Tomorrow we begin the arrivals of our leadership.
Friday we caravan to our camp location to make final preparations and set up.
Saturday… they arrive.
One of the things I consider as I prepare for camp is remembering back to that very first moment. That second when you’re stepping off the plane, having committed to this insane journey (but not quite sure how you’re going to pay for it) ready to meet a bunch of strangers who claim to have been radically changed by this journey and wondering if it will have the same impact for you…
Questions drive this moment. Doubts, skepticism, excitement mingled with anxiety, optimism and realism battling it out.
And they haven’t even been truly overwhelmed yet…
150 racers just as overwhelmed as they are, 40 staff, 30 “past racers”, older married couples hanging around hugging your neck getting weepy as they thank God you made it… good grief, can you even imagine?
Trust is a fragile thing. Building trust is a process, and my goal as we look toward the launch of another training camp is how to earn trust (not assume it, earn it). Because when the time comes for the unveiling of the things I see as critically important to that mission, it will be presented as a life-changing challenge. This challenge will ask for the most vulnerable and sacred pieces of the heart to be given over to God, it will ask for a knife to be thrust into egos and agendas, and it will ask for relationship to be forged quickly and without back story or history.
Sometimes I marvel at our audacity… but it’s a method that’s changing a generation. I’ll keep you posted as we progress through our week. Be in prayer for our leaders as we begin training tomorrow!
