Camp is just around the corner!

Over the past several weeks, people have asked me the exact same question: "Zeke, how are we going to keep up with you this summer?" Well, as I began to realize how shallow it was to continue to give the answer, "well I guess the best way is through facebook," I decided that I would create this blog to keep everyone "up to date."

I have no clue what to expect from this summer, but I can tell you I already know that God is going to do big things in my life over the next 9ish weeks. I know this because He has already started doing/preparing my heart for great things and wonderful learning opportunities. I leave for camp this coming Sunday (June 5) and I will be heading to Wingate, NC for a time of training before the first week of camp begins. I should probably give you a little bit of background information on just exactly what I will be doing during my summer. I am working with PassportKids! camp in various locations in the east. I will be at a total of 4 different camp locations so you can just imagine how busy the summer is going to be. My official title is Bible Study Leader for kids that are in the 3rd-6th grade. Among other things, I will be teaching bible study to the students everyday that they are at camp and we are doing around 8 camp sessions. Places I will be include Lynchburg, VA; Hartfield, VA; Wingate, NC; and Crossville, TN.

I have no idea why God has called me to this awesome camp, or what my purpose is going to be but I guarantee you He will reveal it to me in a way that is undeniable and unmistakeable. The road to where I am now has not been an easy one and there has been a lot of conviction in my heart. I have realized that I have a major impatience issue and what I have learned most is, nothing is ever going to happen on my time. If it is in God's will for my life, it is only going to happen when He wants it to happen. Thats a pretty hard lesson to learn when not only do I have an impatience issue, but I also have a little bit of a control problem. Mix those two together and it is a pretty messy combination and really only leads to frustration. If you can imagine, this is how I spent most of my year at Gardner-Webb. Hurry up, get the application done, and wait. Interview, and then wait. And then, when the frustration got to its highest point and my impatience was out of control, I find out I am put on the alternate list for Passport. Everything that I thought was right and in God's will seemed to be wrong and crashing around me, or so I thought. Well I was faced with a couple of options, wait and see what Passport had to offer if anything, or look for other options. I chose the second option and I found out real quick that I had picked the wrong option. I ignored it at first, but then it was back to waiting. Lets just say I am a "waiting" pro these days...literally! Two weeks after Passport put me on their alternate list, I got a call from them offering me a job. The feeling I got when I received that phone call was a feeling that I could never begin to explain, but if I had to put it in words, I would say that its like the first time you lose a tooth and you're scared to death to pull it out but when you wake up the next morning, you have money underneath your pillow from the tooth fairy. Wow! That was a terrible description of the emotion that I felt but, hey...it will do. So here I am, finishing up my last preparations to embark on a summer that I will probably never forget.

Now, if you have ever worked camp (which I am talking with great inexperience) you know that spare time is really hard to find, so this will not be an everyday blog. As part of my quite time, I am planning on journaling everyday. So, hopefully once a week I will get to share with you all a journal entry from my journal that will be stored in my backpack all of the time. I look forward to sharing with you "word snapshots" of my summer. Prayer would be greatly appreciated throughout the summer.

"Worry implies that we don’t quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what’s happening in our lives." -Francis Chan

Until the nets are full,
Zeke