From our friends at WinShape camps

Our friends at WinShape camps want to invite you to join them this summer! Here are all the details. For more info, go to www.winshapecamps.org.

Dave and Kim off to Haiti

If you’ve been following the Wayfarer Blog over the past year or so, you’ve read about how Dave and Kim Rhodes are in the process of adopting a boy named Frankie from Haiti. The Rhodes family is about a year into the process, and today is a big day because Dave and Kim are headed to Haiti to visit with Frankie this weekend. This is Kim’s second trip to visit Frankie since the family decided to adopt him, and it is Dave’s first opportunity to meet his son.

We’re excited for the Rhodes family getting to love on Frankie in person this week, and we can’t wait to have Frankie here as part of our Wayfarer family.

You can follow the Rhodes’ adoption journey on their blog A Family for Frankie. They had some great news about the process moving forward last week that you can read more about there.

Please pray for Dave and Kim, and their daughters Emma and Izzie back in S.C., during their trip this weekend.

Wayfarer Camp team on the road today

The Wayfarer Camp team is headed to Columbia, S.C., today to visit with youth ministers and pastors who are attended the South Carolina Baptist Convention. Our camp hosts from Anderson University were gracious in inviting us to join them there to promote our two sessions of camp June 7-10 and June 21-24.

We’re excited about the momentum that’s behind Wayfarer Camp right now, and we’re praying for more good conversations today in Columbia. And if you want to have a conversation about camp with us, visit www.wayfarercamp.com or call 877.929.2453.

Wayfarer Camp Promo Packs

This week, the 14 churches that have registered for one of the two sessions of Wayfarer Camp 2010 at Anderson University will receive packages to help them promote camp among their groups. And we thought our blog readers might enjoy a sneak peek inside these promo packs.

If you and your group want to register for Wayfarer Camp 2010, either for the June 7-10 session or the June 21-24 session, let us know! Go to www.wayfarercamp.com for more info or call 877.929.2453. We’d love to get you registered so we can send a promo pack your way!

Rhodes off to Brentwood

Dave Rhodes is headed to Brentwood, Tennessee, today to speak at Brentwood Baptist Church’s Disciple Now. Wayfarer has provided speakers for Brentwood Baptist student ministry events since 2005, and we’re excited to partner with them again this weekend.

Brooks off to Johnson Ferry

Chris Brooks of the Wayfarer speaking team heads over to Marietta, Georgia, today to begin a Disciple Now at Johnson Ferry Baptist Church. Wayfarer has partnered with Johnson Ferry’s student ministry since 2006, so we’re thankful to be able to spend another year with this great church.

Room 1228 presents Flirt

We love to flirt – to show interest, to try something new, to attract something better, and to imagine what could be. We flirt when we entertain ideas or possibilities or relationships with other people without really committing. We even flirt with God sometimes – living in the air and the opportunity between Him and us.

But does God flirt with us? You might not think so at first. But when we begin to look at Jesus after the resurrection, we see Him showing up and then quickly disappearing. He reveals pieces of who He is without spelling out systematic ideas. In many ways, He flirts.

In this series, we’ll look at four of these flirty moments from Jesus’ life. As we see these moments play out, we will find ourselves flirting with things like joy, passion, surprise, and mission. So now, in these flirty moments, let us seek to discover how the heart of Jesus reaches into the air and opportunity between God and us.

This is the heartbeat of the Room 1228 theme Flirt. We’re excited to launch this theme that focuses on four post-resurrection appearances of Christ and discovers what they say in the air and opportunity between God and us.

To find out more about Flirt and Room 1228, go to www.room1228.com. You and your group won’t want to miss the chance to flirt in the air and opportunity between God and us with Room 1228.

Room 1228 presents On the Verge

Is it an indefinable place where the present and future collide?

OR…

Is it the point just before the point of no return?

Is it the moment you realize that what you do next matters most?

OR…

Is it the culmination of collected experiences that caution you to avoid pain at all cost?

Did you choose it?

OR…

Did it choose you?

Regardless of where it is, what it looks like, or when it happens, we have all been there. In fact, some of us are there right now – on the verge. So let us stand on our tiptoes and boldly speak into the chasm of what is and what could be.

This is the heartbeat of the Room 1228 theme On the Verge. We’re excited that we’ve been able to recast our 2009 Wayfarer Camp theme into a brand-new theme in Room 1228.

To find out more about On the Verge and Room 1228, go to www.room1228.com. You and your group won’t want to miss the chance to leap from the verge via Room 1228.

Interact with Room 1228

Did you know that there are a ridiculous number of ways that you can interact with Room 1228 and find out what’s going on? Here are just a few…

*Become a fan of Room 1228 on Facebook
*Follow Room 1228 on Twitter
*Join the Room 1228 mailing list by creating a free account
*Send a question to the Room 1228 team
*Check out the Room 1228 category here on the blog

We’ll be releasing two new themes from Room 1228 next week, so make sure to find your favorite way to keep up with Room 1228 so that you get all the details!

Lobby makeover

We’ve made over Wayfarer’s lobby to feature art of our Room 1228 series and pictures from Wayfarer Camp. Take a look at what people now see when they walk into Wayfarer!