Growing Anticipation...

Tonight was the official start of something very exciting...no my friends, I did not have a date. However, we had a team meeting and that team meeting consisted of discussing plans for starting club of our own at Central Crossing High School, home of the Comets. Whoooo! We laid out plans for the next two and a half weeks basically, ranging from Campaigner lessons and who was speaking, to the large group games that we are going to play that will temporarily break us away from visiting other clubs. We decided to do things this way because we haven't had an opportunity other than the Christmas party to do something that is more of an outreach event on a larger level by ourselves. This whole year we've been visiting other clubs from around Columbus, including: Worthington Kilbourne, Dublin Coffman, Grove City, Westland, Hilliard Darby, and my former home Upper Arlington. Our kids have had great times visiting most of these clubs and attendance has continued in a generally upward trend, especially among the guys. New kids seems to come every week, and there is definitely an excitement in the air about camp. 

The coolest thing for me though, has been the growth of Campaigners on Sunday nights. We are blessed that it hasn't just been a horizontal growth, as in only the amount of kids coming, but more importantly a vertical growth as well, as the kids continue to open themselves up and be vulnerable and ask all sorts of questions in front of each other. 

Back to the whole club thing though... It was incredibly exciting for me to discuss this all with the team, and then when it came down to figuring out who was going to be speaking on the various nights and talking about some specifics for our two weeks of games as well as Campaigners, to watch them get excited and their eyes start to light up. I can't even imagine what they are thinking and feeling right now. Although I must retract that previous statement somewhat; I'm excited out of my mind to be starting up our own club at CCHS in a way that will hopefully be lasting with a great foundation upon Christ and nothing else. 

So if you all could be praying for the ministry at CCHS, as well as our team (Nathan, Vivake, David, Trisha, and myself), and the kids there as we endeavor to prayerfully start our own club that would be amazing. As this excitement keeps building I'm sure I'll have many much more entries about all this and the work that God is doing. All glory to God, Amen.

Also, if anyone who reads this could pray for the soul and life of one Cameron Stewart, that would be great. He needs saving in too many ways to count; namely his fashion sense, his way with women, his overgrown nasal hair, his toe fungus, his smelling like cabbage, and his liking of the Milwaukee Brewers.