On the Road

Saturday morning, I'll be loading up the church bus with 18 friends, and we'll be taking off for Charlottesville, Virginia. The trip goes like this:
Day 1 - Drive
Day 2 - Drive
Day 3 - Recover/orient/decompress
Day 4 - Work
Day 5 - Work
Day 6 - Work
Day 7 - Work
Day 8 - Work
Day 9 - Worship and Camp
Day 10 - Camp
Day 11 - Drive
Day 12 - Drive

It's an intense, focused, but really fun experience. My theory is that people can "hold themselves together" for 9, or maybe 10 days. But a 12 day trip? The real part of who a person "is" begins to show itself. We can get to some real stuff in that time.

So I'm looking forward to really getting to know some people, and really getting known. There is something powerful that happens in Christian community when people either let down their barriers, or else just become too exhausted to maintain them anymore.

That's one of the reasons I love these trips. I think that they are just about as close to what first century Christianity was like...maybe even the way God intends it.

A group of people (2 or 3 are all we need)
Living together
A focus on mission
Great attitudes
The hope that comes from Christ

Put it all together. It is church.

Pray for our journey. Please.