Why No Winter Retreat

Hey REALife Parents.
I've had a few questions recently that has made me want to put out an explanation for all of you. The past two years I've had a Winter Retreat for REALife students where we've gone up to Boone and had a weekend of snowboarding, skiing, and fellowship. They have been great trips, but this year we will not be doing this trip for a few reasons. This trip is expensive, totaling in the mid $200's for one weekend because of lodging, transportation, lift tickets, etc. With the economy the way it is I want cancel this trip and encourage students to start saving for our summer camp, which is five days long for around the same cost. Second, because of the cost we rarely get the turnout that we like, so if we can have more than double the amount of students at our free REALife service on Sunday nights I would pick that over the retreat any day. I hope this explains things for you. Please let me know if you have any further questions.

FYI - S'CAMP (Summer Camp) is June 21-25. And it's gonna be awesome.