Build It & I'll Come
New Playground @
Westminster Woods

I'm off for Occidental, CA to help build a new playground at Westminster Woods Camp & Conference. The Woods is a summer camp owned and facilitated by the Presbyterian Church. I went there as a kid. It's one of the main pilgrimage (still today) places in my life of faith. It's also the place where my wife and I met back when I was 17 and just out of high school. We still take our children - both genetic and church born - each summer for amazing times of spiritual discovery, personal growth and fun - fun - fun! Can you tell that I'm a fan?

Anyway they're building a new playground: a community effort. The Woods Community raised the necessary money. This non-profit designs the playground based on ideas solicited from kids at camp last summer (including the kids from Fruitvale Church)...and then it's a whole community build thing. Kind-a-like Field of Dreams but not in Iowa but Sonoma County, not in a cornfield but in a redwood forest, not in the sun but in the rain-rain-rain! Can't Wait!!!!! Plus it all ends Sunday with a dedication worship gathering time and then a free-for-all for all the kids to go and play on the p-ground!

Read more about the playground build on the Woods website HERE. It contains plans for the playground, color schemes and plans for the Creation Themed Mosaic Wall, and a way to donate (they sill need to raise about $5,000). Or you can sign up to come and volunteer from now through Sunday!

Watch the live-movie cam that's documenting the emergence of the new playground HERE.