West Coast Living

It's been a busy few weeks!  The week before last  I was the chaplain at the diocesan surf camp ("Board Spirituality") which is held out here.  We camped at Green Point Campground in the Park, which is right on Long Beach.  I was the chaplain for this camp last year as well.  It was nice to be camping so close to home - I forgot a few things and was able to just slip back and get them.  The camp was bigger than last year - 11 campers, and four junior leaders and four senior leaders.  Camping with teenagers can be a little stressful - Green Point has a bear problem, so it's important that campers don't leave anything out that smells or could attract bears.  We spent all week reminding the campers of this, and then on the last night, two of them threw their veggie burgers into the forest.  We made them get flashlights and go looking for the food!

This weekend was my induction at St. Columba.  This normally happens after a three month trial period, but because of a lot of different things (including the Bishop's schedule) it kept getting postponed.  It was a great day - sunny and warm, so worth waiting for.  The church was packed - it holds about 80, and I'm sure we had more than that in there.  The downside to the sunny weather was that the church was very hot - the windows don't open any more, and there's only one door, so not much air circulation.  We don't have a parish hall, so we used the Legion for a barbecue after (salmon, naturally).  The nice thing about using the Legion for a reception after a hot church service is that we made sure the bar would be open!

The Bishop always presides at induction services, and he was there in the morning too, so I made him take a selfie with me.

Jeff and Kirsten were up all weekend - they came up Thursday night and stayed for the service.  It was a great weekend - warm and sunny (mostly.  It's foggy most mornings here) and we spent our time surfing and hiking and playing Yahtzee and Crib.