Is It Waterproof?

That's what Josh and Lydia asked me a hundred times when we got to Camp Meeting. [Which is something that happens in our church tribe once every year. Adventists from all over Ohio gather in Mount Vernon, Ohio on the campus of Mount Vernon Academy -- a private Christian boarding school open to anyone -- for a week of literal "camping" and "meeting."] It's spiritually encouraging. And usually lots of fun.

This year, the kids and I went down on a WED and stayed through SUN. They went to their meetings. Roasted smores. And came happily screaming down the hill with a herd of other kids at the end of the day. I talked about prayer in the Youth Dept and happily dropped them off at the beginning of mine!!!

We rendezvoused in the cafeteria. And stayed in a blue tent we rented with beds on a cement slab floor on a hill overlooking the air conditioned gymnasium. In previous years, we had camped out in a tent but were chased into the dormitories by severe thunderstorms. Lydia's pillow that year was literally floating out the zipper door on top of 2 inches of water!!!

Which is why they wanted to know for sure that this year this large blue commercial tent provided for us by those more knowledgeable than I, was waterproof. I told them it is. But to be honest, I have no idea!!! It was sunny and warm all week!!! Maybe we'll find out for sure next year!!!