Serving All Saints Camp
Serving on the team of deans for All Saints Camp is the best week of ministry in my year. The kind of loving and supportive community that we create for the campers -- which mixes fun, the challenge of doing something unusual and perhaps uncomfortable (like be outdoors in a Texas summer or live in a cabin together with 9 other kids), and the opportunity to have their relationship with Jesus put at the center of their lives – makes real spiritual growth possible, and in many cases, tangible. That is, as a priest I have the privilege of seeing many children come to a new awareness of God’s love for them and what this might make possible for their lives “back home.” At Camp All Saints they can discover that they are always home in Christ wherever they are, and that the community of faith (aka, the Church) is where joy and true adventure are to be found.