The past week @ Malibu Club proved to be an adventurous
opportunity for me to join in on, in the best possible way...
Malibu is a remote island (no cell service/internet/media/etc), owned by YoungLife up in B.C.,
Canada (see trip itinerary in previous post), located at the mouth of the
Princess Louisa Inlet.
It was an honor to be a part of the first ever, Mars Hill
church-wide Students Summer Camp. To
serve alongside some of our amazing leaders (you know who you are) was a privilege. YoungLife and our
program team definitely hooked it up.
There was wakeboarding, zip-lining, a foam party, the blob, spontaneous
late night pool party (jump in with all your clothes), caribe tubing, kayaking,
beach volleyball, dragon canoeing, an obstacle course, a high ropes course, the
rock scramble hike …these were all the things we did throughout the week.
Our speaker was Tim Gaydos, the Mars Hill Downtown lead
pastor (also the Mars Hill band Citizens guided worship). He spoke on: The Story of God, Identity & Worship, the
Fall of Man, Redemption, and Restoration.
It was such a perfect, sequential platform for processing with our
students.
Kevin, who is the Rainier Valley Students Lead, and I shared
a cabin with five high school guys (best cabin). Every night we all had time to discuss the message as a
cabin, and it was such a blessing for Kevin and I to be a part of our guys’
lives through that time and all the activities. They really took to us (two 20something white dudes they’d
never met before) and opened up in ways that we can only thank Jesus for.
Personally, I had a surreal moment (yes, in addition to my
7am wakeboarding sessions) with God.
It was after the Redemption message on Sunday night… grey skies with
light rain, Citizens' instruments gently echoing throughout camp, with everyone
outside in a personal space to be in a contemplative, reflective, and
prayerful state. I’ve only
experienced this a handful of times throughout my life, and describe it as a
moment of truly gripping an Eternal Perspective.
It was simply God and I, everything (read: EVERYTHING) else was stripped
away. Purely amazing.
Please pray that Kevin and I would begin to do life and walk alongside the guys from our cabin. Pray that this experience, for our
students, would not be an experience that quickly fades into a memory, but that
it would be the beginning of a legacy…
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| Paul, js, Joelvon, Kevin, Roberto, Davonte, Cliff |
