Day 2 - Sunday

Day 2 of CIY Summer Conference California 1 for our staff consisted of setting up, more setting up, and finally finishing setting up. We have such a hard working team (interns and tech staff) and everyone knows their jobs, so everything gets done quickly.

Two of the churches arrived early for conference which officially begins on Monday. Christ's Church of Flagstaff arrived Sat night and spent Sunday at Knott's Berry Farm, America's 1st Theme Park. Supposedly this place is cooler that Disneyland. Probably because I have never lived out west, when I hear "Knott's Berry Farm" I think you will go and spend a day picking blueberries off bushes and then at the end you get some good jam/jelly. The other church, Christ's Church of the Valley, arrived shortly after lunch and played a game called "Campus Commando". This is a game designed to get the students familiar with the campus. They primarily are dressed in black, camo, and a few of them wear ski masks. Great idea, but when the same church played this game last year, they forgot to let the campus security know they were doing it, and you can just imagine the mess they created.

Our staff enjoyed In-n-out again and also went to The Block later that night.

That night for church, Kevin Greer, the director of the week, began by asking everyone the questions of "What is one thing you love? Who do you love? Who is one person in your life that has help you grow spiritually?" He talked about getting deeper with your walk and also said a quote from A.W. Tozer that went something like, "No matter whether you are spiritually deep or spiritually shallow, neither will stay hidden for very long." One of the things Kevin has asked our staff to do, is during every encounter time, that our staff would also take their personal quiet time also every morning. The meetings and our tasks can all happen after that. This is one of the first times our staff has been asked by the director to take the quiet time at the same time as the students. Kevin is an amazing teacher and truly cares about making disciples.