It's been over a week since we returned from our first trip to the Planet Wisdom Tour. This gathering for junior and senior high students, held 13 times in various cities throughout the year, returned to the Twin Cities for the eighth year. Hosted by Grace Church in Eden Prairie at their fabulous church campus, this conference challenges growth-level students to deeper levels of discipleship.
I'm really surprised that I hadn't heard of the Planet Wisdom Tour before this year. Mark Matlock, the primary speaker and the driving force behind Planet Wisdom's ministries, spoke at the SHIFT student ministries conference at Willow Creek this past spring. I was impressed by his presentation and began to research Planet Wisdom and this tour. Although this was our first year to attend it definitely won't be our last! Every student that attended had an excellent time sharing, learning, and growing together. 
Next year we are going to extend our stay by one day and come back on Sunday. This time we had to skip the last session in order to make it though the snow storm and be able to return in a timely manner.Here are some pictures from the conference. The rest are on my Facebook page. Thanks to Northwestern College freshman Sarah Hanson
for taking the photos and for serving as a youth sponsor on this trip! I've known Sarah for a very long time (Rosalie's known her since birth - Sarah's, not Rosalie's!) Sarah was in our youth group in Ripon and has attended several events with our youth group since we've been in Pine City. It was great to serve alongside her as a youth sponsor! She's a great role model and a wonderful example for our students.
