3 reasons you will love Wayfarer Camp

3 reasons why we think you will love Wayfarer Camp:

*A teaching perspective that is Message-Centric in its delivery.

*3 Diverse Speakers ensuring all students will hear the message in a manner that suits them.

*A staff of teachers and writers with the Heart of a Teacher that will create curriculum designed to intertwine with the messages and that will facilitate discussions with the adult leaders as they prepare to minister to their students. 

Look at what others are saying about their experience last year at Wayfarer Camp:

“I know God really was working at Wayfarer Camp, and it left the youth questioning and experiencing camp in a life changing way. It was not a camp of spiritual highs that lead back to the lows. It was definitely life changing.”

-Ben, Adult Leader

Coming soon to Room 1228

In Room 1228, we’re celebrating the release of our two latest themes, God Is Not and Ruined. We’re thrilled to add these two new series to our catalog that now includes 10 themes.

But as we consider to build Room 1228, the Wayfarer creative team is always working on the next series. And on our website, you can get a sneak peek at the two series set for release in May.

So if you’re curious, click here and find out about Switcheroo and Interrogative – the next two upcoming series for Room 1228.

Collide on YouTube

The Collide team has started a YouTube channel that will house videos from Collide. The first post is the extended version of Chris Armfield’s discussion of Community through Conflict [+] and Purpose through Participation >>>.

If you’re looking for more ways to connect with the Collide community, check out our Facebook group or join the mailing list or subscribe to the podcast. This community is really starting to roll, and we can’t wait to be back together on Feb. 21 to start our first full series. Join the collision with us as we resemble Jesus together!

Norris off to Tennessee

Chad Norris is off to Oconee, Tennessee and Horns Creek Retreat to spend the weekend speaking to the senior high group from Fellowship Bible Church of Roswell, Georgia. The weekend’s theme is Enough, and the big idea is this: “If I’m not connected in intimacy with Father, I’m going to struggle in my personal relationships. Everything starts and ends with my connection to Abba.”

We’re excited to partner with Fellowship for this event, and we can’t wait to see them again at Wayfarer Camp this summer. For more info on the event, as well as podcasts of Norris’ talks, visit the event site. Please pray for Norris as he’s with this group this weekend.

Now available: The Collide podcast

As we continue to transition Engage into Collide, we’ve changed our podcast to feature messages from Collide. If you want to hear Dave Rhodes and Chris Armfield spell out the vision and values of Collide, click here to subscribe to the Collide podcast through iTunes. And if you want to join the Collide community, go to www.collide.cc to join the Collide Facebook group or join our mailing list.

Room 1228 presents Ruined

We all face difficulties and struggles and bumps in the road in our lives. But then there are moments that go beyond mere troubles and become tragedies. A hurricane or a tornado decimates a community. A death or divorce rocks a family. A firing or a foreclosure devastates a financial future. The trajectory of tragedy takes us to a place that leaves us ruined.

When we are ruined, we face unavoidable questions. What are we supposed to do when life crashes down around us in this way? Why does God allow His people to go through such pain and misery? Could God show us meaning during this kind of crisis in our lives?

Job was a character in the Bible who knew firsthand what it was like to be ruined, and yet he would answer this question with a yes. Job would even go one step furthe to tell us that we have opportunities when we are ruined that we will never have at any other time in our lives. The trajectory of Job,s life left him with a story that shows us that being ruined is not the end of our lives. Instead, the truth that God speaks is that even tragedy can lead us toward greater triumph.

This is the heartbeat of the Room 1228 theme Ruined. We’re excited to launch this theme that focuses on the story of Job to see what we can learn about the trajectory of tragedy in our own lives as well. This is an important theme that we trust will minister to many students and groups in tragic situations over the coming months and years.

To find out more about Ruined and Room 1228, go to www.room1228.com. You and your group won’t want to miss the chance to see how being Ruined can actually become the best worst day of your life.

What do you want in your camp experience?

Want a camp experience that not only encourages your students but equips them?

…..that not only recharges them but roots them?

…..that’s not just a good memory but a real spiritual marker?

Want a camp where theology meets real life?

…..where good talks intersect with genuine decisions?

…..where concepts get personal?

Want a camp that breeds honesty and evaluation?

……fosters vulnerability and dialogue?

….and creates opportunities where it all can happen?

Then we invite you to join us for a week of Wayfarer Camp at Anderson University in 2010.

Look at what others are saying about their experience last year at Wayfarer Camp:

“The worship times changed my view of worship. It made me realize that God doesn’t just want us to sing words we’ve heard all our lives; He wants our hearts to be wrapped around him.”

-Rachel, Student

Room 1228 presents God Is Not

Everyone has a burden. And for some of us, our burden is God. Questions like these can reveal just how heavy this burden can be…

Do you ever feel like you couldn’t live up to God’s expectations?
Do you ever feel like people who rebel against God are living life however they desire and getting away with it?
Do you ever feel like you’re going through life alone because God doesn’t make any difference in your life?
Do you ever feel like God’s not really worth talking about?

The burdens we feel fromquestions like these are heavy—but they are not burdens we need to carry. In fact, these burdens are created by our inaccurate and incomplete understanding of who God is. They make us feel like God is weighing us down. But God is not.

These burdens are why we want to spend four sessions exploring what God is not. This series is designed to help us question our ideas and assumptions about God so that we can let go of the burdensome pictures of God that are weighing us down.We need to cast off and strip away these burdens so that we can see God as He really is.

When we finally choose to honestly face tough questions about God—questions about whether God is careless, or clueless, or useless, or speechless—we discover that God is not burdensome. His yoke really is easy, and His burden really is light.We discover that, thankfully, there are many things that God is not.

This is the heartbeat of our new Room 1228 theme God Is Not. In this companion to our God Is theme, we focus on four statements from Scripture that tell us what God is not so that we can get a better picture of what God Is.

To find out more about God Is Not and Room 1228, go to www.room1228.com. You and your group won’t want to miss the chance to let go of burdens and experience our God as He really is.

Collide quote

Last night at Collide, Dave Rhodes led us through two more values of the Collide community:
Community through Conflict [+]
Purpose through Participation >>>

As Rhodes preached, he shared the following quote that we wanted to give you a chance to reflect on…

“Has it ever occurred to you that one hundred pianos all tuned to the same fork are automatically tuned to each other? They are of one accord by being tuned, not to each other, but to another standard to which each one must individually bow. So one hundred worshippers meeting together, each one looking away to Christ, are in heart nearer to each other than they could possibly be were they to become unity conscious and turn their eyes away from God to strive for closer fellowship.”
– A.W. Tozer, The Pursuit of God

Wayfarer at Southeast Conclave

Wayfarer’s David Reichley and Allen Kirkland are in Chattanooga, Tennessee, this weekend to talk with youth ministers attending the Southeast Conclave event in Chattanooga, Tennessee. They’ll be spreading the word about Room 1228 and Wayfarer Camp. And they’ll be giving away this unique money bouquet to people who join the Wayfarer email list.

If you’re headed to Chattanooga for Conclave, stop by the Wayfarer booth and see David and Allen. And if you’re not, follow David and Allen on Twitter to see and hear what’s happening all weekend long.

UPDATE: And here’s our winner, Len Knight, who was so excited he sprinted through the halls to claim his prize!