Back to the Beginning
Though 2015 was the 7 th year of the Welsh based Middle Park Camp, it was for me personally a return to the beginning in so many ways. Way back in 1987 I had the privilege to serve at the Young Life Malibu Club in Canada as a work crew boss. My job, simple… to live my Christian life as a witness to the 50 young people sacrificing their summer to grow in Christ while providing the basic services necessary to operate the outreach camp for the 400+ leaders and kids that were there to experience the best week of their lives. How did this translate in real terms….. I washed dishes. Lots of them, 3 times a day for 4 weeks solid. Fast forward 28 years and after returning from an extended time in Africa, I found myself after setting up the camp back in our rural mid-Wales field doing the exact same thing, modelling servant leadership to a group of teens and some twenty somethings by washing dishes. I feel that within all of us there is a desire to push envelopes, dreams, dreams