Camp Courageous 2010

For over ten years, our church has been offering a summer day camp for kids ages 5-12 called Camp Courageous. Our Children's Pastors Marty and Anna Hoey do a fantastic job hosting the camp with the help of dozens of volunteers. This summer, over 400 kids are enjoying the camp. This year's theme is "Toys!" Along with awesome chapel services every morning the kids get to go swimming, bowling, ice skating, to the movies (this year they're seeing Toy Story 3 - Do you see the theme reflected here?) and on Friday they get to enjoy a lot filled with fun jumps to play on!

My kids always enjoyed attending the camp when they were younger and for the last several years they have volunteered as junior leaders. All the camp staff and volunteers really go all out to promote team spirit and unity and hopefully this pic shows how enthusiastic my guys are about their team assignments. (Maybe you can tell Chase is on the Blue team!)

At Crossroads Church we believe in leading our kids into a personal relationship with God at the earliest age of accountability. Camp Courageous is just one of the ways God is using our church to impact kids for Christ in a powerful way! Thanks to all who make our ministry to children possible!

Greatest of all time?

            Michael Jordan                                                                                                        Kobe Bryant

Not even close - MJ is the greatest of all time! 

This ain't milk - go ahead and cry!

What a disaster! I am so torn over this whole situation. On the one hand I hate what this is doing environmentally. The effects it could have on our marsh, wildlife and seafood industry are staggering. I understand the argument that regulations have pushed drilling further and further offshore, but someone should have had a contingency plan for this! There are those who say the spill won't have a long lasting effect on the environment, that many are making a bigger deal out of it than it really is for the sake of their agendas. I hope they're right! 

The thing that bugs me so bad is our President placing a 6-month moratorium on drilling. Like that's going to help the situation! Talk about pouring salt into the wound! He has taken a tragedy and made it much worse. How many plane crashes have their been through the years, but they don't shut down the airline industry! The green agenda may be a noble cause, but right now the world needs crude oil and Louisiana needs jobs!

Please consider signing the petition found here:  

http://www.crt.state.la.us/GEST/petition.aspx

I think the best quote I've heard so far about this situation came from my friend Jimmy Malone. He said, "Let's put a 6-moth moratorium on the Federal Government!" I'm with you Jimmy!

Stone the Fornicating Teacher?

Faith in the public arena can be a difficult balance sometimes. A perfect example of this is the case reported in Florida today where a teacher who has been fired from a private Christian School is suing the school for discrimination. According to the article, Jarretta Hamilton went in and asked for maternity leave and the director of the school suggested they really couldn’t afford it. Later in the conversation, the director asked Hamilton, who has only been married for a matter of months, if she had conceived before getting married. When she admitted that she had, she was terminated for moral reasons (fornication).


Okay – wow! I believe as the head of a Christian organization, I have a right to hold my employees to a moral standard, but this is really a horrible mistake by this school! Yes it was immoral for the woman to have sex before marriage, but the couple got married and they’ve had the baby, so doesn't it seem pharisaical of the school to conveniently file moral charges against someone they obviously didn’t want to have to pay maternity leave to? This is the kind of thing that so often gives Christianity a bad name.


On the one hand, I hate the state is getting involved in a case like this because there are times when a Christian organization needs to act to protect the moral standards it’s trying to uphold but on the other hand this is not one of those cases and this should have never happened! If Jesus were down there is Florida I think he would have probably asked those school officials which one of them is sinless enough to cast the first stone!