Design Team

Presbyterian Youth Triennium Design Team.

Another family.

My support system.

My connections to places all over the United States.

I guess I should start as to how I got on this amazing planning team in the first place.

When I went to PYT, I had an AMAZING time..I got home, sat on my couch for a few days in shock at how amazing my experience was, and then I found out there was a planning team for it! I emailed someone, and said to wait until Spring/June for the Design Team application. So I waited. Very Impatiently. I checked the PYT website at least once a week..looking for new updates. I couldn't really talk about anything buy PYT for a while...EVERYTHING seemed to relate back to it! It's one of those things where if you just don't go...you don't understand..and if people you're talking to didn't go, they just want you to stop talking about it! So after a LONG time of PYT Page stalking, the application was FINALLY on there! So I filled it out..at first without telling my mom. (she is always apprehensive about things!) Then she found out and was fine with it. I had my 2 references, and even though my youth pastor said on the reference form that I grind my teeth, I still turned it in. I found out I was accepted when that August I got an email asking for my birthday. It was kind of an unexciting way, but I called my mom who was at Home Depot (i'm not sure why i remember this) FREAKING OUT, but i still had not received the official notice that I was accepted. So when I received the official notice, I was so excited. I didn't really know what to do. I told my PYT friends, but my other friends..well they were happy, but it just wasn't as exciting for them, because they had never been!

Our team was meant to be together. I had never connected with people so fast in my life. It was definitely a God thing. I had always taken youth conferences for granted i guess. Well maybe not that, but I never knew all the work behind it, especially with themes. After sitting in a conference room for 3 days digging through consortiums and bibles, I am SO thankful for the people who plan conferences on a regular basis! It's amazing to see and be a part of the work that goes into it. We're all so different, yet everyone is so amazing at the same time.

I now have connections to a lot of different places, so that makes me very happy. When I don't know what to do in a certain situation, or can't talk to someone about something in the location where I'm at...I call someone from Design Team, because I know that I can talk, and they'll just listen. I've made some amazing friends, and this is why Triennium seems so bittersweet. Don't get me wrong...it's pretty much one of the ONLY things I can talk about right now, but the idea of no more planning or meetings seems so weird! Luckily, I go to school in Mississippi, which means I can see a lot of people within a 6 hour drive.

I could go on...but I won't, because i've typed enough...so coming soon...design team memorable moments!

Design Team.

Best Thing Ever.

So hard to explain to non-presbyterians

and memories that will last a lifetime.