Summer in the Son

So, my family and I were on vacation for two weeks. We came home for a full 24-hours, before I left for the next six days to go the Summer in the Son, a church camp for Sr. High students at Kentucky Christian University. It has been one of the highlights of my summers for the last six years. We have been blessed with some awesome teenagers at our church, and I love to spend that time getting to know them in a much different way that seeing them for an hour or two each week. This year was a much different week of camp, though. We had a smaller group than usual, only 17 of us. We also just hired a new youth minister, and this week of camp was his first week to begin ministry at our church. We were all a bit nervous and anxious as we began to get to know each other, and see if we were going to make a good fit. As always, God proved His faithfulness, and provided us an amazing week of camp beyond my expectations. For the first time in many months, I can say that I am looking forward to the future that God has planned for our church and youth ministry.

I just had to include this picture of our senior ministry doing a dance to the game/song "Little Sally Walker." As he "bust a move" the other five people in the picture are laughing hysterically! That just typifies the theme of our week, laughter and fellowship!