Feel the heat!!

I can already begin to feel the heat of summer!! Not literally, but in the sense of busyness. We are only a little over a month away from Surge (our high school beach trip) and that takes tons of planning!! We started a couple of weeks ago getting the details together, but we still have a ways to go. There will probably be time set aside each day to plan and pray for Surge, it's gonna be AMAZING. This years theme is "Surrender by the bay" and we will be talking about surrendering EVERYTHING we are to God (Mark 12:30). The "bay" part comes from the place we will be staying. We will be surrounded on one side by a bay and the other side of the island is the Gulf! Surrender by the gulf just doesn't ring as well!! After Surge, we have middle school camp up in Pigeon Forge, Tn for a week and we are trying something different, so it should be pretty cool as well. Then the last week of July we head back to Memphis for REACH '08 our mission trip. We had an interest meeting this past Sunday and I am pumped about the students that are wanting to go. It was an incredible life-changing trip last year, and I am anticipating the same for this year. We have all this planned as well as several different events around the church for the students on Wednesday nights at AMP'd. We try to mix it up at AMP'd by doing different things throughout the summer, so I'm looking forward to that. While most ministries in the church slow down a little, student ministry hits on all cylinders and with all barrels blazing. I love it though, and can't imagine doing anything else, even when the "heat" is on!!

RUNning the Race,
Bholda