Fuge ‘07 : Belmont Steps Up, Fuge Falls Further Behind

June 12, 2007 @ 11:53 pm by Pressed

After yesterday’s fiasco I woke up this morning with the fire alarm still ringing down the hall.  The thing had been going off for over 13 hours straight and the security people just gave up on it and left us in the hall to suffer all night.  I went down to the office of the main Belmont University guy in charge.  We had a little chat about the mess and it was all corrected immediately.  He even showed up later that day just to check on everything himself.  He went out of his way to make sure everything was taken care of.

Fuge, however, is still in the process of frustrating me.  I can’t get over the video camera thing.  M-Fuge needs to stop using copyrighted material, make their own stuff and allow churches to film or they need to trust youth ministers enough to allow us to film just our kids and not the stage.  Eliminating the cameras all together is not the answer.

My other frustration is with the complete lack of any staff member to give me directions to a hospital.  One of my female sponsors had a bit of an accident and we needed to go to the emergency room immediately.  I went to find a Fuge staffer to get directions to a hospital.  I went through at least three different staffers who all had to refer to the camp director because they couldn’t give me the directions.  So we tried to contact the camp director who couldn’t be located at the time.  My sponsor had to wait 15 minutes with a possible broken arm before the M-Fuge staff could come help us get to the hospital.  That was frustrating to me.  It wasn’t really the camp directors fault.  I’m frustrated with the fact that Fuge staff couldn’t simply tell me where the hospital was…it’s something they should know.

My hurt sponsor is currently still at the hospital.  We are waiting on the x-rays to see if it is really broken.  It’ll be another late night for her.

The tracks went very well today.  Our teens are starting to have really good experiences as they begin to actually do ministry.  The music, preaching, & ministry aspects of Fuge remain to be the highlight of the trip.  As it should be.

**Update** My sponsor made it back to campus at about 2:00 a.m. She has fractured her right arm. We’ve called her husband to come pick her up. It leaves us a sponsor short on the girls side, but I think we will be fine.

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