This past week I took 17 students and 3 adults to Student Life Camp. We stayed at Stephen F. Austin in Nacogdoches, TX. This was a little surreal because having lived in Lufkin for a while it was kind of like going back home. Especially when we found out that our Mission Assignment for the week was in Lufkin. We helped out the Boys and Girls club there in Lufkin.
Quick Recap!
Monday: Drove down, registered, celebrated, and crashed
Tuesday: Celebrated, ended up making goodie bags for residents of Pine Crest nursing home (that place is huge!). Thanks Todd for letting us use your church!
Wednesday: Celebrated, cleaned the messiest room in the world out for the Boy’s and Girl’s Club, sorted cans, and made welcome signs, ate at Outback with Shelly.
Thursday: Celebrated, played with the boys and girls at he B&G Club. Cleaned out another room for them.
Friday: Celebrated, drove back among lots of traffic, unpacked, crashed hard!
Saturday: preparing sermon for tomorrow!
What Worked?
- Two of my students got saved!
- Neil McClendon (he brought the Word as usual)
- The students were challenged to grow as ministry
- I was able to connect with them in a way I had not before
- Food was good
- Mission projects were amazing
- The Swift (worship band) were classy and not show stealers
- Drama was fun
- My adult leaders made the camp!
- Though I was running around ragged, I was able to get away from the students and let them grow without me
What Didn’t?
- Zero free time (although I was able to skip a meeting a take a nap once!
- Staying in a girl’s dorm with the bathroom at the other end of the hall (I was seriously missing a urinal by the end of the week).
- The celebration times were great but almost too much going on (too much of a production)
- Each and every aspect of registration and check in (both prior and during camp)
- The camp seems a little too Youth Ministry for me (I know that does not make sense to most of you so I’ll explain what I mean over some coffee sometime)
- The campus was repairing E College Street so to go 50 yards by van you had to drive 4 miles.
- The Mass evacuation of Kerr hall due to burning popcorn at 12:00 am
Sidenote: Patrick Sanders the Organizer at the Boys & Girls Club just kept going on and on about how much he loved what we were doing. Although we were at a Student Life Camp we were simply representing FBC Sanger while there. No Student Life personnel were with us. He kept telling me how he wished there were students in Lufkin who would do stuff like this. Now being from Lufkin I know that there are. So to all of you there in L-Town know that people close to you are hurting to see Christ's love. That is one thing I wanted my students to capture… that they do not have to go all the way to East Texas to serve… they can do it here in Sanger! I think they caught that too.
Robert
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