Eagle Brook Church Blog

Rev Students Get Messy

On Aug. 25, our Revolution senior high ministry put on the biggest, muddiest event of the summer—the 1st Annual Mess Fest.

Revolution completely took over the Cock-a-Doodle Zoo in Scandia, Minn., turning an unassuming dirt field into an enormous mud pit using 19,000 gallons of water, courtesy of the Scandia Fire Department.

Students arrived on school buses clean and excited, but then spent more than 90 minutes getting covered from head-to-foot in glorious mud.

They played mud-based mixers, ran four-team relay races, and finished off with two-team mud sports like mud-football. A few impromptu mud-slip-and-slide contests even emerged over the course of the night.

After the mess, students got sprayed down with hoses and changed into fresher clothes before enjoying tours of the exotic animals at the Cock-a-Doodle Zoo and a bonfire cookout, complete with cocoa and s’mores.

As the evening closed, all of the students huddled around the fire to catch a vision for the upcoming year of Revolution, meet some new senior high staff, and be reminded of God’s love for them and the other students they’ll interact with as they head back to school in a few short weeks.

The overwhelming sentiment, as the students loaded back onto the buses to head home, was that the 2nd Annual Revolution Mess Fest couldn’t come soon enough.

More photos can be found on Flickr or on Revolution’s group page on Facebook.

(Thank you to Brian Wheeler for the photos in this blog post.)