With an amazing summer coming to an end, I feel the need to write about the most important thing we, as a band, have learned from the experience of traveling together weeks and months at a time. It is our greatest adversary…patience.
So how do you hit the road with your best friends …the amazing musicians [...]
I was recently asked in an email for a list of the songs I used at camp. So I decided to list them for you here. These are the one I used at my three weeks of Church Camp, and two weeks of UM ARMY.
Amazing Grace/My Chains are Gone- Chris TomlinAwaken our Hearts- Russell MartinBig [...]
We are just now on the last full day of camp. I have been leading for the 6th and 7th graders this week and I have really enjoyed it. There are a few more things I have learned and Ideas that I have seen I’d like to pass on.
First… I was kind of worried on [...]
11 For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope.
This week begins three weeks of my life spent at Lakeview Church Camp. For the past 12 or so years I have spent atleast one week [...]
When it comes to packing clothes for camp it is good to try and anticipate a few things. 1 What type of activities are going on? 2. What is the weather SUPPOSED to be like? 3. How long will you be away? Why are each of these questions important?
1. Activities- I went to a camp [...]
Camp is stressful, the kids are loud and rambunctious, and it seems like you are always running from one place to another. The best thing you can do for yourself is to get rest. This applies to everyone from directors, to music people, to counselors and even campers. The camp I still go to [...]
Over the past 10 years I have spent many weeks at summer camp leading music for various groups. Also I have spent many weeks on mission trips with the various churches I have worked in. In all those years, and all those camps there are some things I have learned. Some I have learned [...]
Tomorrow I will be heading of for the first of my many weeks of the summer away from home. I will be spending 7 days with college students from around Texas as they work to repair homes in the Houston area. We will call Pasadena FUMC home, will sleep on cots, share meals and work [...]
“Lord Let Your Love” was written one summer while I was leading worship at Lakeview Methodist Church Camp. Many of the groups I was with would head down to the lake for a morning devotional or would be in a place that didn’t have a way to get words up on a screen or even [...]
