BigStuf or BUST!!!

This is gonna be an awesome week!!! Usually on a Sunday I would write about what's in my iPod... but tomorrow there will be 8 hours worth of tunes rolling through my iPod. I'll be driving to Daytona Beach, FL with a van load of awesome high school students! Fun Times.

But, the rest of the week will be even better! We're going to THE GREATEST camp in the universe - BigStuf. Because it's literally "Big Stuff". They know how to do everything right. 

The camp was the creative genius of one of the funniest men on the planet = Lanny Donoho, a.k.a.  "Mr. BigStuf". He's on staff at North Point, but nobody is quite sure what he does. He's great

 friends with Jeff Foxworthy & I think he lives in the same neighborhood as Andy & Louie and claims to have taught them everything they know. Pretty cool. He is the massively popular Emcee at the Catalyst Conferences. He's the author of an awesome book = God's Blogs that you should check out today. AND a judge for the SCL Jesus Tattoo Contest! A very, VERY funny man! He's also commented on this blog at least once back in the early days...

This place is life changing for students! They do an amazing job! Lanny is the genius behind it but is also surrounded by talent. Last summer our speakers were Louie Giglio himself & Andy Stanley. This summer Andy is back along with Francis Chan (of recent 07/08 passion fame) and former NPCCr and current XP3 writer, Jared Herd. (+ Reggie Joiner always does some stellar breakout for the student pastors, etc... Reggie is a big orange, 252, XP3, reThinking kind of pimp!)

This year the theme for the week is "ONE THING" - so cool... Lanny asked each speaker "If you only had ONE more chance to talk to students, what would you say???" I can only imagine the sheer wisdom & passion that's going to roll off these guys' lips. I'll be taking notes for sure. I think everyone in the world would want their high school student exposed to this.

BigStuf worship is BIG as well. None other than Steve Fee (who I've told you about here) and Kristian Stanfill are the main worship leaders for the week. Straight from North Point and the touring circuit they come to lead worhsip for 5,000 students. pretty awesome. it gets pretty intense... just youtube it and see for yourself. Nothing in the world quite like 5,000 students shouting God's praise at the top of their lungs...

The productions are some of the best I've ever seen. Last year's theme was "Rhythm" and the opener for the whole week was those "Stomp" guys... it was pretty incredible. Like a 10 minute show doing some sick stuff on the trash cans & then they busted out some kind of circular saws and kept the same rhythm while going to town on the trash cans and shooting fireworks up in the air. Wish I could post a good video for you.

Jeff Foxworthy has been as a surprise speaker a couple times & I hope he shows up again this year. But, most of all I'm really looking forward to hanging out with these awesome high school students from Ridge and watching God do some really BIG STUF in all of our lives!

*This is what I'll be blogging about all week... what's going down with the crew from Ridge & what God is up to @ BigStuf in Daytona! Stay tuned for updates, pics, and maybe some videos. I'll leave you with a few for now...

here's the promo video

Here's Lanny as LUDACROUS from Fergie's video "Glamorous"... I told you he was hilarious...