Today is the 30th
anniversary of EPCOT Center in Walt Disney World. For those of you who have never experienced
this place, it’s less like a theme park and more like the future. There are attractions, rides, etc., but more
importantly there is an ideal of what the future could look like through
progress, technology, communication, and togetherness. It really is a marvelous place!
The front half of the
park is populated with pavilions that celebrate all of the things that make the
world we now live in possible; things like innovation, energy, and
imagination. The back half of the park,
known as World Showcase, has pavilions that give idealized versions of various
countries and are staffed by people originally from those countries. The place feels like a vacation to the
future, and while much has changed over the last 30 years, there still remains the
golden dream of what the future holds.
My favorite place in
Epcot is Journey Into Imagination, a great pavilion originally populated by two
characters that have meant a lot to me over the years, Dreamfinder and his
dragon Figment. I remember going to
Epcot as a kid and taking home a Figment piggy bank, one that was used less as
a holding tank for coinage and more for a reminder of the power of imagination
in all that we do. I still have a
figment magnet in my office today. One
of the best things about my job is being able to combine creativity and
imagination with the Word of God and the way we work as a team to minister to
students. God is a creative God, and I
believe that as we look back through His Word we see a God that is pushing His
followers onward to a great future.
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