Camp Update

July 26, 2010 at 10:47 pm (Uncategorized)

We are having a great time here at Riverview.  In so many ways it is different.  We are packed in with close to 400 people including staff and leaders from not only our church, but also churches from all over the northwest.  We have been eating really great food and lots of it!  We have had challenges from the Bible about creation and the story of God which is a good thing in a day and age where so many people leave God out of their beliefs about origins.  I’ve watched kids and leaders wrestle with questions about faith and God and Jesus.  I’ve also seen students who need to be challenged, but they are resisting.  I love watching our leaders totally engage with their kids and guide them in activities and life.  There is really nothing like a week of camp to escape from the trappings of our everyday life and find that the God of the unseen is deeply engaged with pursuing these special kids.  I will never tire of the opportunities that God brings every year.  We may be in a different place on a map, but our God is so much bigger than the location we are in.  He is relentlessly hunting down the spiritually lost and apathetic and challenging the convinced to step out in leadership and great faith.  Pray for us as leaders that we will show them a life lived by faith is the ONLY way to live.

Thanks for letting your kids be with us this week!

Pastor Mark