random pics

I look at God's work and see beauty....incredible, delicious beauty.

I look at you and I see something more beautiful then anything I have ever seen. I see a person made in God's very, own image! Let's look at each other and see Him.

last nite

Conestoga, Collingswood & some unknown fellow believers

We are one, tonight!And we're singing it out!We are one, tonight!And we're dreaming out loud!

music

This week is another concert, a rock concert.....I love music.....most of us do.

This year I have seen a lot of live music...I make it a point too. Music inspires.....creates....and allows our emotions to become apparent. Music is a form of communication and expression.

Friday nite is a concert.....Switchfoot and Reliant K.....I love Switchfoot....they rock and their lyrics are cool. They also crossover to mainstream.......yup, both bands are deemed Christian.
I am not one for LABELS, but there is no denying.....these folks believe in Jesus Christ.

anyway...I am about 10 minutes outside of center city Philly and my exquisite wife will be there to pick me up off the Amtrak train and it is just about 9:00 PM on Monday nite......

I am rockin' outta here!

peace.

tater

last weekend

NOTHING

Camp.
What I miss is the "nothing" of camp.

Camp Manatawny----doing nothing, but having a GREAT time!

Plotting "pranks" that are not pranks,but are!
Breakfast-Lunch-Dinner
Flag raising
LIFE 101------Camp is as close to the Garden of Eden as I may ever get.

No AGENDA
just Christ= LOVE
isn't that camp?
miss it?
I do!!!
walking back from campfire-----just strolling along----time has no meaning.
I MISS CAMP!
I MISS CAMP!!
I MISS CAMP!!!

life here in the "world".....it's not what He wanted.
life here in school-work-leisure
it's not life........................it's the world....the world is not our home.
HEAVEN is HOME.
live it.

connect---disconnect

connection.......coming together
disconnect......coming apart
today I am bothered by some information passed my way.
turns out that some people did not agree with some other people and they chose to forgo an event when they really didn't know what the event was about.

I heard this quote on tv last nite and it wasn't on a sitcom:

"You can't lead people if you don't love people,

you can't save people if you don't serve people."

so my dilemma is: how do I approach these people? how do I get them on my page....that's what I've been thinking, BUT the question s/b how do I get on their page???? How do I see what they see. Nope this post has no inherent bearing on camp.....it has to do with my church.

so I need to step down and think/pray about how to approach this group of people and how to best serve them.

Credit where credit is due- The quote above is from an interesting cat---Cornel West who is some type of professor @ Princeton.

y'all should know my quote by now----love to love & give to give

peace

camp changes people

Tattoos

If I ever got a tattoo it would probably be this:

My dear brothers, take note of this:

Everyone should be quick to listen,

slow to speak and slow to become angry,

From the book of James.

Camp right now

Right this very second as I type these letters I sit @ Camp Manatawny....it is 10:22 PM on Sat 9/29 and the moon which was full this past Wed is waning.

There is a church here ----having a retreat...I really don't know anyone from this church (I know it's kinda odd that I don't know anyone).

My lovely wife, Margaret the beautiful one had voluntered to cook for camp a few times this fall and she asked me to be her helper, to which I forwent the Harding Leadership conference to serve here @ camp....

Hmmmmmm......Leadership Conference or serving others?

Anyway....We got here about 9:30 PM Fri nite and woke-up @ 5:30 AM to get in the kitchen and start cooking for the groups.

Folks, let me tell you.....cooking at camp is no joke.....serious labor....we started in the kitchen about 5:50 AM and got done @ 8:00 PM.
Thank goodness for Alex and Caleb two youth volunteers to clean the trays!

Cooking for 90+ people @ camp has it's trials....pots and pans are serious work....as is prepping potatoe's for breakfast and lunch...potatoe, potatoe, potatoe.....too many potatoes!


BUT HERE'S MY POINT---AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE.
I am at Camp Manatawny and it is NOT camp....it's not the same! The land is NOT what makes Camp so very, very, very special!! It's YOU who makes camp special....it is down right boring here without you!!

Yeah, yeah the weather is nice and the sky is as beautiful as any Manatawny sky I have seen before, but it is just not ever really camp unless the people are here.

I miss you okay...each and everyone of you.
I don't miss camp.....I miss what we share at camp.
What we share @ camp is a unique bond of love brought together by Jesus Christ.

