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Brian Frick is the Associate for Camp and Conferences Ministries with the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He has been involved in camp and conference ministry since high school. For the past ten years, Brian has served as program director of Johnsonburg Center in New Jersey, Westminster Woods in California, and Heartland Center in Missouri.
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Transformation! Deep and Wide
I'd like to share with you some of my favorite and most inspiring "finds" this spring. The videos of Deep and Wide.
I was a bit skeptical at first - the PCUSA creating videos to tout success stories. I was worried it would be self-serving and maybe not creative. But WOW! I was blown away.
The two that move me deeply are these.
That Kind of Servanthood Really Changes Lives"
"Evangelism is sharing God's Heart"
I hope you take the time to listen to the Spirit alive and how people like you and me, heard the Spirit's call and turned it into action. These two churches are alive and vibrant - but different - transformed through the work of the Holy Spirit through the Church.
A friend of mine, Rev. Don Owens, Executive Presbyter of Southern Kansas told me last year that he gets called into a lot of churches that tell him "we want to change! We want to grow!" And when they take him around and show him all the great things they have been doing for years but are pondering why no new young people want to come do these things with them, he eventually tells them -
Rev. Don Owens - (I'm paraphrasing his response to me) "I've got good news and bad news. The bad news is your congregations, as you know it, is going to die. The good news is you can choose how to die! You can either get out into the neighborhood, hear where God is calling you to be, serve, and welcome, - and become a vibrant witness for your community in the way the community needs it - or please make sure the last person to die, turns the lights out."
Where are you as a camp and conference center?
How do you listen for the spirit?
Where are you taking risks to change who you are to become what God wants?
How do you respond to Jesus' command to "follow me, even unto death."?
Where is the Spirit alive and growing in your work?
How are you getting out of your camp/conference center and engaging your community?
Where are you being missional in your vision for your future?
- Posted at 11:47 a.m.
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