Reaching out…

End of a great week. We got home two days ago, after a week of going full speed with a bunch of High Schoolers we needed a couple of days to re-settle with our family. Young Life ALWAYS puts on a great camp. It is really solid from the speaking to the entertainment. Everything that [...]

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Yesterday we talked about SIN. It isn’t a fun topic, nor is it a topic that we should just skip over lightly. It is going to to create tension in camp. Yesterday in the leaders meeting the group was talking about the pranks that are happening, which are in response to students confused about how [...]

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We just finished Day 3 of Wasington Family Ranch, I haven’t written yet, because there just hasn’t been a moment to sit down and string together enough thoughts to do it.  The camp is the largest that Washington Family Ranch has ever experienced with 723 campers, we have 40 campers and that is the highest [...]

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We have been back from Washington Family Ranch for the better part of a week and the ministry continues. The last day of camp was incredible. We had this incredible shared experience new friends, some from the Basque Country… and we were all heading home. A few snags along the way but for the most [...]

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Day 6 ~ Washington Family Ranch This year there is a new program called Real Life which replace Lifesigns, which replaced Broken Heart. It is an attempt on Young Life’s part to be fresh and relevant. I was blown away by it, and to be honest It wasn’t the entire program, it was just the [...]

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In Young Life, we ask students to go beyond their comfort zone. We provide activities for them that will stretch them. We select activities that will move students to a state of “trying new things.” That methodology is all well and good until the student looks around and realizes that he/she is the only one [...]

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We are smack dab in the middle of Sin… well, as a camp we are. We are struggling to understand what sin is. Steve presented Sin yesterday morning at about 11, giving our campers 36 hours to process things. The concept of sin is a hard concept for a lot of kids. They are pretty [...]

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 Leader Centric camping can be so encouraging.  Young Life employs the leader-centric model and that is where leaders that know the kids come from their hometown spend a week together and then go home with the kids and go onto a lifetime of relationships. One of the girls that we took to camp while we [...]

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Today was our first full day at Washington Family Ranch, and after a long day of traveling and a late first night, I think everyone was ready for sleep. The mornings at camp are usually pretty special here. Adults this is our time to center, to take some time with our creator. No one in [...]

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I woke up at 5:30 and 5 minutes later my phone started ringing with the first problem of the day. It was ringing while I was in taking a shower. I thought to myself, Here we go. Luckily the concern was a small one and I was able to field the call before there was [...]

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