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Middle School Retreat
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Each year Liberty hosts the annual High School Retreat. This 2-day, 1-night event is a great way to kick off the school year as students and staff return to campus. There are three major themes/points of emphasis at Retreat each year
1. Spiritual Development - Each year a speaker is brought in to challenge the school in their Christian walk. Topics in year's past have included Living on the Edge, Real Discipleship, and Living for God Now. These two days are always a time when God's Spirit is able to move in our student body in a unique way.
2. Student to Student relationships - Every year at Liberty there are new students who join our school. High School Retreat provides a great way for them to be introduced to the school and have a chance to acclimate into the student body in a relaxed and informal setting. Additionally, Retreat is an opportunity for returning students to renew friendships that may have lost touch over the summer as we head into the school year together.
3. Teacher to Student relationships - One of the things that makes Liberty Christian School distinctive is our faculty. Our teachers are personally involved in the lives of our students and High School Retreat provides the perfect setting for that to begin. Each year as teachers and students have a chance to interact over games, food, chapel, and campfires, the groundwork is laid for a mentoring relationship that will continue to develop over the coming school year.
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"On September 9th, at 8AM, the entire Liberty Christian Middle School loaded up and headed to Mounds State Park. It was time again for the Middle School Retreat! This year's retreat centered around our Middle School Discipleship Groups. These are small groups that all students are placed into at the beginning of the year, and they meet consistently throughout the school year. The purpose of the groups is to provide a smaller place of community, fellowship, fun, and spiritual discipleship that will involve all of our Middle School students. Our students spent the day in their groups, competing against other groups in various games, designing art projects to reflect the spiritual theme of the year, and sharing times of devotion and prayer. All who were there will tell you what a great time it was and how God was able to work through the day to set the tone for the year to come. Please pray that our middle school students will use this year as an opportunity to impact the world around them for Jesus as they try to live out the lessons of the retreat."
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