Wow, today is the mid-point of our training camp.
Last night the racers spent the night out under the stars. They built their own shelters, dug their own latrines, cooked their own food over a fire and spent the night together. It was awesome!
Today we’re building teams. We don’t send racers out as individuals, we send them out in family units. Today and tomorrow we will do several rounds of experimental groupings so that we can arrive at the best possible combinations in which to send them out onto the World Race.
We are firm believers in community. The people around us become our greatest “mirrors”. People who grow to love you should desire your best. We reflect back who people are to them in an effort to help them realize their deepest potential. So we reflect back reality (in all it’s glorious mess) and reflect back the potential so people can grow.
It’s an awesome tool that God has given to us to refine us. It’s hard, it’s messy, it’s inconvenient, it’s time consuming and it demands everything. But we believe God is more interested in our character than our comfort.
So we engage in community even though it’s dangerous… because it’s the best way.
