PIU Days 2–Team Sky

The Friday evening program featured Team Sky. The presentation was a unified three part skit with a “before and after” motif that compared the students’ attitudes about God and life sandwiched around a TV interview with various “experts” that discussed the meaning of Psalm 36. The point was that God’s love, righteousness and justice are the superior way to live and that the Psalm calls us to make a decision about that. We can choose the path of wickedness or God’s righteous path. It is up to each one of us.

The performers had practiced and were ready to go

The curtain opened as Baby Gwen led the team in

Scene 1 opened in the “men’s” and “women’s” Dorms

Davey introduced the ladies’ worship dance

Mayson performed an original poem, Addie sang her original song and Steven impersonated Mike Owen

We had some trios

And a quartet

Act 2 featured an interview with the author of Psalm 36, Mr. Wickedy Wicked, King David

… And Prof Mike Owen. Then there was a group song

Act 3 featured all the students reflecting on the meaning and application of the Psalm in their dorms

After the program we headed out to the pavilion for snacks

The real and fake Mike Owen pose together. Can you tell who is the real philosopher?

PIU Days 2–Field Day

The 2nd day of PIU Days is, traditionally “field day.” So we headed over to the Bayview Church field (thank you to our friends at Bayview who allowed us to use the field and even mowed it for us the day before) for a day of races, games and fun in the sun. The teams competed hard, enjoyed Jamaican Grill for lunch, played some Wacky games along with the traditional races and came back to PIU a little sunburned, tired and dehydrated. But everyone had a good time. There were also afternoon basketball and volleyball games before the evening program.

Several of the guys got there early to set up the canopy

There was a lot of wind but eventually we got it set up and were ready to go

The first event was the eating relay race. I think the bag of Fritos was the hardest to swallow

I enjoyed the expressions on the students’ faces as they tried to get that food down quickly

Even Billy Edwin had some trouble with the chocolate muffin. But, as you can see, only the wrappers remained in the end.

The races featured some serious competition

Sarah Brubaker outran all of her students

The closest race of the day

The audience enjoyed the spirited competition

After the races it was lunch time and an opportunity for the campus kids to play on the field

Teams took a few moments to relax and pose for pictures

And pose for a few more pictures

After lunch the games resumed with the Tug O’ War

The kids’ tug o war featured some very intense competition and a high cuteness ratio

And you need an egg toss

Mayson and Scott did a good job coordinating the event

Later in the afternoon we returned to campus for a volleyball game: Mountains vs. Tehom

Followed by the Tehom vs. Mountains basketball game