HOW CAN WE SHARE THAT OUTSIDE OF THE PROPERTY KNOWN AS CAMP?

one word----
do ya' know it?

Booster Dinner

on sat we will have the annual booster dinner.

a time to laugh---cry---and PRAISE GOD

join us, camp never ever disappoints......just like God!

WAKE-UP!!

The time to wake-up o'sleeper is now-----

What have you done for others today....or should we say what will you do for others today?

Today is the 1st day of September, 2007. It is the only 9/1/07 that was ever made and will ever be. It is an opportunity waiting for you to GRAB and take hold of. There are people out in the world awaiting your love....they are waiting to hear and see the truth from someone.....will it be you that gives the truth?

Make the choice, today to see others as He sees them.....look at all that way.

go out and serve

go out and love

go out and....

BE THE DIFFERENCE!

Full Moon

the moon is full....

the moon reflects the sun....

who do you reflect?

S Y G

Stand Your Ground
.
October 20th @ Manatawny

Featuring...............
Better Way

speaker Adam Ellis

Without Excuse

musical guests

www.syg07.com

Register Now

bring friends

what i miss...

what i miss are the people at camp....the "life" of camp and how camp just seems to be right. scurrying back to the cabin at nite and the laughter and joy of camp. hearing everyone talking and loving each other. face it....if you are reading this you would probably live at camp if given the opportunity.

flag raising

group prayers

baptisms

showers

swim time

slushies

nite time devotionals

garrett hall singing

going from here to there and back again

campfire

peace

serenity

love

Jesus

(add yours)

Hey Pickles!!!

I need an email addy for you!

Mine is tate1963@gmail.com

email me there

Camp Sessions 2007

It's official. Camp Manatawny's camping sessions are over for 2007.

Didja have a good time?

Was it everything you hoped for?

What are you waiting for???????????

Go ahead....DEFINE camp.

My definition is Christ.

Camp is Jesus Christ.

Jesus is love,

and that fellow camper is Camp Manatawny

I have asked you in the past to bring Manatawny into the world....yeah I know, the world doesn't cooperate...just so you know it never has and it never will at least not until Christ comes again and calls us home.

Be love, show love, give love go ahead get hurt if you do it...He did

Love is so important

what we need to do is love without wanting anything in return

get to know the unloved

seek them out

they are everywhere

go ahead and IMPACT the world

you are doing so in His name

the name above all names

Camp this year as always was everything and more then I could have dreamed of. It was hello and good-bye. It was people taking leaps of faith to Christ.

It was love and that's why I love camp

God is great!

I just put a post on the other blog spot http://ourcampweek.blogspot.com/ , this is where we have Intermediate II post LIVE during our camp week.
Feel free to check there it should be a BLAST!!

HEAT!

Garrett Hall

This is the hottest fire I have ever experienced.

when my youngest son was turning 13 two men from church who's boys were also turning 13 and my son and I all went to camp in the absolute dead of winter to tell our boys that they were men.

It was 12 degrees outside that Friday nite @ camp.

We slept by this fire in Garrett Hall...the six of us.

It kept us warm.

When we woke up Sat to a fresh coating of snow we departed the warmth of Garrett Hall to Hawk Mountain to hike up the icey rocks.

Everytime the boys were given a choice of the easier road or the narrow more difficult road they took the narrow road.

We had to crawl over the ice strewn boulders and face the wind of the wind of the mountain.

Later that nite, at Garrett Hall we cooked steak and potatoes and watched Dances with Wolves

an experience we will all never forget

Camp is an experience

Camp is special...but why?

1. People pray about camp all the time!

2. Whenever people are at camp they are very Christ-like

Do those two things about work and school

(pray and be Christ-like)

think about this....why do you want other people to know God

when you figure that out----go tell them about Him

MORE CAMP

I can't wait for Int.2. it should be a blast. can't wait to see everyone who works or goes there at camp. Keep God First. in HIM, Brett Hower

Registration @ camp
Took this a couple of weeks ago....coupla guys finishing their week on a Sat. You know they had a good time. Camp is a good time, what makes it that way is God.

OPPORTUNITY

Opportunity----When it present's itself....TAKE IT!

Urgency-----Today is today and tomorrow may not come.....regrets?

