…cedarcreek.tv fusion camp // day 3

Camp Michindoh has been good to me.

Last night, I wrote about an amazing experience I had at the main session. It touched me on a very deep level to watch these kids react to what was being presented to them, each in their own personal way. It humbled me to be in the position to capture these reactions on film.

Tonight, something that has been racing through my head, my heart, even as deep as my soul has been confirmed. I have never felt more like a filmmaker than I have these last few days.

Sure, I do a lot of cool videos for the weekend service. I am often in the position to record touching interviews, and thought provoking teaching videos. But I have never done anything like this before. I’m not contemplating a career shift or anything, I love what I do, but this has been an incredible change of pace. More than anything I could have ever hoped for.

Framing a shot just right, has never been so unimportant, yet important at the same time. In these sessions, it almost doesn’t matter where I point the camera. God is working so strongly in that room, I feel as if I am just along for the ride. Still, my foolish pride and perfectionism tells me I mustn’t waste a moment.

Tonight, I had to stop filming at one point to wipe a tear that had dropped from my eye onto the viewfinder as I filmed junior high students raising their hands in worship to the Lord with the song “Mighty to Save.” I laughed as they danced with joy while worshiping with the song “No One Like You.” I felt shivers up and down my spine while the band dropped out to the chorus of “Never Let Go,” and I watched students through a viewfinder with their eyes closed, arms raised, and singing these words like they meant it:

“Oh no, You never let go
Through the calm and through the storm
Oh no, You never let go
In every high and every low
Oh no, You never let go
Lord You never let go of me.”
I really wish I could share all these things I’m seeing with the world, but honestly I don’t know if I’m allowed, and even if I was, the internet connection here is so awful I couldn’t possibly upload a video.I believe God has truly answered the prayer for Him to show up here. There is no denying that. Now all we can do is continue to pray that the students will have the courage and the heart to hear Him.

*note — A thought just struck me as I picked out the tags (categories) for this post. As I selected the tag “work,” it hit me… “how incredibly blessed am I to do this for a living?”