Day 26. Of mega churches and training days, of friends and frisbee

Today was a good day, we woke up and broke camp before church and then attended the same church which we'll call home for the next few week or so. It is always an interesting experience attending this church because it is very different than what I'm used to and I don't particularly resonate with the format that they use for their worship. Don't get me wrong they are very passionate about their ministry, but I've really fallen in love with my tiny church and I don't really like the feeling that if I wasn't there no one would notice.

That having been said I also was blown away by the sermon this morning. I appreciated it immensely the openness with which it was delivered and the pastor was incredibly vulnerable with the struggles that he has come through personally and professionally.

After church we went to the mall for food court fun times, and to get a wee dose o' starbucks before training began. I had taco johns... it made me miss tuesdays at home.

We came back 'home' and set up camp (although to be fair I have been blowing up my air mattress in between paragraphs) and did our typical meetings and learning the ins and outs of this week of camp. It was quite enjoyable (or as much as those things can be).

The solid highlight of the day was the semi-impromptu games of frisbee that we played all the way until our frisbee was broken in a moment of frustration (not by me but it easily could have been). It was good times and even though I'm still wiped out it is a great tired and I'm quite happy that we were able to have that time to frolic.


Since I havn't asked for specific prayer requests in a while here are a few.

-One of our guys was recently diagnosed with strep. Pray for his health and that it ends with him, instead of him just being patient zero.
-Pray for our team of directors this week, they're doing a great job but it's a special sort of stressful to run a camp like this for a week.
-Pray for me, It has been a great season so far but especially at the midpoint like this I need to remind myself to keep my head in the game, pray that I can do that without distractions or efforts that might be counter-productive to the call we've been given.
-Pray for a spirit of peace and restfulness. We're getting as much sleep as we can, and working as smartly as we can... but we're running on borrowed steam at this point. Pray that we can keep our engines roaring to keep up with the wee kiddos this week.