Canoemup

I've just got back from another SU vacation camp, this time Canoemup.
Twas brillant, 20 campers - year 8,9 and 10's - 6 days white water kayaking on the Murray River with Geoff Westlake sharing an excellent devo session each day.
Sure the river was WAY low, but you can't have everything you want.
Geoff’s message considered life – birth, living, suffering and death and how ultimately all these find both meaning and purpose when structured under and focused upon Jesus. I’m not in the mood to look at all this in detail, rather just to say the campers/leaders had an excellent chance to hear the Gospel, and wrestle with its application to life.
I also had a small chance to chat with Geoff about church stuff…. Obviously it would not come as any surprise to people who read this blog, that I’m interested and wrestling with church/youth/community stuff. So we talked about ekklesia, now I’m sure everyone knows what the word means etc etc, however what was interesting was the way Geoff spoke of this as an action/plan/ carried out by a few at the city gates and the corresponding changes in the host community… interesting.
So in a nutshell canoemup was great.