You might be wondering what’s happening this week at Wayfarer. Now that everyone has returned from Thanksgiving visits to Georgia and Virginia and Florida and Kentucky (along with some who stayed at home to be with family), we’re in full swing…

*Working on writing projects for WinShape Camps and the North American Mission Board in advance of December meetings and deadlines
*Talking to more and more churches about Wayfarer Camp 2009. We posted an update on some of the new churches who have signed up for camp this summer on our Facebook page last week, in case you’re interested. (And you can join the group while you’re there too!)
*Working with our friends at the Alabama Baptist State Board of Missions on the Youth Evangelism Conference in 2010 that we’re helping to program.
*Continuing to move forward on creating the next two series for Room 1228. (And if you want a sneak peek, follow Room 1228 on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook so that you can get links like this.)

We’ll give you more details on all of these things as we go forward. Thanks for keeping up with what’s happening at Wayfarer this week and every week.

You may have noticed the link in the top nav bar for the blog for Wayfarer’s speaking schedule. Over the past week, we’ve added several events for Wayfarer’s team of speakers – Dave Rhodes, Chad Norris, and Chris Brooks – for 2010. We’re thankful that their schedules are filling up, and we’re excited about the students and adults that they will get to preach to this year.

Check out the speaking schedule to see if Wayfarer’s team is coming to your area. And if you would like to inquire about bringing in a Wayfarer speaker for your event, you can use this form to do so.

Dave and Kim made it back from Haiti.  They had a great visit with their son Frankie.  You can catch up with their thoughts here and read about their last day. 

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.