Youth Camp

Church on Sunday was a nice one.  Pastor Zac taught about prayer.  This week is their annual week of prayer.  They put on hold all their evening programs and instead meet for worship and prayer.  They also encourage fasting this week.  Zac encouraged everyone to write down their prayers… and not hold back.  “Dream big” he said and let the Lord know the desires of our hearts.  Sometimes we focus on what we don’t have and the prayers we think have been unanswered instead of remembering what He has done.

In the evening, George continued in James and gave an intro into the next topic: taming of the tongue.  Next week they will look at the power of the tongue and what that means to us as Christians.  It’s a big, but important topic.  Unfortunately, I wasn’t feeling well so we left early.  I was planning on teaching about pride, but will save that for next week.  I encouraged the ladies to not go home early, but to stay and work on their prayer lists.  I know how hard it is to do stuff like that when you get home and your attention is demanded elsewhere.

One really good thing that happened on Sunday was the planning of our youth camp.  George and I sat down with Zac and began to crunch out the details.  We are planning to start small, which means we’ll be inviting the youths from local churches.  We hope to have around 50 kids (high school and college age) come for the weekend.  We’ll be teaching about lessons we can learn from the life of David – what to do and what NOT to do.  My topic will be purity, something I am passionate about.  We got excited during the planning meeting and can’t wait for this event.  We have to meet again and finish up the details.  That will probably happen in the next week.  There is a lot to do, but we know the Lord will guide us and provide all we need.