It was a sad day on July 21 when we all climbed aboard our buses and prepared for the six-hour trip back to Michigan. Convention 2023 (July 17–21) had come to an end, and for me, it was my second convention and my last one. I was happy to discover that there was a lot […]
Some would say that it is insanity to spend a total of thirty-five hours riding in a bus to spend five days in the sweltering heat of North Carolina. If you are one of those people, then you must never have gone to an RYS convention, because, as I’m sure the 650 people who attended […]
Since 1998, Reformed Youth Service (RYS) has had two Logos conferences each year, one in the summer and one in the winter. To those who attend or help make it happen it is known as Logos, although it is pronounced “logoes.” In Greek the word logos means the Word. Ed DeGraaf, the director of RYS, […]
Reformed young people may sometimes feel as though they are a minority in the world. However, after attending the Reformed Youth Services Convention in Newberg, Oregon, perhaps they felt like Elijah when he discovered that there were seven thousand that were still like him (1 Kings 19). Just fewer than seven hundred Reformed people gathered […]
If you have heard anything about the recent Reformed Youth Services convention at Dordt College, you will not be surprised when I say that I had a fantastic time being a part of it. The RYS convention is not something to attend lightly. I personally had to endure a fourteen-hour bus ride from my home […]
The typical summertime calm of Dordt College’s campus was shattered on July 25 as 813 teens and sponsors flooded the beautiful grounds and overtook the dorms. Dordt College in Sioux Center, Iowa, was the host site for the 2011 Reformed Youth Services Convention, which took place from July 25 to July 29. After a year […]
The heat and humidity of Georgia did not detract from the enthusiasm and excitement of 812 teens and sponsors who converged at Covenant College on picturesque Lookout Mountain. This was the site of the 2012 Reformed Youth Services Convention, which took place from July 22 to July 27. It was another amazing convention, organized for […]
In the days leading up to the twelfth annual Reformed Youth Services National Convention (held July 23–27, 2012), over eight hundred conventioneers boarded airplanes, buses, and vans to begin their journey to Covenant College on Lookout Mountain, Georgia. Overcrowded vans, long flights, and 36-hour bus rides did nothing to stem the anticipation that filled every […]
My dear Ryskill, I have received your report on your student, and I am gravely displeased with your work! You did not prevent your student from making it to the RYS Convention this summer, and now there is a chance he will regress in many of the areas you have been focusing on with him! […]