The week is going great...please pray for Kristina Strava though...she's not feeling too good, although she's bounced back a bit...I've been to the store once to pick up a prescription and then again this morning to get her some dayquil, and she seems to be bouncing back a bit so that's good...

Okay...onto the rest...

Surfing was yesterday afternoon...lots of fun...here's a sweet picture of Mitch Vogel getting up on one of his first couple of chances...he's a natural water rat...






There was a fun moment when Robert couldnt' get his rashguard off...he was gettin laughed at pretty hard by a couple of locals...


After dinner we had our evening meeting, and the worship was awesome...to see our students worhiping God togther, full out, with no reservations is simply one of the biggest blessing I get to have...I believe it's a small piece of what Heaven will be like, when we get to worship God without a time limit...This is a picture from this morning...






One of the biggest things I personally was blessed with was a "lightbulb" moment from James 2:10...which talks about breaking just one small part of the law making us guilty of breaking all of it (talking about the need to be perfect in God's eyes, which we can't, which is why we need Christ, HE makes us perfect!) It's a story I'll definitely be sharing on August 15th as the youth take over the main services on that morning :) SO BE THERE!


We had a brief time as a church to meet together after chapel, then more free time...

This morning it was "Dawn Patrol" at 7:00am...an optional worship time...then breakfast, counselor meeting and the morning chapel...

From there it was off to Rec, Day 2..."FOUR WAY GAMES, PART I"...and here's some fun pics from that...










We just finished lunch and now it's off to the beach for some body surfing...I love it...

Gonna "Euro-Bungie" tonight...from the looks of this thing it's like pretending to be a "super ball"...remember those little balls you get for a quarter? mad hops yo!

I'll try to post again tonight..maybe even with a rec vid or two...but it'll probably be late...midnightish


peace!

Well...as my twitter update said...we arrived safe...God answers prayer :)

I can't hide it, I was a little nervous when I saw the bus pull up this morning, as it was the same exact bus that we took last year, and it broke down like 3 times last year...looooooong trip....but we made it with no problems, the ac worked great, and the driver (same guy also) seems to enjoy us...although he seemed to enjoy his cigarette every stop we took--yuck--but he's a nice enough guy...his name is Jeff so maybe you can pray a blessing for him this week too...and at least our bus was on time, after waiting for over 3 hours last week with the Jr Highers!

After we arrived, I was able to get everyone checked in okay (thanks to our staff for having the 8.74 million forms we had to have in alphabetical order!) except for one...Mr Marquis Bentley...who was flying in from Oakland after attending a family member's wedding yesterday. (more in a minute)

Fortunately, I had an extra vehicle with us. After having Dennis here with his car last week, I got the brain storm on Friday to call a couple of friends I have here to see if I could borrow a car...without much trouble I was able to get a loaner..you should see this thing! It's a top of the line mercury sable...from 1987...and it has only 49,000 miles on it! Pretty funny...not a car I would ever choose...I'll take a couple of pics tomorrow and post it...

Back to Marquis...

I had to head to the airport to pick him up (yay me, I still know my way around SD!) and I was able to find him without much trouble...there was just one problem...no luggage!

(question) "Marquis, where's your luggage?!" (answer) "Yeah, about that...."

I had already talked to him once on the phone and he said it might be on the next plane...it wasn't...and I couldn't really figure out how he and his luggage had become separated in the first place...so I had to dig a little...

After some genius investigative talents on my part, I finally got to the bottom of the story...seems my young friend simply "forgot" his luggage at his house! Just walked out the door without it! (Joe Datria anyone???)

So now it's being fed-exed to another parent who lives here in San Diego, and should arrive Tuesday...we'll keep him in clean clothes until then...

A lot of the group doing surfing tomorrow...I'll definitely try to post a pic or two...

It'll probably be after evening chapel..about this same time tomorrow