Jesus-----the way, the truth, the light

LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE-LOVE

QOTM (question of the moment)

So here we are....smack dab in the middle of July! Hot, hot, hot!!!! Today's question...hmmmm, let me think.....Alrighty we are not going to make this an ez one.....this is not for just anyone to answer, but for the thinkers to figure out.
We are not going to ask what your favorite cabin was or your favorite meal is.

We are going to ask-----
----drum roll please----

If you could change ONE thing about camp....what would it be?

SYG Goooooo!!!!!!!!!1

for some reason there are no directions up on the manatawny website for SYS so here are some directions and information:2007 Summer Youth Series will be hosted by the West Chester Church of Christ. Speaker: Shaun Dutile from the Brunswick Church of Christ. More details are to come and they will be added here and on www.manatawny.org and www.youthadvance.com. Please plan to come it will be a great night of hanging out, games, food, and worship. This is a free event. Spread the word!!!!!!!!!Directions to Oakbourne Park:From South: Take 202 North until you get to Pleasant Grove Rd. (by theWesttown Police Building and St. Maxmillian Church). Take a right ontoPleasant Grove Rd. Go about 2 miles to stop sign at Concord Rd. and turnleft. Go past entrance to Gaudienza House and take the next left into thepark.From North: Take 202 South to left turn at S. Matlack St. stoplight (byKellys Sport's & Fed Ex buildings.) Follow to Concord Rd. and bear right.Park entrance is on right.The actual address is: 1014 S. Concord RoadWest Chester, PA 19382

How Great is our God?

I will not give in to the masses. I will travel the narrow road where Jesus Christ is. Will you travel with me? Camp is awesome because EVERYBODY is FOCUSED on Him. God is good....all the time....

Are you ready for the joy of the Lord? What does the world have to offer you? Jesus offers you LIFE. A life worth living to it's fullest. Look at people, see them, listen to them, hear them.....let the love of the Lord shine out from you like a BEACON of light that is blinding.
The world offers me nothing compared to what Christ offers me. He gives me eternal life and joy that is incomparable to anything here. Will you join me?
Will you travel the narrow road? Will you admit that Jesus is the son of God and was buried and rose from the DEAD?

It isn't easy to agree to....or is it?

What are you going to do with your life.....what will/can you possibly do with your life...think with me....you can make a difference, Jesus loved all, loved the sinner, loved the poor and the hurting...think...can you love them? Will you SHOW them love? Seek Him out...look for God.....LOOK for Him and YOU will find Him...He is right there. Humble yourself....

and then you will see

Camp Sounds

the sounds at Camp are amazing. They are different. The singing, the water as someone goes under and starts a new life, and the sniffles you hear on saturday at the closing ceremony. Camp is a special place. All the sounds you hear mean something. Sometimes you just have to listen.

people

I am constantly determining my purpose and I keep coming back to one thing.
PEOPLE. Nothing is more important then loving one another. How will people know who you are unless you show love?

Everyone and I do mean everyone has extreme value....

What can be more valuable then each other and showing each other that love?

Do that and you are putting action to your faith.
Love like Christ....
People---ALL people.....every single person be they homeless, rich, poor or sick....every single solitary one of them has extreme value....Jesus died for all.

people

people

people

see them like He sees them

Jr.High 2

Hi everyone! I just got back from a week of Camp and I Am PUMPED! It was one of the best if not the best I've been to. Our signing was incredible. Matt Wilson was an amazing song leader and campfire leader. We had 7 baptisms. I'm ready for more. Andrew Cooper said Camp was a great mountain top experience. I agree.

With love, Brett Hower

Camp Needs

Hello All,

Each night this year at camp the kids (and any interested adults) will have a chance to check out some planets, constellations and maybe even an International Space Station sighting. We could really use several telescopes so one scope can be set up on each observable body so there won't be a lot of standing around time. If anyone has a telescope or access to one, please contact me so we can coordinate its use at camp this year.

Love,

Tony

A good friend of mine emailed me this request and I figured I would post his request to the bloggers. He is attending Inter II from 8/4-8/11. If you can help out post a comment and I will put you both in touch!

100,000+ people squeeze in the narrow gate

Creation Festival

about 10 of us from southern nj are making the trek to the creation festival. it's four days of christians partying with like-minded bands and speakers.

