The Impact Blog

Impact 2015- "Abandoned" June 30, 2015 at 12:15am Public Friends Friends except Acquaintances Only Me Custom Close Friends Columbia, Tennessee Area See all lists... David Lipscomb High School Lipscomb University Family Acquaintances Go Back It still has not sunk in yet. What it's over? I woke up on Sunday after Impact thinking... "I should be going to Impact Central right?" I think the fact that Senior Impact flew by so fast, I really for the first time in a long time rolled away from the campus on Saturday in total denial. It reminded me a lot of how I felt leaving in 2008 "Day Of Reckoning". Just kind of ready to get home but not realizing how two weeks of my life could pass so fast.  I mowed the lawn, ran my miles, took a nap, then took the boys out for ice cream. All the while believing I would probably wake up at Impact the next morning. But let's go back a few months to get the whole story. Not sure the exact date, no c...

Remove Impact 2016 “Hyde” TODD N. LOYD · MONDAY, JUNE 27, 2016 Explaining Impact to someone who was not there....So there were 1,200 junior high students screaming at a Leprechaun who was tackled by Dora while trying to put election results in a blender that would determine who won between Mr. T and Bob Ross..... Well maybe that’s not what I should lead with... Selfish desire, it can change us, transform us. Are we allowing our desire shape us into another person? Or are we following the example of Christ. For over 100 years the story of Jekyll and Hyde has delighted generations. And at its core the story has always been about the heart’s true desire, be it darkness or light. 1:30am Friday night, only a couple of our security guys are out and about. I am riding my California Chariot all over campus desperately hanging on to Impact 2016. It’s really hard to explain that feeling of loneliness. That deep pit in your stomach, day after Christmas kind...

For years I have reflected, dissected and analyzed just about every aspect of Impact. That's what I do, who I am.  Call me crazy, I say passionate.  This is the camp that helped bolster  my spiritual  awakening back in 1995, it means enough to me, to do everything in my power to try and make it better every single year. I know God ultimately controls that, but I'm gonna do my "small" part. For years the most common question I am asked post Impact is "How did you rank this year?" I always say..."Not sure, I'll have to think about it."  The fact is, we all have different taste and the years you love may just be off years for me or the great years for me, may have not been stand out's for you. So what I tried to do in this blog is really dig deep into my analysis. Not because I have an unhealthy addiction to evaluation, although I do. But because I simply like remembering, writing, and ranking.  I have always simply ba...

For years I have reflected, dissected and analyzed just about every aspect of Impact. That's what I do, who I am.  Call me crazy, I say passionate.  This is the camp that helped bolster  my spiritual  awakening back in 1995, it means enough to me, to do everything in my power to try and make it better every single year. I know God ultimately controls that, but I'm gonna do my "small" part. For years the most common question I am asked post Impact is "How did you rank this year?" I always say..."Not sure, I'll have to think about it."  The fact is, we all have different taste and the years you love may just be off years for me or the great years for me, may have not been stand out's for you. So what I tried to do in this blog is really dig deep into my analysis. Not because I have an unhealthy addiction to evaluation, although I do. But because I simply like remembering, writing, and ranking.  I have always simply ba...

Impact 2012 "Stranger Than Fiction" June 25, 2012 at 10:54pm Public Friends Friends except Acquaintances Only Me Custom Close Friends Columbia, Tennessee Area See all lists... David Lipscomb High School Lipscomb University Family Acquaintances Go Back I walked out of Alumni auditorium not realizing that it would be our last hurrah. The last great Impact in that sea foam green building. It was June 2006 and Impact was about to change. No one saw it coming. When it was decided that Impact would be moving to Allen, I was a little depressed. I am certain that today's Impact campers cannot possibly understand just how attached we all were to that old building. The one thought that I had was..."I sure am glad we ended with a good one." But what I did not know was that we were far from done with “The Story”. Fast forward to a hot June Friday night at Impact 2012..... Jeremy Swindle is belting out "Stronger", 2,000 people are singing at the to...