As usual, what an exhilarating experience at this year's
"Land of Lakes Workcamp" in Wheaton, Minnesota.
Here's the gist of it:
400 people - mainly teenagers in high school and early college - spend a week of summer sleeping in a school to get up every morning to work for several hours on houses in the community that need repairs.
Already apprehensive of the idea?
Let me tell you this:
It's not about the work.
It's about the amazing experience that binds strangers into close friends and feeling like you're making a difference.
The theme this year was "Love Out Loud."
How appropriate.
A brief soundtrack of my week for those of you interested in it:
We Win! - David Crowder Band
Come to the Cross - Michael W. Smith
The Show - Hawk Nelson
Take It All - Hillsong United
Among many others.
But those songs give me the feeling of being there.
Of not just existing, but living.
Together, I really feel like we brought new life to a tired community.
Made a difference.
Crew 31 ½, I love all of you guys very much.
I really feel like we were a family, if only just for a week.
My original intention of this was to write a fully detailed recount of all my experiences this past week.
But then I realized.
I could never harness the feeling and emotion at that camp.
If you were there, you understand it fully well.
And if you weren't, I hate to say it, but you wouldn't get it anyways.
1 comment:
That sounds like an awesome experience. I wish they had something like that around here, I know me and my friends would jump at that sort of opportunity.
And I'm glad I'm not the only one who can listen to a song and totally feel like I'm in a different place. I listed to Coldplay's CD X & Y while working at my dad's work every day...although that isn't the best example...it kind of ruined that CD for me lol.
Holy what a novel.
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