It is always exciting to see who you will reconnect with at CIY Summer Conference. Last night I was able to talk to Nathan Alcorn, one of interns from last summer, for about 30 minutes about his current internship at CCV and about what he is going to do after he graduates after this year. Nathan has a great heart and him and I are similar in many ways.
Abbey sat and talked tonight to the youth minister of Central Christian Church in Portales, NM, Josh McVey for long time after dinner. They had gone to Ozark Christian College at the same time and are actually friends on MySpace, but had no idea they would be here at conference. The first encounter was kinda like, " I know you," "Yeah, I know you too - Josh?".
Also, one of the other leaders of Christ's Church of the Valley, Luke Wright, was a bible college camp team member when Abbey and I were interns at Summer Conference 4 years ago. It just makes you think of who you meet today and the relationships you form, who knows when you will reconnect in the future.
Today during free time every church bolted for the beach, and so did our staff. We went to California Pizza Kitchen and Matt, Ben, Travis and I rode our bikes to beach from Chapman University. There is a great trail/mini road that runs for about 12 miles and dumps directly into Huntington Beach.
At the beach, CCV baptized a large number of kids and while this was going on, an amazing thing happened. A guy was walking by, he just graduated high school and was at the beach on vacation, he saw what was going on and ran out to the group and wanted to be baptized also. He has accepted Jesus into his heart, and for the last couple of months he knew he needed to be baptized, but did not know a pastor to do it. After the youth ministers talked to him, he was also baptized. What an amazing story.
During the night session, Dusty Frizzell delivered the sermon and it was a powerful site to see the students praying and erasing their own hurts and the hurts of others off the isolation booth walls.
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