Wow, I can hardly believe that 3 days from now I'll be on my way up to Berry to start training week for camp. This is going to be a fantastic adventure, and I am SO excited! But I'm also starting to get a little anxious. About what? Well, there's packing, there's meeting my team members, there's planning out track times, set lists, worship practices, staying focused on Jesus while lovign kids all summer and trying to keep up with my Master's, too!! ......... I certainly can't do all of it on my own. This is going to take the sustenance and grace of the Lord Jesus Christ EVERY MOMENT of EVERY DAY to make this work. And as scary as it sounds, that is the PERFECT place to be :)
So for those of you who are still a little unclear on it, here's a link to the WinShape camps website. If it doesn't come straight up to the C3 website, be sure to click the little "C3" tag. Watch the video, read the info... it's awesome what we're about to go do. I am so jazzed about WinShape's vision for this camp and how to reach communities through these camps. It's so much more than just fun. God is gonna do HUGE things!
More about C3 camp
FAQs:
*What exactly are you doing personally?
Well my official title for my team is "Worship Leader," but that doesn't mean I'm the female version of Chris Tomlin. No, that just means I'm the one playing guitar and singing the melody most of the time :) I get the awesome privilege of playing with 3 guys in a band and helping kids learn how to praise Jesus, as well as just being a servant leader for the other folks on my team. I'm super pumped.
*Where are you going?
My team is going to 9 cities total. I'll be able to join them at 7 of those locations (sadly, I have to leave after week 7 for some more adventures back at the homestead getting ready for school next year). Here is a list of those locations!
Week/Dates City
June 8-12 Ft. Worth, TX
June 15-19 Lafayette, LA
June 22-26 Tifton, GA
June 29-July 3 Pasadena, TX
July 6-10 Broken Arrow, OK
July 13-17 Germantown, TN
July 20-24 Plano, TX
July 27-31 Lake Charles, LA
Aug. 3-7 Killeen, TX
* How can I pray for you and your team?
Great question! We would greatly appreciate your prayers, as would the other C3 and boys'/girls camp teams! You can pray for safe travel, good health, unity among our team, for the Holy Spirit to go before us and do mighty things, for protection from the little things the Enemy would do (equipment mess-ups, budget break-downs, you name it) to defame the name of Christ, and for kids and their parents to come to know Jesus!! That's probably not even everything, but it's a start. Thanks in advance!
Be sure to check back in with my blog, I'll be updating and posting pictures whenever I can!
Blessings and hugs,
KP :)
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
It's time for an adventure!
Well hello all! It's been quite a while since I last blogged, I know. I mean, I've just been sitting around doing nothing, so I don't know why I haven't gotten to it... ;) Okay we all know THAT'S not true. It has been CRAZY getting to the end of the year!! But here we are - finals this week and then the kids are out, I do the post-planning thing, and that's it for my first year of teaching! WOW!!
I can't believe that it's already pretty much over. It just flew by. It feels like yesterday I was sitting in my classroom scared beyond all reason about my kids coming in the next week, and we've already finished up our year together. I pray I have made a difference, made a positive impact... I pray they'll remember something! Hopefully the math sticks, and some organizational skills stick, and some vocabulary, and some math history... but more than that, I hope they become better people because of the little bit of time I spent with them. If it happens, it is ONLY because God in his Holy Spirit worked through me this year, it is certainly not because of anything I did. Because oh boy, did I mess up a lot!
