I'm heading out tomorrow morning to Camp Velocity. This is my 10th year or so of doing camp with our church's youth group, all with the same churches - with some additions over the years. Noel is the High School speaker and the junior high speaker is Raitz's boss at Willow Creek, Scott Rubin, their Junior High Youth Pastor.
For the fifth year (i think) we're at Kenyon College in Gambier, OH (the middle of nowhere). The good news is that we're staying in air conditioned dorms this year. The bad news is that they're on the other side of campus from everything else we're doing. We've got about 400+ kids going overall from a bunch of different churches around Michigan and Ohio. We're from all sorts of denominations and none of us believes the exact same thing, but we all love kids and believe that Jesus loves them too, so we work to teach the kids to know and follow Jesus. We've got 30+ kids going from Crossroads, with a great group of leaders, many of who've grown up through our youth group from junior high to high school and now help as leaders as they're in college.
I look forward to this week every year. It's an amazing, life changing, draining week. I'm going into it this year already kind of worn down with a couple of crazy weeks leading up to this one. Hanging with this group of youth pastors, hearing the speakers and the worship is a great way for me to reconnect with God. Having the great conversations with kids about their life and faith that happen so often in these kind of settings where you're together 24x7 also fill me up.
If you have a sec, please pray for me, the other leaders and the kids we're taking this week.
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