MMT S Carolina

As I mentioned before we had some scheduling mishaps for our second week, but everything is working out for the good. Jonathan Boulden knew some people in the area who directed to a Christian camp called Camp Marietta. The people at the camp are very nice and gave us a place to stay for a couple of days, and in return we are doing some maintenance for them. 

We arrived at camp Marietta late Saturday night, greeted the people, then hit the sack. The next day we went to the church of the people Jonathan knew. It was a larger church of about 500 people. However it was much different then most bigger/mega churches. It was three churches in the area that had combined together. So it had a very family/comunity feel to it. It is also the only church I have ever been to where the pastors were outside in the parking lot greeting people as the came in. They were very outreach focused and all about turnover. They did have a rock band, but since they were about turnover the band probably won't be there for long. 

After church we went out to eat with the family that Jonathan knew. While we were there Hunter Kindall invited showed up so we went to his house for the afternoon. That night we we divided and conquered. I took two guys and went to the Kindalls church and the rest went to Tim Cooks church; another friend of Jonathan's. 

Church I went to was pretty cool. It was what I would consider a true mega church. There were about 1,000 people there. They had a full orchestra and everyone wore their best clothes; suits and ties. There a few things I found very unique about this church, they sang from hymnals, the pastor spoke for a full hour and a half, and they didn't have a kids church. Just a nursery. Everyone else was in the service. Oh, and it didn't have a rock band. Which astounded me considering how how many young people were there. Afterwards we went to they college aged small group meeting; there were about 75 people there. But when they told us we going to go to the small group at someone's house, first I wasn't expecting that many people, and second I was expecting a lesson or discussion time of some sort, but there was neither. It was basically a party. When we got to the house, mansion, we ate some food, socialized a little the played games. They had pool, ping pong, foozball, and air hockey. It wasn't what I was expecting but it was fun.  

After the small group time we met up with everyone at the Cooks house where we visited for a while, then we went back to the camp and hit the sack. 

Today finds us working at the camp and as normally goes they underestimated what we were able to accomplish so we are out of work currently and it's only 10:30 A.M. But we shall see what happens.