I have learned SO much this year. I now know how NOT to manage a classroom, how NOT to handle guided study, how NOT to assign projects, how NOT to take up cell phones and iPods (or rather how TO)... so many things I did wrong, but I can learn from them and turn it around next year. At one point this year I was doing some soul-searching about teaching and thinking gosh, I just can't do this job. I mean I can do the teaching part, but the administrating and the organizing and the accounting and all else, I can't handle that... maybe I should do camp or something all the time that I enjoy and can do better at. And God has gently reminded me over the past few weeks just how his Kingdom works. He doesn't pick the people who are good at things to go do things they're good at. He picks people who AREN'T good at things to go do those very things, so that when something good comes from it, HE gets the glory. That's what He's doing in my life, right now, in this teaching journey. And when I think about it like that, I want to boast all the more about my weaknesses! (2 Corinthians 12: 9-10) So bring on the tough stuff. I openly confess that I don't know how to do it, can't do it, and won't be able to do it on my own. Great :) that gives God LOTS of room to do BIG THINGS!! (sweet)
Another place God has the chance to show up big is starting the WinShape Camp. In case any of you don't know, I'm going to be leading worship for a 1st-6th grade kids camp this summer called WinShape C3. yes, that's the Chick-fil-A WinShape I'm referring to, but my camp isn't up at Berry all summer. I'll be moving around with my team to 7 cities (they'll do 9, but I have to miss the last two :( *cry* ) around the U.S. We'll be doing a day camp, partnering with local churches and chick-fila's to bring the good news of Jesus to communities all over. I'm SO pumped! The scary parts: 1) I head off to camp the very next day after post-planning is over. 2) I'll be playing with a band of guys who are awesome I'm sure, we just won't get to practice like, at all.... I'm sure there's more to be scared about, like staying healthy and not losing my voice, finding some way to eat right while we're out at restaurants all the time... the list goes on.
But God is good and I can't WAIT to see what He's going to do through all this. I'll keep everybody posted (probably via this blog, isn't that what it's for?) and let you know how things are going. Pictures of kids are always fun, too :)
OH YEAH I started my maste'rs degree online. That's right, I'll be doing summer camp AND summer school online. What was I thinking? Apparently too much at once... like always =D.
That's all for now!! Hugs and blessings,
KP
I can't believe that it's already pretty much over. It just flew by. It feels like yesterday I was sitting in my classroom scared beyond all reason about my kids coming in the next week, and we've already finished up our year together. I pray I have made a difference, made a positive impact... I pray they'll remember something! Hopefully the math sticks, and some organizational skills stick, and some vocabulary, and some math history... but more than that, I hope they become better people because of the little bit of time I spent with them. If it happens, it is ONLY because God in his Holy Spirit worked through me this year, it is certainly not because of anything I did. Because oh boy, did I mess up a lot!
I have learned SO much this year. I now know how NOT to manage a classroom, how NOT to handle guided study, how NOT to assign projects, how NOT to take up cell phones and iPods (or rather how TO)... so many things I did wrong, but I can learn from them and turn it around next year. At one point this year I was doing some soul-searching about teaching and thinking gosh, I just can't do this job. I mean I can do the teaching part, but the administrating and the organizing and the accounting and all else, I can't handle that... maybe I should do camp or something all the time that I enjoy and can do better at. And God has gently reminded me over the past few weeks just how his Kingdom works. He doesn't pick the people who are good at things to go do things they're good at. He picks people who AREN'T good at things to go do those very things, so that when something good comes from it, HE gets the glory. That's what He's doing in my life, right now, in this teaching journey. And when I think about it like that, I want to boast all the more about my weaknesses! (2 Corinthians 12: 9-10) So bring on the tough stuff. I openly confess that I don't know how to do it, can't do it, and won't be able to do it on my own. Great :) that gives God LOTS of room to do BIG THINGS!! (sweet)
Another place God has the chance to show up big is starting the WinShape Camp. In case any of you don't know, I'm going to be leading worship for a 1st-6th grade kids camp this summer called WinShape C3. yes, that's the Chick-fil-A WinShape I'm referring to, but my camp isn't up at Berry all summer. I'll be moving around with my team to 7 cities (they'll do 9, but I have to miss the last two :( *cry* ) around the U.S. We'll be doing a day camp, partnering with local churches and chick-fila's to bring the good news of Jesus to communities all over. I'm SO pumped! The scary parts: 1) I head off to camp the very next day after post-planning is over. 2) I'll be playing with a band of guys who are awesome I'm sure, we just won't get to practice like, at all.... I'm sure there's more to be scared about, like staying healthy and not losing my voice, finding some way to eat right while we're out at restaurants all the time... the list goes on.
But God is good and I can't WAIT to see what He's going to do through all this. I'll keep everybody posted (probably via this blog, isn't that what it's for?) and let you know how things are going. Pictures of kids are always fun, too :)
OH YEAH I started my maste'rs degree online. That's right, I'll be doing summer camp AND summer school online. What was I thinking? Apparently too much at once... like always =D.
That's all for now!! Hugs and blessings,
KP
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