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From Robert's Desk

  Camp Is Coming

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Besides my job, one of the things that keeps me coming back to the Bible is – how shall I put it – the glorious weirdness of the story the Bible tells.
 For example, it’s not controversial to say that, among the four gospels about Jesus, the Gospel of John has the “highest” sense of who Jesus Christ is. John begins his gospel with a mysterious poem about the Word of God, the power through whom God created the universe.
 This Word, John sings, was with God and is God and gave life, light, and the opportunity for people to become children of God.
 This Word also, says John, happened to become flesh and blood in the Jesus whose story the rest of the gospel will tell.
 Yikes! Take all that however you will, but that is a pretty lofty sense of who Jesus is.
 But here is where the glorious weirdness really comes into play.
 The first words of John’s exalted, divine Jesus are not at all what I expect them to be. They’re downright weird, I think. Jesus’ first words are not an order or a demand for worship or a boast about his own glory. The first words of John’s elevated Jesus are a question.
 A few verses after the poem, two random guys who overheard their teacher call Jesus the Lamb of God, start trailing Jesus down the street. After a little bit, Jesus turns around and utters his first words in John’s Gospel. Jesus says to them, “What do you want?”​
​ That’s gloriously weird any way I take it.
 If I take it on a surface level, it’s weird because the first words of John’s divine, majestic Jesus are full of common, human annoyance. It’s almost like Jesus says, “Quit following me! What do you want?”
 Or, on a deeper level, the first words of John’s Big, Big Jesus form a profound question offered to people he just met on the street – What do you want?
 Sit with that a second and imagine it’s real.
 Imagine that the presence of God isn’t just interested in telling you what to do or getting you to sing God’s praises. Imagine that the presence of God is interested in knowing what is important deep down for…you.
 What do you want?
 That’s gloriously weird, a little terrifying, and wonderful all at once.
 What would you say to that question? It can be life-changing just to consider it.
 A few years ago, I was eating lunch alone in a restaurant in Nashville. I was reading a book written by a man I’d met a few days earlier. The book was about calling, about sensing how God leads us through life and asks us the “What do you want?” question.
 As I read, as I heard Jesus in all his glory asking me in that restaurant, “What do you want?” I started weeping. This wasn’t a single tear trickling down my right cheek. I was weeping. Openly. And it was not really from sadness. I wept because I sensed God caring about me, really asking me about what I really wanted deep, deep down.
 “What do you want?” the Word-of-God-Made-Flesh-and-Blood Jesus says to you there on the road. Or in the restaurant. Or…it could be anywhere, really.
 How do you respond?
​2019 GKC Camp Dates
Grandparents Camp I: 
Completed K-2nd grade + grandparents
May 25-27, 2019

Grandparents Camp 2: 
Completed K-2nd grade + grandparents
June 15-17, 2019

Grandparents Camp 3:
Completed K-2nd grade + grandparents
July 12-14, 2019

Day Camp I:
Completed K-2nd grade
May 31, 2019

Day Camp 2: 
Completed K-2nd grade
June 26, 2019

Day Camp 3: 
Completed K-2nd grade
July 6, 2019

Primary Camp: 
Completed 2nd-3rd grade
August 4-6, 2019

Junior Camp I: 
Completed 4-5th grade
June 15-18, 2019

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​Junior Camp 2: 
Completed 4-5th grade
July 9-12, 2019

Chi Rho Classic Camp: 
Completed 6-7th grade
August 4-8, 2019

Chi Rho Creative Camp: 
Completed 6-7th grade
July 5-9, 2019

Equestrian Camp 1 (High School): 
Completed 9-12th grade
June 15-18, 2019

Equestrian Camp 2 (Middle School): 
Completed 6-8th grade
August 7-10, 2019

Eighters Camp: 
Completed 8th grade
July 5-11, 2019

CYF Conference: 
Completed 9-12th grade
June 23-28, 2019

GKC Mission Week: 
Completed 9-12th grade
June 15-21, 2019
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