It challenged me, it convicted me, it inspired me, it pinned down exactly where I struggle and pointed me to God AGAIN AND AGAIN.   Ultimately it was God doing the convicting and inspiring, but he did it through Worldview Academy.


There are four main things that I absolutely loved. 

ONE- Quiet time every morning.  I can't say how cool it was to see all these teens spread out around the campus, sitting on the sidewalk, leaning against walls, bent in prayer on a bench.  And they're all experiencing things with God, they're all learning from his word.  It's incredible!   We get 25 minutes to just sit and have our own private quiet time with God, and it was truly one of my favorite parts.  That and worship.  Worship at the end of the night was so wonderful because it brought my focus back to God and allowed me to revel in his awe-inspiring beauty and majesty. 



TWO- The lectures were literally mind-boggling. Chock full of spiritual truths, verses, and motivational quotes.  I took so many notes and I learned so much.  plus it was fun to talk with different peoples between lectures and compare notes and eat one too many Luna bars.  (did I just say that out loud?)



(haha now you're looking at her mouth)

One of the coolest part of the whole week (especially during the lectures) was how they always pointed it back to God.  "Be yourself"?  DON'T BE YOURSELF! Yourself is icky! Be like Jesus!  "You're different than the world?" Only because of Jesus are you different. 
Now I'm doing it with my thoughts.  "You did a good job with that, Chloe."  *perspective shift* Only because of Jesus did I do a good job.  ONLY.  That's a constant battle I'm waging.  Don't get me wrong, I don't always catch myself doing this. It's so natural, it's so right, it's so self-centered.

FOUR- Evangelism on Wednesday.  Not only did we learn all about our faith and other faiths, but on Wednesday we had the opportunity to go out and share what we'd been learning!  We split up into little groups of three or four campers, and then went onto the Missouri campus and just talked with the college students there.  It was so incredible, and so eye-opening.  Sometimes I unconsciously think that people only really  believe what I do, since those are the only people I come into contact to!  But that is obviously a lie, and after talking to non-Christians, catholics, Christians, and people with no faith at all, it strengthened my belief that I really do have my hope set on a strong rock. 

THREE- The people. My small group was so different and so fun!  We had a Joy, Sarah, Caroline, Maddie, Arayia, Aubrianna,  (they were twins) and Atalie. 








I have more pictures but LOADS more memories and little things I couldn't begin to go into.  Like how awesome it was for the guys to always take our plates or hold doors open for us or even let us go ahead in the food line.  Or the color team relay at the end of the week!  What about the pitiful attempts at frisby?  Or the two hour long talks during free time? 

So incredible, and I can't wait to go back next year. 

I'M BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  *hugs everyone*  I missed you all so much, and I have plenty of pictures and memories and such to share with you all:) 
Summer Workshop, in a word, was epic.  One whole week of being people who love to write just like me, who will do sword battles and cup games and who will dress up in costumes and don't care what you look like-they love you all the same.
The sessions were incredible, I have seriously never been so inspired in all my life!  My critique group was really fun as well, and I felt like I got a lot of really good feedback.  Here's a picture...

This was where we spent a lot of time as well, just hanging out and trying to beat the rush of people wanting to get ice cream.