Start of Day Three

It's hard to believe that it's already Wednesday - camp is almost 1/2 over.  We have had a great time so far, more pictures to come this afternoon and hopefully more stories to share with you back home.  Our students are currently sitting in the morning session, where they have a time of worship and teaching.  After that, the adults break out for some student ministry training while The Skit Guys bring a some of their incredible humor to the stage.  We'll eat lunch around noon, take a group picture, then one of our guys teams will continue to play basketball in the second round today.  We'll have lots of free time this afternoon to hang out here on the beach, then we'll shower, eat, and get ready for the evening worship time.  Our hope is that throughout the day, our students will clearly see the Savior!!!

Let me take a few to share about last night.  A few weeks ago, we took four weeks during FUEL to study this idea: Your DIRECTION, not your INTENTIONS, will lead you to a DESTINATION.  This is from a book by Andy Stanley called "The Principle of the Path" - pick it up, it's a good read and great wisdom!  We have been drilling that idea into our students...that they have all of these high and lofty intentions about where they want to be relationally, spiritually, financially, etc in the years to come, but the path they are on now will ultimately decide that destination.  Since I'm writing this to adults, think back about some of the roads that you have chosen over time and how many of those roads started with GOOD INTENTIONS, but ultimately it was the WRONG road to begin with.  This principle challenges us to think about the choices we make daily that lead us down either the road that leads to destruction or the path that leads to righteousness.  I know that sounds a little super spiritual, but it's really true.  

As our students heard that last night, they were challenged in the area of relationships and purity.  They can tell it you better than I can, but it came down to the thought that there are many times in our relationships where we make choices that lead us down the wrong path...Jared (the guys who was speaking) challenged the student to consider their purity and how that can lead them down the right path or the wrong path...

It was a great night and our students had much to say in our church group time afterwards.  God is going some great things, continue to pray for them, and for ultimate obedience to the will of the Father!!!

More later...

J