West Cocoa Chat

As I type this latest / post camp / post we here in Central Florida are under a Tornado Watch due to the impending arrival of our first hurricane (already Lord?) of the season. I’ve wanted to call the Camp up to see if any campers cancelled from this week and how the camp itself was faring under the worsening conditions. The Camp being north of us will receive stronger storms than we will here in beautiful West Cocoa.

I can say that despite the efforts of the men that I described as “Assassins” in a previous post, God was at work during our week. I’m still convinced that if Pat Pugh had been at our week, the response would have been overwhelming. Pat just has that way with teens. We wish him well in the upcoming camp at Rochester College.

I can think of three things that were evidence of God working at our week:
1. There were 9 precious souls baptized into Christ during our week.
2. We had almost 160 campers, the most ever for our week.
3. The teens from our church (Central) truly acted in a Christ-like manner despite being disappointed by some Brothers who acted in an un-Godly way.

Side Bar for Elvis (commented on my “Assassins Post) if he is reading:
You mentioned something to the effect of if you were not a member of the Church of Christ and you had read my “Assassins Post,” you would avoid our fellowship or something to that effect.

First – I wouldn’t blame anyone with that kind of reaction. The way these men acted was un-Christ-like and boiled down to plain black-mail. However, I would add that as Tom (our Baptist Brother) kind of pointed out, this kind of un-scriptural (in light of Jesus’ words in Matthew) behavior unfortunately pervades many Christian fellowships, not just ours.

Second and to complete #3 –
Most Christian adults who would find themselves in the position our teens found themselves in, being disappointed in Pat being un-invited to our week of Camp, would have either cancelled from attending our week or would have blasted the Camp’s Director when they arrived at Camp. I’m happy that neither one happened.

First – We didn’t have a single teen cancel from coming to Camp.
Second – At the end of the week the Camp Director told me that to a teen, each of our teens had spoken to him saying that they were disappointed that Pat wasn’t at our week but they realized that he too had been black-mailed. They hugged him and told him that they loved him and the Camp. He told me that his faith in being a director of the Bible Camp had been re-newed.

And with that I’ll say that the future of our Restoration Movement will be in good hands if we adults we’ll just get out of their way and allow them to be Jesus to the world.

Thank you God for allowing me to catch a glimpse of our future.