Wow…great day.  We had about 30 boys who showed up for the “Polar Bear Aqua Training” at 6:00AM…woof.  Nothing like a good early morning chicken fight to get your blood pumping!!!

We focused on John 15:5 as our memory verse today and talked about the difference between Conduits and Cul-de-Sac’s – and the fact that we were built to be conduits…or as Jesus calls us, “branches”.  As an attached branch/conduit we transfer Christ’s ______ (fill in the blank) to those around us (fruit of the Spirit).  That is our purpose…we have been transformed into CONDUIT MAN!! 

During the day, we asked for our counselors to follow up with all of our boys to see if they had any questions concerning the Gospel presentation from the night before.  There were quite a few who were still wrestling with a number of different questions.  By the end of the evening, the Lord had drawn about 3 more boys to Himself that we are now Brothers in Christ with!!!  Praise God!

Our team competition last night was our skit competition…what a riot!!!  We have some natural comedians in our midst!  Since they were all so good, we had to break them down into winners of categories…like the Oscar’s – Best Comedy (Scorchers), Best Musical (Senseis), Best Technical Production (Crimson Truth), Best Horror Flick (Shadow Hawks), Best Soakery (Grizzlies).

Also last night, we had our second annual “Calling Out” of our 6th grade boys.  As men, we need to be called to something greater than ourselves and encouraged that we “have what it takes” to be Dangerous…for Good.  I believe that it was very impactful and pretty emotional for all involved.

Tomorrow will be bittersweet…looking forward to being home, but sad to leave!

In Him,

Jason & Matt