Lock-in – How did it go?
It went well.
The night was planned as 9pm to 8am for the youth with the adults arriving about 8pm. I got there at 7:45 to help get started.
We ended up with about 14 youth and 5 adults. Only 2 people who had signed up failed to arrive.
The evening started out (after some setup) with a group “introductions in a circle”. Then we moved on to “Hula Hoop Dodgeball” for about 45 minutes. At the end of the dodgeball anybody who participated ended up on the concrete floor trying to soak up the cool from the concrete – it was VERY energetic.
We followed that up with pasta and ice cream (no, not at the same time).
We had a very good serious discussion about life and faith.
We then had a lot of unstructured time. There was one room with multiple video games. The chapel contained a jam session complete with electric guitars, piano, drums and later acoustic guitar. I played drums for possibly the first time in 18 years or so and I’m glad to see that while I was rusty I still remembered a lot. (Muscle memory runs deep if you do something long enough) A few youth were impressed with my rendition of Wipe Out. In a third room we were showing movies for the rest of the night.
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About 3:45am I went to the designated quiet sleep room and tried to sleep. I was joined by another adult and a youth later. We all got up for good about 7am.
At 7am we cleaned up (very well) and held a very short worship service (during which 1/2 of the group was asleep at any given moment). Then the parents started arriving and we headed out.
This was mostly a fellowship event, but the serious discussion was very deep and very serious. There’s a layer of profound depth hidden below the external picture that our youth project.
I slept most of Sunday, and took Monday off from work to reset my internal clock. I think I’m 80% back to normal now.
I had fun. I got to be me – the authentic real me as opposed to the me that I have to show the adult/working/controlled image world – with a group of very authentic people. It was a pleasure.
Besides – how often do you get to play drums in a church at 3am?
First Lock-In
I’m a little nervous.
I’ve been working with the youth at the Presbyterian Church of Lawrenceville for about a year now. In that time I’ve been there for them at regular Sunday night meetings, gone on one overnight retreat at Camp Johnsonburg, and worked and taught the Confirmation Class. All of those were easy – it was like falling off a log for me. Even the teaching didn’t cause anxiety – I knew the material and knew the confirmands and I knew it would go well (and I think it did).
Here’s the thing. We’re having a Senior High Lock-in Saturday night to Sunday morning. The PCOL lock-in tradition seems to be a “no sleep” tradition. I believe that space is provided for sleeping but it sounds like the majority of the youth will be staying up all night. I’m OK with that.
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I’ll be fine. The retreat starts at 9pm, so I suspect the adults need to be there about 8pm (I haven’t actually been told yet). It ends at 8am. I’m planning to take a serious nap on Saturday afternoon, have nothing planned for Sunday, and I’m taking Monday off from work to reset my sleep cycle. I’ve volunteered to chaperone the sleeping room (assuming that can be done while asleep). I just might be tired and a bit cranky at the end.
It should be fun!
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