Long Overdue Pics

So, as some of you know, my school did a thing last May as part of our Suffering Church class that was designed as a simulation of the persecuted church. It only lasted 36 hours, but it was incredibly intense, and it meant enough to people that my team has already talked about it several times since we've been here.

-- Much to the confusion of our site supervisors.

They will start us singing a song, and one of us will comment with something along the lines of, "Do you remember when we sang this in prison?" or, "This song always makes me think of being in jail." Needless to say, they were a little confused the first couple times, "Uh, guys, is there something we should know?" Lol.

Anyhow, I finally got a hold of some pictures of the event, so now you get to see them too.

Prison. Cell number 108.The middle of one of our "sleep - no sleep" cycles on the second night in the prison, where they would wake you up repeatedly in the middle of the night just after your body finally starts to fall back asleep. As you can tell by the looks on our faces, we were all mucho alert by this point -- or not.Elizabeth in prison.The "prison warden" doling out punishment.

Prison cells 104 and 105.In prison doing something. I think this might have been when they woke us up at 3:00 in the morning to go out to the tennis courts for push ups and sit ups, trying the bait the people in the peace camp to try and free us even though we had made a pledge not to run away even if we were rescued.Noses against the wall in prison. This was a favorite way to pass the time, almost as popular as making us lay on our backs and stare at the ceiling in the silence without falling asleep or closing our eyes. (Katelyn and Emily)

The "general." If we wanted out, all we had to do was pledge allegiance to him and to his "glorious republic, which was all that was, and is, and ever will be," denying the "cult" that we were part of. Noel and one of the interns trying to get some sleep in the peace camp.

Will trying to get some sleep in the peace camp on one of the only non pine needle covered surfaces.

Because it was a simulation, most of what was going on had to be fueled by our imaginations, so pictures don't really do justice to what the event was like. They might give you a little bit of an idea though, and they're fun for me to look back and see what parts of the event might have looked like from the outside, so, enjoy.

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