Yesterday, 5 of the youth from church came over to my house to work on cleaning up my yard for the entire day. In return, I said I’d pay their way for the youth retreat coming up. I was pleasantly surprised how hard they all worked. Though of course at times they goofed off by pouring water on each other, I never had to push them to work. I just told them what had to be done and they went off and did it. Today at church, I gladly wrote out a check to pay for their retreat registration.