Falcon Camp

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Saturday we are all off to St Marks College in Saffron Walden to run our Falcon Camp.

About now I always start to feel that I do not want to go! It’s weird, if I’m going away from home for any length of time with young people it fills me with initial dread, even after 15 years in youth ministry! The weirder thing is that as soon as the event actually starts and we see young people I love it! So … at the moment I’m struggling with the idea of going!

We are running 2 camps, although Sarah, myself and the children are returning to Gillingham after Saffron Walden 1 to leave the rest of the team with the reinforcements of Joe and Sam to run Saffron Walden 2.

These camps excite me as we know the majority of the 30 young people we are taking in total. Not only will they have a great time but malcolm and the rest of the team will be able to follow up the challenge each day in September. many of those coming we have known for a while and they know us. This is such a great opportunity to show what ‘God living’ in a community is like.

We have deliberatly set a maximum of 15 young people for each camp to allow this community feel to develop over a short space of time.

I am expecting young people to be really challenged by what they see by living with us for 3 days. Please pray that we will all allow Jesus to show himself in whatever way he chooses. I am sure this is going to be an exciting time and certainly gives Malcolm and the team some really exciting stuff to be able to follow up in September.

4 thoughts on “Falcon Camp”

  1. Hello there! I don’t think you’ll remember me but I went to Access a few times (top event btw) back many aeons ago and I’m a friend of Flash’s although we haven’t met up for ages… and I went to Detling once… Anyway, Flash directed me to your blog and I really like it 🙂 I sympathise with the dread you feel… I love working with children but they always seem to run amuck and it gets worse as my sense of humour lessens… recently I’ve been putting off getting work with children. “I’m not good enough! I’m not funny enough! I’m not patient enough! I’m not humble enough! send someone else God, don’t send me!” so it was encouraging to read that you have that sense of dread occasionally too 🙂 Anyway God bless! love, Helen.

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  3. Hi Rob! I loved the story about the girl who thought about it all and then decided to go for it 🙂 You’re right that we don’t have to be perfect before we do things. I’m moving to Cambridge this coming year, hoping that the church I end up going to does work with children, then I can join in with that 🙂 If not, with any luck I’ll find something. I’m sure that Cambridge university runs a voluntary service organisation (my own university, York, certainly does 🙂 ) and I might be able to get involved with that. Other than that, remembering to pray and not let my nervousness get the better of me. God bless 🙂

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