Lake Junaluska 2008!

As many of you know, I am currently on a Music Retreat with RHUMC’s Music Ministry. On Sunday, June 26th, 2008 our team met at RHUMC to take on this exciting adventure. We loaded up the church bus and headed to Lake Junaluska, North Carolina. Lake Junaluska is a Methodist Retreat Center in the Appalachian Mountains. Church groups can come on retreats or come to conferences surrounded by God’s natural beauty, his creation. We arrived at the lake at about 2PM checked in with the Music Liturgical Arts Week 2008 staff. Once we were given our cabin keys, we unpacked the bus and settled in.

Music Liturgical Arts Week (MLAG) is centered around three main aspects of today’s traditional worship scene: voice, handbells, and dance. As most of you know, traditional worship isn’t exactly my preference, but MLAG enables worship to truly come alive. I’m here mainly for handbells, but MLAW offers 3 seminars each afternoon. Many of these seminars deal with the planning and conducting of creative and captivating worship. I have been excited to be able to attend a few of them so that I can take what I learned back home and put it to use with our Youth Worship Team.

Overall, we’re all having a wonderful time here at the lake. Please keep us in your prayers as we finish off the week and travel home. Thank yall so much for your support as we learn how to better our church’s worship!

Lake Junaluska 2008 Team Members:
*Jason Moon
*Yoon Nam
*Terri Jarrell
*Hunter Odom
*Caleb Ingram
*Adrienne Warren
*Allison Lott
*Mary VanDerHeyden
*Brittany Jarrell
*Callie Harkness
*Miranda Cooper
*Anna Lott
*Audra Warren
*Joanne Moon
*Christine Moon

From the Hilltop,
Hunter Odom
hunter2444@coastalnow.net
Romans 8:28