I feel compelled to write something about my experience this past weekend. It started with an overnight trip to Joshua Tree National Park. Spent a great evening sitting in front of the campfire reading and watching videos on my ipod (I know not very campy.) My good friend Jon showed up around 10pm and we sat and talked for a couple of hours. Slept in the cars that night because we were expecting rain. I like to sleep in my Suburban. It did rain at about 3:30am. The next day after Denny’s (again not very campy) we headed back into the park to climb. After a long hike we ended up at the bottom of a great 3 bolt 5.8 lead climb. Bottom was a little rough but after clipping the first bolt it wasn’t so scary. It ended up being a lot of fun.
The rest of the weekend I was at a mens retreat in Palm Springs. Great time with my church. We really went after a wide age range in all the marketing. Most of my good friends were there. Perfect retreat and not at all over programmed. We managed to go see a movie and spend a lot of time hanging out. Thanks to Brian, Matt, Jon, Carnell, Bobby, Seth and Dave for being there.
One other great thing. Instead of being a teaching pastor at this retreat I offered to be in charge of media. A great opportunity to try/do something new. it was nice to be in this support role helping those teaching push their points with visual and audio media. I even ran powerpoint for the worship band. There is just something about being in the background sometime that is refreshing.
Missed my family though. I’m glad to be home.
