From Winter Camp

I'm posting this from my room at the Presbyterian Youth 2009 Winter Camp. It finishes up tomorrow, but has been great so far. (I'm on the Junior Camp, which is for Years 7-10)

My role on camp is to be a Pastoral Carer. It's a very cool system: they recruit a bunch of people like me to come and hang out with the other leaders on camp to chat with them about life and ministry. I'm allocated 5 blokes, and they're my focus; I'm their go-to man for all sorts of things.

Four other cool things about this camp...

• Well-Pitched Material: Sermons, Bible Studies, even just the little things... cute little video bits here and there, thoughtful ways to involve the young'ns in stuff.
  
• The Venue: it's at The Tops Conference Centre, which, at just about every point, is just a bit nicer than any other campsite I've been to for this sort of thing.
• The Organisational Kung Fu: They have dedicated tech teams, dedicated musos, dedicated activity-organiser-ninjas. The result is a very smooth-running machine indeed.
• Integration: Today's programme included a massive activity/game thing, which led seamlessly into the sermon (in terms of theme and relevance to life) in such a way that I reckon it reinforced the Bible's message really strongly.

I'm going to sleep now...