Hey! Did you miss HiKoi last night? (Don't worry, I did too :/ ) But I gotchu with a recap so you can feel in the loop :)

If you came last night, YAY I hope you had tons of fun! The night started out at 7:00 with a prayer session before the HiKoi meeting led by this year's prayer director, Maxton. He reintroduced the theme, ON FIRE, and focused on the meaning of loving God. If you missed it last night, make sure to check it out in the future for encouragement and prayer with your friends and other people you might not get the chance to talk to normally!

Naomi then led Shuffle Butt, a game in which everyone sat in chairs that formed a circle. Everyone worked collectively to occupy an empty chair within the circle to prevent the person in the middle from having a chance to sit in the extra chair. To do this, the person next to the empty chair had to shuffle his/her butt into the vacant chair, and the action would be repeated to exclude the center person from the chair circle.

The game was followed by an introduction of the officers brought to you by Hannah and Maxton. Teams were formed for people to participate in a game of three truths and one lie, where they had to guess which piece of information about each officer was the lie. If the wrong answer was chosen, participants endured consequences, which ranged from physical punishments such as pushups and planks to typical youtube challenges like the chubby bunny challenge or the salty cracker challenge.

This week, Charmaine presented the first leg of this year's theme by sharing a video of the gospel. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K48-Li7lIfA The whole concept of the gospel was summarized into a five minute video in which a man told the basic story of the Christian faith using spoken word, which is kind of like a rapped sermon, but like rhythmic and super cool. (Check out the video if you have time!) A short time of reflection followed, and everyone had a chance to think about living out the gospel in their own lives.

Afterwards, people were split into pseudo groups, which are designed to give everyone a brief preview of what small groups will be like in following weeks. This week, Nikki led a game of Kemp, a card game. Bradley played spoons with the high schoolers in his pseudo groups, and Kristy had people get to know each other better through games of knee bopper. Gloria's group members passed objects around to each other using different parts of their body. Bryan and his pseudo group rotations played Zoo, and Sam's group played pictionary with pictures drawn with feet only. Come next week to experience round two of pseudo groups with this year's small group leaders!

Announcements:

Maxton leads prayer every week at 7:00 pm. Come pray and spend time with each other!

If you can't make it that early though, arrive at 7:30 for a night of fellowship in the second floor of the Hall of Truth :)

Have an amazing week! (See you next Friday?) :)

Lots of love,

Cheyenne