Summer Week Three Update

The third week of summer camp has come and gone. I’m at CROSSINGS AT THE CREEK on Kentucky Lake. It’s a beautiful campus with lots of fun stuff to do. The pic is the winners of the big “Crossing OF the Creek” boat race. The Whacky shaped Superman boat flew across the top of the water. God did some remarkable things during the week.

In response to my first week at Crossings, I am learning to speak without “F’s” and “TH’s.” At the end of the first full day of camp, some staffers were goofing off with Airsoft guns (misnomer!) and taking pot-shots at some of us from the back of the worship center. I got hit in the sleeve by a shot and turned around laughing with my mouth open just wide-enough to take a BB to the tooth. The score is now BB-1, Tooth-0. An emergency ROOT CANAL and some superglue later I’m back to smiling again. I’ve debated whether or not to post a picture of “Tealy the Toothless Wonder.” Maybe once the full dental process is over I’ll post before and after pics.

I leave for BOTSWANA in a few days. Remember to pray for me and the rest of the team July 2nd - 13th. It’s a long travel day and busy days of ministry once we get there. We’ll be doing AIDS EDUCATION in schools and with orphans as well as a weekend retreat for students from around Southern Africa. I’ll also do some concerts a couple of evenings sponsored by churches around Gaborone. I believe there is great power in specific prayer so PRAY, PRAY, PRAY.

Tealy Sermoncast I-IV

I promised I would post sermons from this summer and here they are. I wasn’t able to record the first night but here are the four other sermons from Fuge at North Greenville University. Clicking on the pic to the right opens the podcasts in iTunes.

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WEEK ONE, NIGHT 2 (Matthew 10:5-10)
WEEK TWO, NIGHT 3 (Matthew 10:11-15)
WEEK TWO, NIGHT 4 (Matthew 10:16-31)
WEEK ONE, NIGHT 5 (Matthew 10:32-39)

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Summer Week Two Update

I survived another week of the summer. It was a big and energetic group at North Greenville for the second week of summer camp. My favorite part of working with FUGE in the summer is the staff. They hire the cream of the crop and I felt pretty honored again to get to work with them. Watching the way AJ is around his students. The wisdom Jason brings to his group. The patience Chasen expresses to his percussion track. The unstoppable force of Ana’s smile. The grace and confidence in the leadership of Sarah, Alicia, Beth and JJ. It was a remarkable two weeks and I’m a better man for getting to hang out with that crew. Big love to Mike, Dave, Chase, Andy, and Zack for playing along with me a couple of nights. These guys all had responsibilities all day long and then showed extra early to figure out a couple of new tunes so I could rawkstar it up one night. I’ve arrived in Kentucky for a couple of weeks at CROSSINGS AT THE CREEK. I’ll try and get the sermons up from last week in the next day or two. PROMISE!

New Music Recommendation of the Week

BLUE WATER BAND - LIVE AT UNION. These guys are leading worship with me in Greenville, SC. Top notch talents covering some of the greatest worship songs being used these days. The CD includes “Beautiful One,” “Sing ot the King” and camp favorite “Undignified.”(Clicking on the cover art to the left opens the CD in the iTunes music store.)

Summer Week One Update

My favorite image from week one of the summer. This picture is both sweet and tragic to me. The cute little boy in the picture was on one of the mission sites where our students were working. He is cute and charismatic and full of energy. He was also a mess; a dirty sweater, a nose that hadn’t been wiped clean in weeks. Hungry for attention and desperate for affection. In the summer I get to watch students from all over the US wander into the communities we serve carrying hope and love with them as they go. We have an amazing crew of 35 creative, energetic staffers. A new family to carry me through these crazy summer weeks.

I’ve promised I would post the sermons from this summer in the podcast. I will do that next week. I PROMISE. Check back here to find those. I’ll get 18 hours at home and then it’s time for week two. Pray that I’ll have the energy to survive this schedule. I feel a little older every day. Wait…I am a little older every day!

Camp 2006

I just arrived at my first week of summer student camps. I’m in Greenville, SC for the next couple of weeks. Spent the day getting to know the staff and catching up with old friends. It’s a little strange to wander back into this world but the energy of it all is refreshing. I had intended to finish a new Songcast before camp started. No Luck. All the pieces are there I just haven’t put them together. I also intend on podcasting my speaking from the different camps this summer. We’ll see how motivated I get. Let the sleepless, non-stop rush of summer camp begin!