I have found, in life, that the more I surround myself with people striving to be like Jesus...the more it rubs off on me.

it's so easy to not involve yourself. sin, or not looking for God around you is simple. I've concluded that's why Jesus calls it a narrow gate, not many go through the narrow gate. Travel with me....please, through the narrow gate. At Creation festival there will be 100,000 plus people squeezing through the narrow gate. Spread the love. Christ is Love, Jesus is Love, God loves you. Be love.



as a complete aside....we have invited people to post on the blog other then myself. it should juice it up a bit. let us know what you think.

What an awesome God we serve!

If you want to see some awesome sights God has made, go to http://hubblesite.org/gallery/album/galaxy_collection/ . Its amazing.

!!!!!Camp Starts!!!!!

The 1st day of camp! Yowza! It doens't get any better, does it?
One of the accomplishments of CMAA. New basketball poles, rims, backboards and the obligatory Camp Manatawny Indian Chief!

What will we do in the future? Well the bathhouses are not a pretty investment like the Low Ropes course or the basketball nets and we do need a new playground, but a new bathhouse facility with some bunking capabilities will help camp out a lot. Matthew 21:19 Seeing a fig tree by the road, he went up to it but found nothing on it except leaves. Then he said to it, "May you never bear fruit again!" Immediately the tree withered. Now it can certainly be argued that camp, like the fig tree needs to bear fruit in the form of people. I believe we do that well. Building a new bathhouse or a new playground allows the Camp Manatawny experience to become even stronger and builds people. Camp like church is not a building or buildings. It is people.....people like you and me. Help us build camp and by doing that you are building people and then we ARE a fruitful fig tree.....amen!

FIRST LOOK

Camp Manatawny

The closest place to heaven I've ever experienced

CAMP MANATAWNY

sessions start saturday

Matthew 10:42

Alrighty campers...time to get SERIOUS!

The homeless.
How do we see them. Pity? Disgust?
I ask you.....WWJD?
How does God see them?
If you smile at them, they will smile back.
They are more likely to say God bless you then anyone else I talk with.
More people will take pity on the dog then the man.
And what does Matthew 10:42 say and how does it apply here?
How do you handle them...refusal to give $$$, give food instead or just ignorance. Or do you just give them money? What do they do with the money if you give it to them, does it matter?
Jesus hung with the poor...the dirt poor. Is that the equivalent to a homeless person.

I see them almost daily and have had to answer many of the above questions.
Just think...think about it....think about them....they have names and they will bless you.

QOTM (question of the moment)

10 points to the winner

and 2 points to each person that tried!

...and this moments question is...

What am I?

First blog visitor to get it right automatically gets 10 points

ready, set, go!

encouragement

The Benjamites came out of Gibeah and cut down twenty-two thousand Israelites on the battlefield that day. But the men of Israel encouraged one another and again took up their positions where they had stationed themselves the first day. The Israelites went up and wept before the LORD until evening, and they inquired of the LORD. They said, "Shall we go up again to battle against the Benjamites, our brothers?" The LORD answered, "Go up against them."

If we all encouraged one another.

If we all loved one another.

If we all, looked at each other the way God looks at us all.

John Lennon (and I am a HUGE Beatles fan) said "imagine". God said LOVE.

Camp Songs

I remember so many songs @ camp.

Singing Someday as a staff song during Elementary I. It was the first time I had ever heard the song and when we (staff) would practice it would blow me away. When we sang it for the campers I had a hard time keeping a dry eye.

Singing Little Red Wagon during campfire. This is a cut loose song....'course it doesn't start out that way.

Hearing camp sing is the kind of thing you might forget about and once you do it again....it blows you away. We have taken many "camp" songs (really just new songs to us) back to the church and started singing them....Light the Fire~~Here I am to Worship to name a few.

When we first did Prince of Peace it was amazing. This was during Intermediate II a coupla years back....what a song. When camp gets this going it is amazing. Brings a BIG tear to my eyes no matter what.

Pretty soon camp will be singing again, in fact I think I hear it now....the voices singing together, to God. Bringing Him glory, letting Him be in them.

No matter your voice....bring it. God loves it.

