2004 Summer Camp
August 30, 2004

     There have been few times in my life where I have felt speechless or have had writer’s block.  This is one of them.  During the week of August 9-14, Team Narrow Road led a week long camp for 60 students within our ministry area.  Prior to the camp, I sent an email to the team of Narrow Road camp counselor’s, stating that I believed this would be Narrow Road’s finest hour to date.  In writing that, I believed we would be used of God in such a way as to inspire the students to live for Jesus Christ to the glory and renown of our Father.  What I did not know at that time was that God was going to use this week to bring about an end to generational sins and to call a generation forth to be the ones to break these strongholds.
 

     The messages at camp focused on calling each student to make a decision by the end of the week to walk into their homes either living for Jesus Christ or living for Satan.  With that theme in mind, the messages were centered around Acts 20:22-24.  The message topics discussed what true worship is, what it really means to be a Christian, an understanding of brokenness and why brokenness is vital to our usefulness to Christ, the daily practices of a Christian life, and the joy and freedom that can only be found in Jesus Christ.  There was one particular message where the speaker stood in a canoe with a cross standing up in the water while the students sat on the embankment.  At the end of the message, students had come into the water and were visibly weeping over the cross and saying how they wanted to live for Jesus Christ and be baptized into His name.  It was a scene that I will never forget.

     This week I believe I saw the vision of Narrow Road lived out.  This vision is to be a ministry that unashamedly walks with others as we uncompromisingly walk with Christ.  A place where finding God is more important than personal agendas.  Where wonder and awe are the norm.  Where leaders lead by servant example.  Where personal rights, worldly dreams and worldly desires are abandoned for a heavenly citizenship, a heavenly mindset and heavenly standards.