Is anybody else counting down the days until summer officially hits. May 22nd is graduation, and I imagine that there are a lot of students dying for summer vacation to begin. What will you be doing this summer? What about your friends from school? There are a lot of great things happening here at Pantano this summer from miniature golf tournaments to laser tag to summer camp at UCYC. But is this summer only about you, or will it be about how you can help your friends start to experience God (maybe for the first time)?

It is really easy to think about summer as “my summer vacation” and all the things “I want to do”. But is summer about us? While it is great to go out and have fun, it is also one of the best opportunities for us to invite others along to enjoy it with us. Start thinking about the person in your english class that you want to invite to a day trip and ride the water slides with - or consider the friends you each lunch with and imagine having an entire week to hang out with them at day camp playing games and learning about God together. You may be the only person in your friend’s life that loves God, so why not invite him or her to join you this summer.

There is a lot of pressure we put on ourselves to “save” other people - but that job belongs to God and God alone. Our job is to “plant seeds” and to give others an opportunity to see what God is like. So get out there and plant some seeds this summer, invite your friends and let God do the hard work!