In Cleveland, Ohio they have the house that rock built~~The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
Right here, right now....You are the house that God built....live it.

will camp be ready for YOU?

ask not what camp can do for you....but, what can you do for camp?

Pics taken last week on 5/23/2007

Wanna work @ camp???

If you are interested in working @ the canteen this summer please contact me asap.

Just drop an email addy in the comment section of this post.

We are looking for Saturday workers and people who can do candy runs @ Sam's club for sodas and candy.

Hope you can help!

Sunday

A day of rest.........

Saturday~~simple

God's word is simple.

Come like a child.

Love like a child.

Why worry?

Proverbs 25:21

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat;

And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink;

Jesus defined who a neighbor is in Luke chapter 10

If that is our neighbor, who is our enemy?

What if we loved EVERYONE the way He loves us?

Children have love, watch them.

fridays

Friday in camp is always the last full day of a camping session.

When Sat comes we are out of camp before we have a chance to even realize what happened.

If we knew on Fri afternoon what we knew on Sat would it be any different.

Would we have hugged more people?

Sat happens so fast

Why can't we think of loving more people on Fri??

Maybe because on Sat....camp is over!

OR it can mean camp is starting....

It just depends on YOUR perspective.

thursday~~~thanks

LORD

thank you for clean drinking water

thank you that i have never been hungry

thank you that my children have never been hungry

thank you that our children do not die from common diseases

LORD

i am a rich man

guide me, teach me,

O'LORD, to use my riches to help others

forgive me Father

use me LORD, to glorify you

thank you LORD for clean drinking water

thankyou

thank you for the food you bless me and my family with everyday

wednesday- WISH!

I am trying to post everyday this week.
Wishes....how often do we wish? Birthdays--when we blow out the candles we are supposed to wish. When you blow the fluff from a dandelion, you wish.
You are not supposed to tell your wishes.....here's mine....

I wish that everyone could love like Jesus. I see so many people everyday and most of them want to be good. Imagine the love of Jesus Christ---no really imagine it, He died, for us to live. Gave His life for you and me. Think about it....Him, dying on a cross for YOU....think about it....His arms and feet being nailed to wood....for YOU.
Really. He loves us. Now, can the world love like Him?
Maybe just maybe if we all stop being self-centered for a minute and worry about the person next to us, behind us and across from us....if we think about others 1st....then....maybe if we do that someone will see us doing that and do it too.
WOW!
Double WOW!!

If we act like Jesus....others may do the same and if all of the others in the world keep acting like Jesus then the next thing ya' know.....We are all in heaven.
Everybody together on this one----

WOW!

Tuesdays and TROUBLE

Remember the guys who left their fishing to go and be with God (Jesus). Who were they? Where they any different then you and me?

Jesus said; "Come follow me and I will make you fishers of men". I wrote a few posts ago about being leaders...Jesus wants us to follow. follow Him. Are we washing feet? Are we serving others? So here we are...working-studying-living a family life and are we fishing for men? Are we letting Jesus Christ shine out from us? When you are doing your daily life do people know who you are? Do they know what you believe? Are you steadfast in what you know to be true?

Everyday at work, work engulfs me and takes over for me. It becomes who I am, when I want who I am, to be Christ. STOP!!! I want to be like Him!!!

The bible tells us to pray for wisdom and pray for understanding for these are far more valuable then rubies ( have you seen beautiful rubies???). Pray for these things----Pray for wisdom and understanding.

ahhhh......wisdom

ahhhhh....understanding

what matters?

Mondays and PURPOSE

As we get up and out for this exciting day....what is our purpose?

When I am at camp and arise to the sound of basketballs dribbling on the court I am usually looking forward to a day of being filled with the Spirit and filling others with the Spirit.

It seems so easy to do at camp and difficult to do at home//school//work.

WHY??!!

It is actually very easy....Our purpose @ camp and in our normal daily world

ARE ONE and the SAME.

It's our attitude that gets in the way....

camp is easy, loving and nurturing.....

the daily lives we lead usually are not, they are of the world.

Our purpose is to change the world....fill it with Christ. Fill it with love!!

If we show Jesus, people will know and we will have fulfilled our purpose.

Have purpose.

Have Christ.

Show Him through love.

Enjoy the week....spring has sprung and camping sessions are around the corner!!!

On leadership....

