SEYC
With the help of my friends the Santos family, I
found a hotel not far from campus, which I shared
with Samuel Santos. We arrived late Friday night,
maybe 30 minutes or so into the main meeting. The
featured speaker was Mark Finley of It Is Written, and all of his
messages were excellent. I also enjoyed seminars
by Dr. Ron Clouzet, who is a faculty member of SAU
and previous guest speaker at the General Youth Conference (GYC)
meetings. The messages were clear and powerful,
and I felt blessed spiritually to be there.
The SEYC meetings are modeled after GYC, and many
of the SEYC officers are previous GYC attendees. SEYC
is regional, so the number of regular attendees was
significantly less than GYC's. There were not as many
seminars to choose from, although the available ones
looked impressive. The event was shorter, running
from Friday night through Saturday evening, with an
outreach planned on Sunday. Unlike GYC, the event was
free, except we had to arrange for our own lodging
and meals. My friends Diana and Sara Santos and Jenny
Brain took care of my meals, including an awesome
Sabbath lunch with vegan lasagna and two kinds of
cheesecake. Yummm!
It was great to see so many people: My good friend
Adrian is an SEYC officer, and he introduced me to
some of his friends. The 3ABN road crew was there,
along with others from my home area, including most
of our local church young adult group. I was
surprised to see my cousin Greg with his wife Linda,
and Crystal and Wendell. We spent a few moments
catching up, and I gave them a "backstage" mini-tour
of 3ABN's production truck.
On Sunday I stopped at my mom's house on the
return trip to see if I could fix her computer. It
had been practically totaled due to runaway virus and
other infections, and seemed to have other problems
as well. (Note to self: Never, ever, ever recommend
an eMachine to anyone! For that matter, I kept asking
myself why I hadn't bought her a Mac. None of this
ever would have happened.) I had a major unexpected
setback: My mom had asked her phone company to
discontinue service. No phone meant no internet,
which meant major hassles getting the computer up and
running. It took me all day, but I finally got the
computer to a semi-usable state (everything installed
but the anti-virus software, which perversely refused
to install). Unfortunately I was not able to do more,
since I still had a 6-hour drive ahead of me. As it
was, I got home a little past midnight. Nice to be in
my own bed!
Oddly, my camera refused to work virtually all
weekend, so I was unable to take any pictures of my
friends or SEYC. However, I couldn't resist snapping
this photo of a horse and buggy passing by my mom's
house:
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