My open-mic/radio at my beloved May Camp
My my, can you believe it's been 40 days since my last post? Oh, you can? Sorry.
There are many things that can be done in 40 days - the UK's summer holidays, a squirrel's pregnancy or even a rainy boating trip. I did none of these things, but nor have I been twiddling my thumbs.
May has been by far the craziest month of my year/life. It has seen the likes of my very first photography exhibition, radio appearances, a bucket of assemblies, May Camp and the build up to the Seriously Awesome Animals holiday club that I have run this week. It has been well and truly mad. Hence no new posts or any letters to family. But, it's been great fun as always!
The exhibition titled Blue and Beyond at the Look and Sea centre (http://lookandsea.co.uk/) looked great and so many people went to see it. I got a very nice, but mysterious, phone call from someone who went to see the exhibition and would like to see some of my India photos.
The same weekend as my private-view, I also went on BBC Sussex with my fellow YES-Schemer, Zara, for just over 15 minutes for an interview with Gavin Ashenden. It was meant to be a chance to promote the YES Scheme next year, but as regular listeners will know, Gavin is very chatty! So in the promotion sense, we failed as we didn't mention the website address.
Or email.
Or phone number.
But it was great fun!
Also in May, was May Camp. Before I get any sarccy comments, it has fallen in June before. I absolutely love May Camp! This was my tenth time of going and for the first time, I went as crew. The camp is run by YES, hence me working. My team and I where given a number of tasks. We were given the café to run, a toastie shop to run, May Camp's Got Talent to run, the open mic to run, the radio to run, a talk to run, a seminar to run, the evening-worship sessions to run and some of us even had our youth groups to take as well! I didn't, but I took on the open-mic and radio for the weekend. I've done radio before, but it is quite scary playing your own playlists to hundreds of teenagers who will eat you for breakfast (after their eggy-bread) if you play a load of __________. But they loved it! It was an amazing camp where God was so close. Bring on MC 2011!
So that finally brings us on to the holiday club. After months of work, we finally had Seriously Awesome Animals this week! Technically it finishes tomorrow, but the bulk of it is done. It's been a great week, but not many children. We had just over 30 children over the week, which was disappointing, but it was great to see 30 smiles at the end of each day! They've had fun, learnt about God and they now know that the church is there and open. I had a fantastic team who really put their heart into serving. Ann (who I've been living with this year) has been brilliantly wise and supportive in the long term preparation, and Luke has been incredibly helpful in the last couple of weeks.
May has not been a month of doing favours for God. May has been a month of God serving people through me. It's been a real honour to be able to do his work. It's been a blessing that I have had this year to do this full time. It's no wonder I've enjoyed it so much, I'm working for the best boss in existence.
"The time is near when all things will end. So think clearly and control yourselves so you will be able to pray. Most importantly, love each other deeply, because love will cause people to forgive each other for many sins. Each of you has received a gift to use to serve others. Be good servants of God's various gifts of grace. Anyone who speaks should speak words from God. Anyone who serves should serve with the strength God gives so that in everything God will be praised through Jesus Christ. Power and glory belong to him forever and ever. Amen."
1 Peter 4 : 7-11
Amen, right? I don't know when all things will end, only the Father knows that, but my time in Eastbourne is nearly at an end. I don't know how much time I'll have to serve others next year, but after this year I don't think I could cope without spending at least a little time serving. It should be very interesting come September when I will have to make that time, but I think God will give me as much time as I need.
Power and glory belong to him forever and ever. Amen
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