3CA

No, I am not playing Battleship for those of you wondering about my blog title. I am attending the Christian Camping and Conference Association (get it? 3 C's and 1 A) Super Sectional Conference in Cour d'Alene, Idaho. I feel blessed to be in an amazing part of the country and glad Idaho greeted me with a dusting of snow after a 7 1/2 hour drive. I have been even more blessed by the worships, workshops, and wonderful contacts I have made these past three days. 
I know going to the meetings were suppose to focus on how to better our individual camps. But I took away an individual (personal) betterment. First off, the speaker for the General Session, Bob Kraning, is in a nutshell a magnificent speaker. His life has been led by God and his dedication to His Work (meaning God's) is evident in his tone of voice and crackle of his throat as he gets chocked up talking about people that have touched his life. He talked on Proverbs and I won't get into details about why and how what he said touched me. I will just give you the titles of his messages and you can go from there, "Words Can Never Hurt Me! Oh Yaah?" and "Angry? Who's Angry? I'm Not Angry!" To learn more search in Proverbs chapters 12-29.
Mila Polevia (pronounced ME-LA) is the man who has been the Worship Leader, or as he says the Lead Worshiper. Which he encourages everyone to be as I learned in his seminar "Killing Worship: Identifying Dying Devotion." He calls us to be active participants in our worship 24/7 and not to "lead worship, but be the lead worshiper." We need to know WHY? Who Holds Your story, current job, life ministry, devotion, and worship. The easy answer is just to say God, the hard answer is us. The hard part is identifying how not to focus on us and in turn kill our worship with the automaticity of the same negative routine. The challenge is to turn negative words like routine, elementals, and proof into positives that can help improve our worship with God (both personal and at church). Mila gave us the tools and scriptures to be the Kings Knights. To learn to serve and worship our Lord with duty, honor, and loyalty. 
I bold these two men's names because if you don't know who they are you should. Plain and simple. 
I also found out tonight, Mila is Adventist.


P.S. a lot of the words I used to describe Mila seminar were his and some I paraphrased. Just so he doesn't try to sue me. lol