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High School Summer Camp has ended and this blog is about to return to its regular programming, but first a few last photos from Honey Creek:

More Camp Photos

Looking at the photos from camp so far you would think we spend the whole time inthe chapel. They also have sea kayaking, pool time, crafts, ropes and more. Here lunch is pictured as well as high ropes time including two from King of Peace, Auston and your correspondent.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

Discovering Jesus

Today our program time is not an hour with all the campers together. Instead campers are signed up to go to the chapel in 10 minute intervals through the day (with breaks for lunch and dinner) from 9 a.m. until 8 p.m. when the last person finishes. In the chapel, they work their way around the ten stations shown below as they listen to a guided meditation called Discovering Jesus with activities to do at some of the stations. The teens who have come out of their hour long experience so far are giving the meditative experience high marks.

One Small Change

Victoria and I are still at the Diocese of Georgia's camp and conference center, Honey Creek for the high school session of summer camp.

Last night for the camp eucharist (which we celebrate once toward the end of the week) we made one small change to the service. The words and music were all as we would usually do in the chapel as is typical. The one change was to bring in 13 tables and set up the look of a banquet. Not an unlucky number, 13 was Jesus and the 12 apostles. But that was a fortunate occurance as 13 6-foot tables is also what it took to fit everyone so they could be seated. There were grapes on the candlelit tables. Just enough to represent The Last Supper.

The readings were the ones for this coming Sunday. In the sermon, I connected the life of Saint Francis of Assisi to the readings and our theme this week of Amor Es Revolucinario (Love Is Revolutionary). The Rev. Denise Ronn was ably assisted by Lilly and Samantha who assisted at the altar. The readings were well done by the campers, the music was energetic and the whole service came together well. Very different in feel due to the one small change in the setting. Camp ends tomorrow. But today, we have one more trick up our sleeves. More later...

Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

Summer Camp Photos

The High School session of summer camp at Honey Creek is going well. Above, you can see us worshipping together in the chapel, which we do each morning and evening. It is led by the teens. Below are photos showing a bit of camp life, including the teens broken into small groups in the chapel to discuss the material being presented on waht it was about Jesus that made some people want to leave everything to follow him, while others wanted him to die. Auston, Brandy, Kalyn and Griffin are enjoying being campers and Victoria and I are enjoying serving on the staff.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

Why Was Jesus Killed?

Victoria and I are at Honey Creek from yesterday through Saturday to serve at the High School session of summer camp at Honey Creek. There are 39 high school students from around the diocese here for the week, including four from King of Peace.

Each day we will worship together and do the usual camp stuff (ropes course, pool time, crafts, games and more) and we'll have an hour of program time which is when the religious theme for the week gets played out. All camp sessions this summer will look at the question Who Is Jesus? to have the campers discover more about our Lord. For the high school session, we are going to have them consider not Why did Jesus die? which gets an answer about what God was doing through Jesus' death (answer: Jesus died for our sins). Instead, we will ask, Why did people want Jesus dead? This question gets at the revolutionary nature of Jesus' teaching as well as his life and ministry.

Part of the answer is that people wanted Jesus dead because he broke down the barriers between clean and unclean, between the elite and the outcast. Jesus threatened the way things work and the people who benefited from life as it was already, didn't want that to happen. We created ways the teens can enter more deeply into the question to discover what they find to be revolutionary today in how Jesus lived and how he asked us to live.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue. Pastor

Leadership

The Rev. Dr. Roger Ferlo
Since Sunday evening, I have been at Honey Creek for the Diocese of Georgia Clergy Conference. We were led in thinking through issues of leadership in the church by the Rev. Dr. Roger Ferlo, Associate Dean and Director for the Institute for Christian Formation and Leadership at my alma mater, Virginia Theological Seminary.

We looked at leadership as shown in some large swaths of scripture (Exodus 3-4, 18; Galatians 2; and Luke 22) as well as some models for leadership and how power is exercised, including Carl Dudley's Three Styles of Pastoral Leadership; Goleman's Emotional Intelligence; Roy Oswald's Power Analysis of a Congregation; and French and Raven's Five Bases of Social Power. In the photo above, Roger is getting us to consider positive aspects of leadership and the challenges.

