Confirmation Retreat at

April 18-20, 2008

The 4^th Annual Confirmation Retreat was held April 18-20 at Camp Lebanon in Lebanon, NJ. There were 20 students in attendance from churches in Hazleton and Macungie, PA and Clark, Raritan, and Galloway Twp, NJ. This year’s theme was “The Apostle's Creed.” Five pastors and a vicar led the sessions, teaching, utilizing lessons, stories, small group discussions, and other activities.

The gang’s all here!

Standing outside the Hoener Inn retreat house where we stayed and where most of our activities took place.

The group gathered for one of the sessions

Pastor Grams from Garfield, NJ and Pastor Jones from Raritan, NJ lead sessions.

Micah and Jason from Macungie (in Pennsylvania near Allentown) read one of the skits while their audience is riveted.

Some of the group.

Some of the girls waiting for Matins to start

Sometimes waking up is hard.

Pastor Vinovskis from Macungie (in Pennsylvania near Allentown)

leads a session outside on a glorious day.

Pastor V serves as "retreat mom"

Lunch is served!!

Vicar Mike from Clark leads a session

Justin drops a line in the fishing pond

A Cup o' Joe for Pastor Joe

Aubrey is served dinner

Washing it down

Enjoying the outdoors

A tree can be a relaxing place to hang out

Zach reading Scripture

Girls posing

Uh oh, there's trouble!

Some of the group getting ready to leave on Sunday