the ZONE

We made it! Camp turned out to be incredible. We were hoping to have 150 people attend, and all in all we ended up having just over 200! In addition, we had two new youth pastors come to visit for the day so that they could get an idea of what it would be like for them to join in with us next year. What a blessing! I have to admit that it was a little scary to lead a whole camp together, but it is exciting to follow where God seems to be leading us and have things play out so smoothly. Praise the Lord!

Highlights:

(1) pummeling a middle schooler dressed in a Dumbledoor-esque robe in a pillow fight in the parking lot at 1:00am with his own pillow,

(2) sending one of my favorite prof.'s daughter soaring 10ft into the air off of the Blob on the lake,

(3) tossing a puppet under a high powered lawnmower,

(4) riding the "Camp Director" golf cart obscenely short distances instead of walking,

(5) leading Minute to Win it competitions that almost invariably failed to work,

(6) the ability to enable the youth pastors to spend more time being with their students rather then worrying about the next event,

(7) watching God answer prayers all week, from the weather to group unity to students coming to know Christ, and

(8) doing it all while working side by side with Linds. It was a great week.

The biggest challenge of the week was not having our own youth group. It was really hard. It made me really miss all my kids from our past churches. If any of you happen to breeze through this blog, I miss you a lot and continue to pray for you.

- Drew