Family Camp 2006
It seems a long time ago already since our Family Camp, though it was just a week ago. Here's a couple of pics. . .
The first one is of Jason Evangelista on the famous "Taco." Jason figured out how to stay on when the taco got fully sideways and then land it. Amazing. Other great taco riders included Andrew Smith, Charlie Grey, Kendall Mattina, Wayne Lyons, Dave Obrien, Wesley and John Evans.
The second one is of me running out of gas after everybody but the Gibsons had left on Sunday evening. Don't ask me how that happened. I thought I had plenty. Andy was the hero who talked the young girl at Al's Market into turning on the gas pump after they had all been shut down for the night. What a boyscout! That's me, Andy and what we hoped wasn't a stalker in the car coming up the road.
It was truly an incredible weekend. I didn't want to go home. Sweet fellowship. Great wakeboarding, skiiing and tacoing.
Here's an encouraging email I recieved from John Evans after the weekend. . . .
Tim,You never know what's going to connect with someone, so why don't you invite someone to this Sunday's Fall Kick-Off!
Thanks again for the great boat rides this weekend. Wesley and I are still sore, but the pain was worth the gain. This was our families’ first Grace Campout and both Wesley and Evelyn agree it was one of the highlights of their year.
So thank you for all your hard work and if you see Dori please express our thanks to her too.
On an aside, when we got back to our house Sunday and started unloading a neighbor asked us where we had been all weekend. We told him about the campout, all the fun we had, and about the senior pastor who gave the wildest tube rides. He said “that sounds like a church our family should visit. Which one is it?” You just never know what’s going to connect with someone.
Have a good week,
John Evans
2 comments:
If you're going to throw me under the boat, you can at least throw in the "In & Out"!
I also had someone ask questions like: "really, you're church goes camping? How fun! what church is that? Hmmm, maybe I can go next year?" This, by the way, was the same person who at Easter cautioned me to not scare the kids with the horror story of return of the living Christ. Amazing how something as seemingly trivial and "on the side" like the campout can really make a difference. I think a lot of people assume churches are stodgy and pretentious...some good old fashioned boating and bbq'ing might just get someone interested.
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