Summer has started

Wow! The summer is flying by. The whirlwind of a schedule leading up to the start of summer camp has lead me to be extremely busy moving from one project to the next getting camp prepped for a fresh beginning. The last big weekend camp before the summer started was discipleship camp which was over Memorial weekend. We had probably the biggest camp we will have the entire summer 350 kids! With a total of 550 people on the property. It was insane. The first club had so much energy and even without the kids jumping the club room still felt like it was shaking.

The speaker that weekend allowed God to do some incredible things through her. She really challenged those high schoolers to take their relationships with Christ further. It was awesome to watch. Some of the quotes from that weekend were:

• He died thinking of us, in hopes that we would live thinking about Him
• Royalty is made by blood... we are made royalty because of the blood of Jesus.
• Jesus doesn't deny us anything, but we deny Him all the time.

Since the discipleship weekend, full fledged camp has started!! Our summer staff and work crew came into camp and all of sudden our camp of 16 property staff/interns turned into a solid 100 people constantly in camp. 

With the new sound tech job I was still in the dark when it came to how much work and prep it was going to take to cater to the program team, speaker, musician and just about anyone who needs sound. This first week is almost over and I am seeing how the first week, especially the first 4 days of every session will consist of a lot of work and prep in order to make the rest of the session run smoothly. So far this session I have really established a great relationship with the program team and so far most things have gone pretty well. 

The first club was kind of a nightmare. Leading up to club there were about 3 straight little events that involved sound of some capacity which lead to the sound techs not being fully ready for our first club. The program team decided that they were ready and so we started club early. Once we started we realized we didn't have the kid's names for the games in the presenter program. Also during the beginning of club our video tech came in with the video that I needed to somehow present during club that day. This all combined to make confusion with the order of club. We ended up giving the names to the program guys just to read which worked but wasn't ideal. Then to top everything off... A mic didn't work for one of the program guys which was especially needed since the program character was wearing a box on his head. Overall it was super stressful but we learned a lot as a sound tech duo and since then club and everything has been pretty flawless. 

As a guest services team we are going through the book "Prodigal God" by Timothy Keller which is about the Lost Son story in the Gospel of Luke. It takes an in-depth look into the parable showing how the real title of the parable could possibly called the parable of the Two Lost Sons. We just started it but it is definitely something I will be looking forward to. In our first meeting/discussion about the book we talked about which son we identify with more. To me it felt like I have been the second son more often then the first. 

One instance which God was definitely working in was when I was walking to the meeting for the book discussion. As I was walking there I saw a leader praying with his fellow cabin leader. Now this was God showing me how I act like the older son. Throughout this week I saw this leader and judged on if he was truly a good influence on his guys. When I saw him and coleader praying before they went into their cabin time I saw that they in it for real. They were praying for the Holy Spirit to be with them so they could answer the questions and love on their guys the best they could. It was  humbling moment for me. Very powerful.