Just thought I´d share a fun experience from the Young Retreat I went to a while ago. We left Friday night at 8:30 PM, 11 people in a very small van. We got to this little town in the middle of nowhere around 4:30 AM, where I slept in the hallway of someone's home until 7:30 AM. Played a lot of soccer in the afternoon. That night, we were exhausted, and the service didn't start until 8 PM.

During the first song (that dreadfully annoying, "The Happy Song" in Spanish), a cop car pulled into the school where the retreat was being held, with lights flashing. 2 guys in camo and rifles jumped out, as well as a guy in police clothes with a hand gun. Suddenly there were flash fireworks going off like 10 feet from me, and the cops are up on stage with their guns pointed at the head of the bass player. They hauled him off, and someone came up to say... we don´t know what just happened, but we´ll keep you informed. The bassist was back by the second song, and the moral came out later- "Jesus is coming, like a thief in the night." As I removed my jaw from the floor, the speaker continued, "And wouldn't it just be great if Jesus came back while we were in a church service?"

So they proceeded to give Jesus a nice block of time in which to return. Singing (I'm sure "The Happy Song" was repeated several times) and skits and "sword drills" continued until 10:20, when the preacher was invited forward. Finally, around midnight the leaders decided no one had the energy to make it through an all night vigil as planned.