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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