It’s about 3:30pm on Wednesday at Centrifuge (at Ridgecrest). It’s been a long but wonderful day since my last blog. So far everything is going pretty well. I was really tired earlier today and just thought it was because I was getting old. Getting up Rec. Hill at 32 is harder that getting up Rec. Hill at 27. But then I realized that I hadn’t had any caffeine in over two days. It’s the drug of choice for this Baptist minister. I felt like an addict looking for a fix as I tracked down the closest soda machine this morning. Finally, at lunch I had a Diet Pepsi (though Diet Coke is much better) and everything with the world was right again.

This week’s lessons are excellent. Today we studied the parables of the mustard seed, the yeast, the priceless treasure, and the pearl from Matthew 13. The Kingdom of God is such an amazing thing. And how great is it that God allows us to join Him in what he’s doing. Tonight will be another great evening of worship – so be in prayer for the students that their hearts would be open to God’s Word.

I’ll blog again soon and hopefully attach a few pictures next time.

Well, we’re here and doing great.  This is a much larger week that I expected.  For the past eight camps that I’ve attended – the largest group of campers I’ve seen is about 700.  This year, there are over 1700 teenagers and adult leaders here at Centrifuge.  In addition to that, there are over 500 children on campus for CentriKID (including our own mside kids).  Wow…that’s a lot of students…and a lot of hormones.

The first night was good and the message from the camp pastor was right on target. All of our students are doing well and learning the camp schedule.  Pray for us.  I’ll try to write more later…for now it’s off toe the Opening service for the morning.