Faith Camp 2009 - Part 1

What an amazing time we had at this year's Faith Camp. In fact, so much happened that I'm going to do a special 4-Part Blog this week taking a closer look at some of the highlights. Yesterday's meeting also enjoyed the overflow of all that God poured into us during the seven days; an hour of worship followed by an hour and twenty minutes of rich, exciting, high quality testimonies. So, where do I start? The whole week was totally different to any previous Camps as BCC is in a totally different place; the Unit unity was tangible! We had a number of people come along who had never been to Faith Camp as well as some of the 'regulars'. There was a great sense of peace and fun on the Unit and Dave and Nicky / Gerry and Fran did another outstanding job as Unit / Assistant Unit Leaders respectively.

Here are some words I associate with this year's event: chocolate ginger bread (I made some and it all got eaten within 48 hours!), cold showers BUT hot showers by the end of the week!, volleyball (we won the Volleyball Tournament beating all other competition on the site and doing the whole thing in camp (geddit?) retro style as the boys wore pink, luminous vests. Great work to the Team), psycho-wasps, 12-hours of solid rain followed by solid sun, Marmite cashew nuts (a rather serendipitous discovery whilst walking around Tescos one afternoon), Clive Urquhart (Colin announced he is relinquishing the leadership of Faith Camp to Clive freeing him up to concentrate on preaching and ministering), worship (this year's crop of songs are probably the best ever - we did one yesterday morning in the Church and it was awesome, I recommend the new album Champion of the World, available from their website), messages (the preached word was clear, inspiring and simple, so much of what we have been taught since last Camp came through from the platform this year - we are hearing God) and chats (it was so good to talk to lots of different people and build friendships).

That's a taster of my favourite moments, but what about you? Do leave a post if you want. More tomorrow....