I spent the weekend on Catalina Island with the Junior Highers going through our Confirmation Class. Over and over again, the same themes emerged: To discover and know God we need Creation, the Word and the Community--all three. All three point us ultimately to our need for Christ and the call to be part of the body of Christ for the sake of the whole world and all of creation. The teenagers were fun-loving, inquisitive and eager to experience everything we threw at them. They did team building exercises, wrote statements of faith, asked the nagging questions they needed answered and danced around a fire ring until my sides hurt from laughing.
They are as interested in how the world was made and the wonders of it as they are in how they are made and the wonders of love and sex. They delight in both dolphins and dodge ball with equal vigor. They laughed hard and talked a lot, but fell silent at seeing a sunrise with a pod of dolphins swimming by. They are a joy and it is a privilege to be their pastor.
I'll be adding more pictures to my photo albums. But for more on the weekend, see Bernie Wohlfarth's blog.
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