Back in my day we had NINE planets!

This is Jonathan, the music pastor at the church in Spokane and worship leader for this week at camp. He's an incredible guitar player, has twice the energy anyone old enough to be bald should have and works great with the kids he's assembled into the band. My topic for the week is Imago Dei and he wrote a song incorporating what I've been teaching them. Great song!

This is what I did this afternoon. They had a special day of games on the theme of the Middle Ages and these are the catapults. They're launching water balloons from the four catapults (two off to the right) at the targets out on the field - kiddy pools full of water. I took more pics of the catapults because I see church picnic possibilities here.

Tonight for dinner they'll all dress in costumes of the period (they knew the theme before they came) and will do medieval-themed stuff afterward. Then I speak at the campfire late tonight. A final session tomorrow morning and then HOME! My flight gets in around 6:30 if I remember correctly.

Perfect weather for a week of camp in the northwest. Nothing but sun and temps in the upper 70's. In the morning it's down into the mid-50's and a layer of dew settles on everything. I'd forgotten about dew; doesn't happen in Phoenix.

If I were king of the world I'd get a baseball bat, probably aluminum, and go around to all of the parents who have acted stupidly and selfishly, and whose kids are paying the price for those actions, and smack them upside the head. It wouldn't knock any sense into them but it would get their attention. Then I'd tell them life isn't about them, and if they had the maturity of day-old bread they'd consider the impact of their actions on kids who will bear scars the rest of their lives.

Kids are a lot smarter know than they were when I was high school age. If someone had said "presuppositional apologetics" to us we'd have either nodded off or run out of the room.

Jonathan builds and flies remote control planes and showed me some video of two of them in flight. He makes it look easy and I'm sure it isn't but it also looks fun. Maybe after I finish Ilsa and build that trailer I should build an RC plane.

I'm looking forward to being home. I'm not excited about the 110-degree temps after the warm sun and cool breezes of the PNW but I miss my wife and church.
Big stuff Sunday.