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!
June 11th, 2006 at 1:11 pm
I just wanted to thank you for what you did this week. I was one of the campers from week one. You really touched me alot, alot of times the speaker just makes you an emotional mess, but they dont actually understand what the speaker is saying. With you, you did the total opposite, ya i cried, but i understood everything you said and will always remember this year. Working in the children’s ministry with Christie was AWESOME, the children were great and i will cherish this year. Thank You again and keep letting God talk through you to others.
Casey Wiggins
June 11th, 2006 at 1:29 pm
Hey James,
I was at c-fuge this week . . . it was incredible! The coolest sermon was probably either the one where you talked about being a funnel or the last one when you were talking about sacrificing our lives to Christ. You were great and alot of people in my church were impacted by what you said.
June 11th, 2006 at 5:39 pm
James,
I was one of the first week adults at NGU Fuge.
In a day of driving the van and the other stuff the old folks do, your PM messages were a real blessing and motivational. It was really great seeing you out on site. Preachers and speakers too many times don’t get out and see what’s going on.
I am looking around for a house for a concert.
What a concept, just like the troubadors of old.
June 11th, 2006 at 8:49 pm
Hello James,
I just wanted to stop in and thank you for your sermons through week 1 (yeah … I was there … ). It was nice to get a more scripture-oriented pastor at camp. I was one of the kids you ate breakfast with when you arrived late. I was also the one whom you gave the autograph with the scripture Psalm 71: 17-18. Yes, I looked it up.
I am truly going to make an effort to share Christ more often with those around me. I am the drum captain in my high school marching band and tomorrow is the beginning of our week long camp. If you could keep me in prayer that I will share what I know with those that will be there I would appreciate it. I am excited, perhaps God is too? I think so anyway.
Thank you once. Thank you twice. But most of all, thank you in Christ.
- Fausto Morales
Week 1 FBC Key Largo ( … Montego … baby why don’t we go?)
June 12th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Dear James,
I like my friend Fausto(who commented you as well), am a week 1 camper who was touched by your sermons and also ate breakfast with you that same day.
Your Sermons helped God truly open my heart and I just wanted to let you know that I am going to give my everything to God so that He may do His will through me. Im so excited about sharing my relationship with Jesus Christ with others and just wanted to thank you and all the other staffers.
~In Christ
Tyler Boban Week One
June 12th, 2006 at 5:01 pm
TEALY (you know kinda teal, but not really…tealy haha),
I went to week one of M-Fuge. You were amazing. Like I told you I really appretiate you being willing to let God work through you, because He is! The main point that hit me the hardest is when you told us that “God’s peace is bigger than our circumstances.” That is a wonderful thing to realize. I also wanted to let you know that I really liked the songs you sang, they had such meaning and I wish you the best. I pray for your sleep and energy, but most of all I pray that you keep your willing soul, even after M-Fuge. God Bless you, and hopefully I’ll get to meet you again. Thanks
One more thing: working with TUBA STEVE in children’s ministry was awesome!!
Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, and today is a gift; thats why they call it the present. God Bless you
Love from Above,
Ian Pierson