New Wineskins

This weekend is a very highly anticipated weekend. It’s the Forward Camp. It’s a weekend filled with quiet time, journaling, and reflection for the students and for the rest of us. The theme is New Wineskins (a new creation). Everything we do or talk about on the weekend will lead towards becoming new.

I’m leading a session on Healing, using James 5:16 as the anchor: “Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you maybe healed…”
The students have so much grief and hurt inside that builds up. In order for them to become this new creation, without cracks and brokenness, healing must happen. In James, it says that healing comes through confessing in community and praying in community. It isn’t until it comes out and in the open that God can really prune it. We will have an open sharing time in order to achieve this. Lacey suggested a powerful symbolic activity to assist in this healing. She suggested taking rocks and writing on it what has hurt us and what is preventing us from healing. We will then throw these rocks and hurts into the river, releasing them for good. Then we will spend some time just praying for one another.

I’m very excited for this weekend and am trusting God to really work in all of us.

We’re there from Thursday to Sunday. I’ll try my best to let you all know how the camp went.

Please pray that the students will be touched in a special way. I know that many of them are feeling weary, disappointed, and beginning to lose hope. A lot of them have been through some significant challenges in the last little while and need renewal. We all need it.