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For some the idea of a hundred plus men
at a Camp filled with team building activities, musically flat
Worship and a speaker, would induce nightmares and cold sweats. I
must admit this is how I felt. I'm all about men understanding who
they are in Jesus but is it really necessary to go away on a camp to
do it.
The answer I can now tell you with
gladness: Yes
Men's camp fills me with hope.
As a youth worker, I see families all the time, and unfortunately
many of them aren't the former stereotypes of 2 parent and 2.5 kids.
I see boys growing up without fathers and men becoming men without
the apprenticeship that the that family relationship offers. Yet at
Men's camp I see Men praying for teenagers, building friendships with
teenager and worshipping (generally off key) with teenagers. These
relationships, affect lives.
Men's camp fills me with dreams. I
look at Men and decide I want to be like that, I want a faith and a
heart like that. I want to love like that and I want to stop eating
takeaways so i don't become that. Dreams of the kind of father,
grandfather and husband I one day aspire to become. How will I treat
the young punks who invade my Men's camp? With the same grace offered
me? I hope so.
Finally Men's camp fills me with faith.
I am totally inspired by the teaching, the reflection of the father
heart of God. Inspired and renewed because I am away from home with
one goal, fellowshiping with men as we fellowship with our common
(shared, not ordinary) Father.
Tim Cleary
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