Filming the panhandler's perspective...




The driver's perspective...




Having fun...








Promo video coming soon...

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Special thanks to Grant Blomdahl, James Calkins, and Jordan Cools who made this possible.

A writer for Oregon's largest newspaper visited Camp Jonah and wrote a little blurb about what H2O's involvement is at camp this summer. Check it out here.

Only three more weeks of camp. The summer has been going so fast. Each week I've been helping campers fill H2O bags, sharing with them how God has worked through H2O, and challenging them to do hard things for the glory of God.

So far this summer, over $300 has been raised for the Portland Rescue Mission, in order to help homeless people in a more direct way. Not only that, but many campers have donated items for the Rescue Mission. It's been neat watching campers from ages 5 to 17 open their hearts to love on the hurting people living on the streets.

Along with doing H2O at camp, I've been doing a lot of music. It's precious hearing children's voices raised towards heaven, screaming out how great God is.

This week at Camp Jonah, we were blessed to have a lady from Shepherd's Door come share her testimony of living on the streets and then finding hope from the mission. Her story was amazing, and the campers asked her many questions about being homeless. It was hard for the 4-6th graders to grasp that she didn't celebrate her birthdays, didn't have any friends, didn't go to school, and was cold and scared at night, while being homeless. But by the time we finished, they seemed to understand. Many of them chose to give leftover snack shack money to bless and help other homeless men, women, and kids find a home. Little kids have big hearts!

It's the middle of the second week of camp. Last week, I had a great time investing in campers, sharing our story of starting H2O, and challenging them to start living sold out for Jesus. We filled bags right after I spoke, and I think campers had a good time and understood what it was for.

Our new promo video helped a lot at camp too. One scene in the movie is of a homeless person taking off his dirty, holey socks before going to bed. I heard campers murmur to each other, "Ooh...that's gross!" They got it.

Tonight, I'm speaking again. This time to young campers in elementary school. It will be a challenge making what I say exciting and understandable for them, so please pray for wisdom in how to best explain what H2O is all about. And pray also that God stirs in their hearts a desire to love Him more.

God's doing a work here! It's exciting to be a part of it.