I keep hearing that many in our group just couldn't picture what winter camp would look like...so, I thought I'd give you a picture (or a few!) of our time away last weekend. We headed up to Camp Oakhurst Christian Conference Center (about 1/2 hour south of Yosemite) and were challenged to "Make it Count"--to make the most of the time God has given in our college days.We got up there Friday night and found snow on the ground and snow in the air as we headed to the Pizza Factory for dinner and hang time together as a group. We got into topics like, Why is pizza greasy anyway? Which is better with pizza--Rootbeer or Dr. Pepper? (any votes?) How do you drive in the snow (thanks Tim for your insights from growing up in rural Washington!) Is "Q" a reliable and legitimate document source theory for the creation of the New Testament? How does the Gospel of Thomas relate to
the four canonical gospels? Can we reasonably draw the conclusion that Jesus was Messiah from Mark's Gospel? As you can see, discussion from the mundane to the profound!Next day we headed off to Yosemite for an adventure together, but were thwarted by the need for chains--even on Josh's burly four wheel drive work truck. So we "settled" for some time in the snow at Tenaya Lodge insitead. "Way better than Yosemite" was the consensus. How often do you get to take out a 250 foot piece of plastic and run eight
people down the side of a hill where everyone (from 2 to 55 years old) becomes a little a little kid laughing and trying to go just a little faster? Snow ball fights and races were incredible (so was the Seattle's Best coffee afterwards!).
When the Group from EV Free, Fresno joined us we played some great icebreakers together (they have a girl who's majoring in this stuff!) and had some fantastic worship and tiem in God's Word. Nic Pope challenged us to make college life count by living a life of faith (He took us all the way back to Creation and God's call on Abraham!), hope (he shared powerful personal testimony of losing his dad as a little boy) and love. We had a great time together.
4 comments:
how many people ended up going to camp?
glad you all had a great time!
Man, wish I could have gone. It sounds like the group really had a lot of fun together. I think those pictures speak for themselves.
Sounds like at least one of the people who went is taking Dr. Lloyd-Moffet's Christianity class. I'd know those test questions anywhere. Did you guys discuss the 6 issues with using the gospels as historical sources and the 6 events in Jewish history that had a profound impact on the Israel of Jesus' day?
Glad everyone had a great time.
I would like to ask a question. I know someone in the college group who would love to go out witnessing and hand out tracts at the Thurs. night farmer's market; however, they are a little shy to bring up the idea. Steve, would you consider putting this idea out to the college group and maybe offer some training so people could pair up, hand out tracts and talk to people in small groups? College is such a great time to learn to be bold for the gospel. I am not sure if you get back to this blog much, but I hope you read this.
Thanks for the question! Yes, our Outreach Team takes students out to Farmer's Market the 1st Thursday of each month. I believe they've gone three times this quarter. I have been leading a time of evangelism training about every other week or so this last quarter as well. We meet at 1:30pm on Sunday afternoons to give people a chance to grab lunch after church and then get back together. We're not meeting again until Spring Quarter, but I'd love to see some more students jump in. The details are announced and printed in our "College Notes" each Sunday morning, so keep an eye out for the our next training in April. Hope that helps!
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