Now that I have finished my time at the hospital I am taking a needed family vacation. We're up at Youthfront Camp South this week near Kansas City where I am teaching a group of High School Students. What I love about YouthFront is that their learning model involves some amazing ways of connecting students beyond the traditional "camp speaker" type set up. So I share in the morning and then they have some reflection time to connect with it followed that night with a concrete experience focused on the same topic and then another great response time. The goal as I see it is to reach a diverse group of students in very different ways all aiming at giving them more than just the "right answers".
There are some very specific "rhythms" to how this camp runs too with morning prayer and midday prayer times. Today before lunch at 12pm I walked into the chapel to see 200 students laying around on the floor engaged in an amazing time of corporate prayer and worship.
On another note I'm hanging with my friend Mike King and tonight met with Chris Folmsbee of Barefoot Ministries. Mike and Chris are involved in a ton of things but one close to my heart is the new Youth Ministry Magazine called "Immerse: A journal of Faith, Life and Youth Ministry" which I am on the advisory board for and do some writing in.
This is the Rood families first time in the Midwest and so far it's been real nice. We're hoping to actually get to drive into Kansas City at some point this week and sample some of its barbecue which I hear they think rivals Texas pretty well.
Thanks for all of you who have been praying for me during my time as a chaplain this spring. It was an amazing experience that really changed me and I know that I am a better pastor and person because of it. I'm still looking forward to seeing what God will do with it all.
