Beach Camp 2010 Day 2

Good morning from rainy Florida. The morning started off early for the Iron Indians in Florida. They were running on the beach at 6:00 AM. This was followed by an amazingly hard work out. You can see how hard they worked by looking at the Day 2 Pics. After they drug them selves back up to the house. They showered and we had pancakes for breakfast. After that, it was quiet time and what they are calling "giddy up." It is the morning worship time. While we were in there it decided to do some serious raining. As a matter of fact it is still raining. There was supposed to be a sand castle contest going on this morning, but I think that has been postponed. They are improvising in the worship center right now.

What promised to be a disappointing day, really changed quickly. God let the rain pass on by noon and one of the red flags came down shortly afterword, so after lunch all of the sponsors and students headed for the beach. The students had a great time getting shoved around by the waves, and Jase was out in the middle of them herding them back to our area of the beach. I think that the power of the ocean was an eye opening experience for our land locked students. We rested a little later in the afternoon. After a lasagna supper, we went to worship with Matt. I'm sure this will come as a surprise to everyone, but he really got after it again tonight. Tonight he preached from Acts, 2nd Corinthians, and Galatians. He taught on Paul and how he did not go in search of Jesus, but Jesus invaded his life, and he surrendered his life completely to God. When we have been saved, we no longer live for ourselves, but we live for Christ, and even on our worst days, we are covered by the sacrifice of Christ. The flesh will not go quietly away, and we will not always be perfect. We must go before God daily and ask Him to help us crucify the flesh. Matt used a great illustration here. We can nail one hand and our feet to the cross, but we would be unable to do the last hand. We must ask God to help us crucify the flesh. We cannot do it ourselves. He finished his sermon by talking about the incredible pressure our kids face today. Some of it comes from them, but some of it comes from the parents as well. We ask a lot of our kids when it comes to academics, athletics, and extracurricular activities. We often push them to do what we feel is best for them instead of asking God to point them direction He wants them to go. Whether it is in their relationships or their goals in life, they should put Christ first. If that means not playing in tournaments on Sunday, or not skipping church to work on assignments then so be it. Christ must come first. A point that was amazing was that who is it that gives them the athletic ability, or the ability to succeed in academics or other extracurricular activities. We need to trust God to help mold that ability, not rely on all the other ways, we as parents think we can make them better.

Everyone is enjoying a little free time right now before lights out at 11:30. Tomorrow we are planning on taking them to town to do a little souvenir shopping. Please pray for the sponsors.

There are a lot of new pictures on Day 1 and 2 thanks to Christy Hallum