Every morning, one of the Probe staff offered a different devotional. Friday morning Ray encouraged the students to develop the habit of thankfulness in all circumstances, and they shared a time of prayer of nothing but thanksgiving. |
An Ozark Mind Games tradition is that anyone who receives a care package has to sing for it at a meal. Here K.C. Vetter sings "By the Light of the Silvery Moon" with Sue Bohlin. Better to sing a duet than not to get the package at all! |
Todd Kappelman led a discussion of the Thursday night movie, "The Pianist," at breakfast. |
Students were interested in the discussion even if they didn't have a ton of energy. But this was the last morning, so we don't expect much. |
The time between lunch and the reading groups was "cram time" for a number of people trying to finish the reading assignment for that day. Here, Nick Haines and Grant Winnes read as quickly as they can and Ryan Dusek just sort of stands around. Or perhaps he is contemplating the nature of reality. You never know what's going on inside the minds of Mind Games students! |
A group of rock climbers took to the bluffs this afternoon. Nick Haines and Saunnie Knotts scamper up the rock face. Well, maybe not scamper. . . |
John Wray makes gravity and the right equipment work for him in standing perpendicular to the bluff. |
The youth praise band from Fellowship Bible Church in Little Rock led us in an extended time of worship on Friday night. They ROCKED!! |
In the final session, "Campus Christianity Revisited," Ray Bohlin reviewed the
concepts with which he opened the week on Monday morning. Instead of becoming Dr. Hymie Schwartz
again, he asked the students (kindly this time) the same questions he had challenged them with earlier: Why are you
a Christian? How do you know there's a God? Why do you trust the Bible? Then he gave them a short
answer to how he would answer those questions if someone were to ask him. All four staff
members asked students a question from one of our lectures; those who answered correctly got a
free book from the book table. Then students were free to ask US any question they wanted. Following
this session was a final movie.
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The Ozark Conference Center staff worked hard to put together an awesome coffeehouse
for us, making over the dining room and providing scrumptious desserts and special coffees and
drinks made to order. It was "open mike night" up on stage, where people were free to come up and
perform. The talent ran from singers/songwriters performing their own material, to Mind Games-flavored
skits, to funny songs (such as the ones sung by our worship leader Caleb Peavy, pictured here), to standup comedy. The end of the coffeehouse was a slide show of the whole
week featuring all the pictures taken with the Probe digital camera. At 2 a.m., the Ozark staff ran
a game of "Capture the Flag." Somewhere around 4 a.m., program director Cory
Pepiton burned CDs of all the pictures in the slide show for all Mind Games participants--an
extraordinarily generous gift from Ozark to us.
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The group photo of Ozark Mind Games 2003. Great week, great people, great memories! |