling i could go on and on... but i'll just say again. it was a wonderful experience. i just pray that one of my youth came back with that "oh WOW"! (mine was Rome... that was my "oh WOW"!)

NCYC is in Indianapolis in 2011. AND World Youth Day (which is what my Rome was) is also in 2011 in Madrid, Spain. i have 4 sophmores that are telling me YES, we are going to Spain... eekkk!!
i'm ready!!


http://ow.ly/FGlO <-- Matt Maher Band.

Matt Maher is one of my new fave guys! he took time out of his tour to come and perform for us! he was amazing! this isn't the whole thing, but it will show you his song and also a glimps of the Sprint Center!!