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It was a brand new experience for me. I mean, I’ve been on those rubber inner tubes they used to run up at MBC (which probably explains my initial trepidation in taking a group of grade 10 students tubing). As it turns out, however, this was nothing like that.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/megandsar.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-270 aligncenter" title="megandsar" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/megandsar-300x224.jpg" alt="megandsar" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tubing1.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-269 aligncenter" title="tubing1" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tubing1-300x224.jpg" alt="tubing1" width="300" height="224" /></a></p> <p>It was a lot of fun and a great community building experience for both of our groups. I generally heard positive feedback and many of them requested more events like this in the future.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tubing3.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-272 aligncenter" title="tubing3" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/tubing3-300x224.jpg" alt="tubing3" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/guys2.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-273 aligncenter" title="guys2" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/guys2-300x224.jpg" alt="guys2" width="300" height="224" /></a></p> <p>More than anything, this was really a chance to see my vision for Sr. High in action. I truly believe that small groups are going to be the core communities that Sr. High is made up of. As we move along, I hope to see more and more events like these happening through the context of small groups. The potential for community growth and relational connection is made all the more possible in these kinds of settings.</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/markandalex.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-274 aligncenter" title="markandalex" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/markandalex-300x224.jpg" alt="markandalex" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bentori.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-275 aligncenter" title="bentori" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/bentori-300x224.jpg" alt="bentori" width="300" height="224" /></a></p> <p>Thanks so much to everyone who helped make this event possible by lending us your vehicles, your house, your children, and your support. Looking forward to seeing more of these happen soon!</p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/megan.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-276 aligncenter" title="megan" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/megan-300x224.jpg" alt="megan" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/girls3.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-277 alignnone" title="girls3" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/girls3-300x224.jpg" alt="girls3" width="300" height="224" /></a></p> <p style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/girls2.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-278 aligncenter" title="girls2" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/girls2-300x224.jpg" alt="girls2" width="300" height="224" /></a><a href="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/guys.jpg" rel="lightbox[268]"><img class="size-medium wp-image-279 alignnone" title="guys" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/guys-300x224.jpg" alt="guys" width="300" height="224" /></a></p> <p>*Photo Credits – Alex Smith</p> <script type="text/javascript">tweetcount_url='http://benbartosik.com/?p=268';tweetcount_title='Adventures in Snow-Tubing';tweetcount_cnt=0;tweetcount_src='RT @benbartosik blogged';tweetcount_via=false;</script><div style="float:left;margin-right:10px;"><script type="text/javascript" src="http://widgets.backtype.com/tweetcount.js"></script></div><a href="http://www.google.com/reader/link?url=http://benbartosik.com/?p=268&title=Adventures in Snow-Tubing&srcTitle=benbartosik DOT com&srcURL=http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik"target="_blank"><img border="0" src="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-content/plugins/wp-google-buzz/icon/small_horiz.png" style="opacity:1;filter:alpha(opacity=100)" onmouseover="this.style.opacity=0.7;this.filters.alpha.opacity=70" onmouseout="this.style.opacity=1;this.filters.alpha.opacity=100"/> </a> </div>  <h3 id="respond" class="post">Leave a Reply</h3> <form action="http://springvalestudents.org/benbartosik/wp-comments-post.php" method="post" id="commentform"> <p><input type="text" name="author" id="author" value="" size="22" tabindex="1" class="text" /> <label for="author"><small>Name (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="email" id="email" value="" size="22" tabindex="2" class="text" /> <label for="email"><small>Mail (will not be published) (required)</small></label></p> <p><input type="text" name="url" id="url" value="" size="22" tabindex="3" class="text" /> <label for="url"><small>Website</small></label></p>  <p><textarea name="comment" id="comment" cols="100%" rows="10" tabindex="4" class="text textarea"></textarea></p> <p><input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" tabindex="5" value="Submit" class="btn submit btn-teal" /> <input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="268" /> </p> </form> </div> </div> <div id="right-col"> <div id="logo"> <h1>Ministry Commentary with a Hint of Professionalism</h1> </div> <ul id="right-content"> <li id="text-2" class="widget widget_text"> <div class="textwidget"><a href="http://twitter.com/benbartosik"> <img src=" http://springvalestudents.org/Benbartosik/tweet.png" alt="http://twitter.com/benbartosik"></img></a> <script src="http://widgets.twimg.com/j/2/widget.js"></script> <script> new TWTR.Widget({ version: 2, type: 'profile', rpp: 1, interval: 6000, width: 250, height: 300, theme: { shell: { background: '#333333', color: '#ffffff' }, tweets: { background: '#000000', color: '#ffffff', links: '#4aed05' } }, features: { scrollbar: false, loop: false, live: false, hashtags: true, timestamp: true, avatars: false, behavior: 'all' } }).render().setUser('benbartosik').start(); 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