One scriptural example was Exodus 18 in which Moses' early pattern of doing all the leading on his own was dealt with by his father-in-law Jethro who said, "What you are doing is not good. You will surely wear yourself out, both you and these people with you."

Throughout his time with us, both in and out of formal discussions, Ferlo led the gathered clergy through a biblically grounded, thoughtful consideration of leadership in the church, both lay and clergy. I enjoyed the presentations as well as a chance to be with my fellow clergy in the Diocese of Georgia.

Looking for more of what we covered? Try this online version of one model we considered: Parker Palmer's Leading from Within: Reflections on spirituality and leadership.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

The Rev. Jim Shumard comments in a discussion.

Honey Creek Summer Camp

The video above is a good introduction to the summer camp program at Honey Creek, our Episcopal Camp at the north end of Camden County. I highly recommend the Summer Camp at Honey Creek. I will be working as a spiritual director for the High School Camp session and know that all of the sessions will offer a quality program. The sessions will be:

High School Camp
June 8-14, 2008 (June 8-June 14)
For campers who have completed 9th-12th grades.
register online or contact us to sign-up

St. Joseph & Mary Camp
July, 6-12, 2008 (July 6-July 12)
For campers who have completed 3rd-5th grades.
register online or contact us to sign-up

St. Francis Camp
July 13-19, 2008 (July 13-July 19)
For campers who have completed 7th-9th grades.
register online or contact us to sign-up

St. Peter Camp
June 15-21-2008 (June 15-June 21)
For campers who have completed 6th-8th grades.
register online or contact us to sign-up

St. Gregory
June 22-28, 2008 (June 22-June 28)
For campers who have completed 3rd-6th grades.
The main focus of this camp is music, especially singing.

Please pass this information along to those you know who are looking for a summer camp experience for their children and grandchildren. All camp sessions are $350.00 for the week. At $50 a day, it is a bargain. Scholarship assistance is also available with the approval of an Episcopal priest who can verify the need for the Diocese and so finances should not be what keeps anyone away.

peace,
Frank+
The Rev. Frank Logue, Pastor

Feasts for the Eyes

The Episcopal Church and the Visual Arts has a new online exhibit called Feasts for the Eyes. Curator Judith McManis writes,

My own reaction was probably much like your own.
I looked at all the images, really connected with a few, had almost no reaction to some and thought I actually disliked others. I then read all the stories, knowing how much I needed to know about these wonderful artists and their offerings. I happened to have scheduled a weekend retreat at Holy Cross Monastery in upper New York state and left the images and their stories to ‘simmer’ over that time. Upon looking at them again, I found I really did have ‘new eyes’. Particularly with those that had previously troubled me, I saw new aspects, new layers and new connections with the Spirit.

Her full statement is here: Curator's Statement. Click on any of the pieces shown here at the blog to go to the page about that work. Then you can click on other artists' names in the left column to see more pieces from this exhibit.



Another Feast for the Eyes
Our daughter congregation, The Episcopal Church of Our Savior at Honey Creek, held its first worship service this past Sunday with 75 people present including the King of Peace Ensemble. Photos are online at their blog Sunrise on the Marsh.

Connections

October 5-7, the Connections conference will meet at Honey Creek. Put on by the Diocese of Georgia's Christian formation commission, there is a great line up for the retreat and an impressive group of people coming together to put on the weekend. The topics will include Centering Prayer, Liturgy, the Work of the People, Raising & Razing – Setting Your Youth Ministry On Fire, Retirement with Grace, and Vibrant Vestries, Bedrock of Healthy Congregations. Even if none of those topics rings a bell with you, but a retreat weekend on the marsh at Honey Creek does, then take a look at their website for more information as this is a top-notch conference and it may be just what God has for you in the coming month.

The full information on this meeting is found online here Connections at Honey Creek