On Camp

Yesterday I got back from this summer's NNED camp. Our church brought a handful of teenagers and me and josh were on rec staff, which means that josh got to tell people how to play games and gave teams points while I spent every day with a video camera and every night editing footage. I've never not been a camper at a camp before. The perspective is pretty good.

My favorite part of the whole trip was watching the pieces come together. Here you have 30 or so individual staff members, all from different churches, half of which were college kids from Valley Forge on the band, and a guest speaker who you've never met before, and in the time between dinner on sunday night to lunch time monday afternoon, you have to all get on the same page and make a weeklong summer camp that actually works.
And it actually works.
Because even though you've never met half of those people before, let alone collaborated with them on anything, you are all already on the same page. Everyone was there for the same purpose, to see lives transformed.
Its encouraging to me that individuals from different backgrounds can have enough in common to get that done.