Today marks the first full day here at camp Conrad for our junior high student ministry. I am excited about many opportunities that lie before us. We have a great chance to be with our students for the next several days and spend quality time with them and laugh, play games, enjoy life and simply talk with these guys. I am excited to watch our leaders step up to bat and love on out students. Nothing excites me more than when a leader takes a serious interest in the life of one of our students. I can proudly say that at have the kind of leaders that are doing this even as we speak. That thrills me! See in my humble opinion, youth ministry is not about the youth pastor. Those guys(myself included) will come and go, we will one day be a distant memory. I think that real youth ministry, good ministry is done by the volunteer leaders who invest oodles of time in their lives. It IS about the late night talks you have with them, it IS about the card games you played with them, it IS about the time you lovingly wrestled with that 7th grade guy. Ministry is all of those moments combined. I am so honored to be leading a team that views all of this as important. This is what is going on here at camp. We are right now in the process of loving students and living out Gods love for them. I’m pumped for these next few days.
Please pray for us that we would be safe, that God would change lives this week, and that our group would grow together to be the body that God has called us to be.
It’s 12. Time to get these lights out!
~Peter
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I trust that you all are having a nice time at Conrad despite the quality of the food. See you guys soon.
i like the part about the wrestling…ED. haha.