Today is Monday... the Monday after D-NOW. It was more wonderful than I had even hoped for and the youth and college participants all seemed to get a lot out of it. Our theme was about being a secret agent for God. Hunter built an obstacle course for everyone to go through on their way to the youth room complete with black lights, strobe lights, lasers, turnstiles, air ducts to crawl through, and dropping doors.  He had made it really complicated and it was a lot of fun for everyone to go through. In the bigger room, where all of the training sessions took place, we had made huge outlines of all of the different continents to cover the walls and we had targets on places that we knew of people who were serving as missionaries. We also had the outlines of secret agent men heading from country to country with targets on their hearts. They were all painted in neon paint so that the whole room glowed from the backlights that we had hung in the ceiling. As always, I was worried about whether I would be able to finish it all in time, but I had some incredible angels that swept in towards the end and finished it all for me. They were awesome. I think all of the decorations set a really good mood for the rest of the weekend. On Saturday, after the second training session, the students were regrouped in order to head out and confuse the enemy (Satan) by doing random acts of kindness all over The Colony and on the Dart trains and down in central Dallas. Everyone had a really good time serving others. A lot of the groups went to some of the older women in the church and planted flowers and cleaned up their yards. Some picked up trash all over town and some went to a nursing home to give out flowers and hugs and sing. Some groups went on prayer walks in downtown Dallas and passed out water bottles and Gatorade. Some went to the Jubilee Center and some went to Dallas Life shelter to clean and work in the clothes closet. It was a wonderful day! I wish you could have all been with us. We finished up Saturday night with a Masquerade Ball at The Tribute. It was magical. The students went all out in getting dressed up for the occasion. The girls traded dresses and went shopping together. Even the boys put a lot of effort into it. They all bought or made masks in all shapes and sizes. I can't believe how much they got into it all. It was so much fun watching them have fun. Prior to the event, we had given the students an opportunity to learn how to waltz and it was so much fun to watch them all dancing like that. I think the most wonderful part of the weekend came on Saturday night. After we got finished with the Masquerade Ball, we went back to the church for our last session and a very short small group time. The final event of the night was very special. In the front by the stage, we set up 130 silver masks. The students were encouraged to come to the front and write what God was showing them on the masks. Many of them wrote things that they were struggling with...things or situations that they needed to give over to God. We wrote them on the masks because so often we hide behind masks of our own making. They actually wrote on the masks in invisible black light ink. You could only see what they wrote when we were in the black light. Once the real lights were on, the words were gone. God can clean up our lives like that if we will let Him...The weekend was wonderful. Thanks for letting me tell you about it.