Here's an overview of the stations as part as one exercise of the Spiritual Disciplines portion of the evening. These are in order of how our group experienced them, and to the best of my memory.
1) Hopwood Christian Church; inside the church pictures and stories of heros of the faith. Saints, teachers, professors, leaders, pastors, martyrs.
2) Derthick (classroom building); Make a word with Scrabble peices to describe Christ.
3) Tent of Meeting; in the old testament the people would set up a tent wherever they were camping to have church, and to pray for eachother. Curtis Booher and Phyllis Fox, the leaders of the conference, gave an invitation for those who may request prayer to come and be prayed over.
4) Student Union Building; after being prayed over before, and not having artistic ability I opted out of this one, just relflect on what's going on around me. Magazine articles and other arts/crafts supplies were made available for the students to put a picture together to represent Christ.
5) The hill facing the athletic fields. We all sat our on beach towels and just looked up at the stars in quiet reflection on God. In the stillness and quiet, we opened ourselves up for God to speak to us.
6) Behind Hopwood Christian Church; at a firepit we were given the chance to write down a sin we needed to omit and toss it into the fire. Being of Christ, we all new creatures, the old has passed away. On another card we wrote something we were going to commit to in order to keep away from these sins.
I get the feeling I'm missing a station; but I hope you get the overall magnitute of this event. They mean serious business. Doing this pratical things to intentionally let God in and speak to us. Not just brush him off in the busyness of our lives, "I'll someday give him my full attention." I feel I should say this again, there is no other conference like the Big Picture.
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