Rally

I was originally planning on posting a detailed history of the 2007 North Texas YRUU Rally. Now that the rally has moved a bit into the past, I don't feel the urge to go into much detail.

This was my first youth rally. The closest that I have been is to two lock-ins (to plan for this rally) and a Leadership Development Conference(LDC). The LDC is a much higher ratio of adults to youth, close to 1-to-1. At the North Texas Rally, we had about 130 attendees, of which about 100-110 were youth.

We had a Social Action project. Our project was to put together food bags for children in need at a neighborhood school. The program is run by the Tarrant County Food bank. Children who qualify for free meals through the school, would have bags containing ramen, peanut butter, fruit cups, juice boxes, and the like placed into their backpacks by their teachers while they are out at recess. This would allow the food distribution to be discrete.

The youth also held a worship, a talent show, a dance, organized a motivational speaker, and ran various workshops. They arranged meals, created a "mug book", and cleaned up. This was their event. Mostly, we were there to provide adult backup in the event that it was needed.

I must say, the rally was really cool. I regret that I cannot go to the next one in Oklahoma City. I will be out of town for my nephew's high school graduation.