My Epic Journey

We kicked off our new series, Can You Hear Me Now? this weekend at EPIC.  To introduce the series we showed a clip from Tim Hawkins on bedtime prayers.  Very funny!

I thought I would take a moment and give you a glimpse into the world of the Middle School side of camp.  Between chapels, nature hikes, the flying squirrel and fizz wars, the middle schools are seen hanging around and getting to know new friends.

Chapels are great.  The middle school speaker is Tim Vine.  He is going through the New Testament using the Walk Thru the Bible curriculum.  It is a really good program that teaches students the Bible through catchy phrases and hand motions.

And by the way, our high schoolers had a talent show last night that Anna taped.  Look for that video to come out soon!

After some great worship with Tim Timmons and another devotional piece by Duffy Robbins, the day started differently than the last two. 

We no longer were in our 8 hour intensive tracks.  We could chose a number of different shorter tracks.  I chose Mark DeVries, president and founder of Youth Ministry Architects.  His track was on Building a Sustainable Youth Ministry.  Though I have been a youth pastor for 12 years, I know I can still learn a great deal about healthy youth ministry.

Over all I would give the conference a C+.  My only complaint is that I was hoping for a conference about WHERE youth ministry is GOING.  Not necessarily about where it has been and where it is at now.

If you interested in attending next year, click here.  It is in Chicago next year.