...when you break trail, you need to push branches & rocks out of the way....the branches tend to have thorns and it is a fight to get through and make a new trail. People will question you as to what you are doing and where you are going. Listen to them....consider their words and adjust if needed, but regardless continue on in the main direction you are led to go....pull the thorns out and accept the loss of blood. Learn how to break the trail and learn to lead. Stay focused on what you know to be right and be sure to have integrity. Be authentic in who and what you are. Not everyone will stay with you and that's ok. The right path is the narrow one.

Enter through the narrow gate.

For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction,

and many enter through it.

Matthew 7:13

Friends @ camp are...

FRIENDS FOREVER!!

(including heaven)

Camping Sessions are coming

There are few things in life that I prepare way in advance for every year. Camp is one of them. We have started preparing for talent nite....actually we hope that the powers to be (directors) will go a step further and allow us an hour to perform on Friday nite.
As I travel the train to work this AM (PHI to WAS). I am again struggling with who I am am and my purpose. I truly try to inspire people in all walks every possible minute that I can and see our lives here as, but a mist and yet right now my job has time flying by at incredible speed.

Back to the music at hand--- I think we have a solid three songs we will be working on with maybe 2-3 more in the works. I am a music lover, but let me tell you....singing praises to God with or without an instrument is one of my favorite pastimes.
I recently started songleading @ my church and it is exhilarating...it took a while to get past the nervousness of singing, but all the while remembering that I was with family made it easier.
Some of my faves to sing:
Here I am to Worship
Shout to the Lord
Listen to Our Hearts
Step by Step
How Great Thou Art
Prince of Peace
I learned Prince of Peace from a pretty cool fella @ camp a few years ago; Monty Tuttle and family. When we geared up the kids to sing this it was some of the most beautiful singing ever.
It could bring a tear to your eye....all this being said let me add some scripture to your day:

And the blind and the lame came to Him in the temple, and He healed them.
But when the chief priests and the scribes saw the wonderful things that He had done, and the children who were shouting in the temple, "Hosanna to the Son of David," they became indignant and said to Him, "Do You hear what these children are saying?" And Jesus said to them, "Yes; have you never read, 'OUT OF THE MOUTH OF INFANTS AND NURSING BABIES YOU HAVE PREPARED PRAISE FOR YOURSELF'?"

Children GET God....become childlike with Him!

Authentic

What's REAL??

Look in my eyes and tell me....am I real?

The one whose name I don't like to mention ( think evil one) will look in your eyes and is real....but is also the King of Lies.

God is the King of Kings and is justice~~~God does not lie and is as real as it gets!!!

I look at so much and it is so fake---including people---be real out there---

Everyone wants something for nothing, don't let that be you. Work for what you want/have and give to all who have need. Don't judge when you give, but give with love.

Look around~~ the world is searching for the truth of life and it is right in front of them!
It's Jesus Christ whose name is so common that it is not respected and what does that tell you???

Yup, He's as real and authentic as it gets!

Be the truth~~ Be Jesus~~Right here, right now!

Stand apart

Rocky Balboa and the book of James

It ain't how hard you hit, its how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward! ... Rocky Balboa

Been thinking of some of my camp friends who are going through some tough times.

James said it this way: Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance.

The world is a HARSH place. Divorce--Sickness--Hurt--Pain--Death
But if you really, really, really, believe in God and that Jesus is His son, well, then, you can rest assured that He has prepared a place for you.

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.

That is heaven....the most beautiful place you can't even imagine.

God loves all of us so much despite our misgivings. Do not let man get in the way of God for you. Man's faults are the reason Jesus died. God loves you that much. Read His word and learn it for yourself and pray to Him.....do these things and YOU will start to SEE HIM.....

Sound crazy?
I don't think so.

the one thing that i know...

Arms nailed down, are you telling me something?

Eyes turned out, are you looking for someone?

This is the one thing, The one thing that I know.

Blood-stained brow, are you dying for nothing?

Flesh and blood, is it so elemental?

This is the one thing, The one thing that I know.

Blood-stained brow, He wasn't broken for nothing.

Arms nailed down, He didn't die for nothing.

This is the one thing,

I caught Jars of Clay last nite in Philly. Quite often dubbed as a Christian band. I like what the lead singer expressed to an interviewer once a little better then agreeing with the label of Christian music.

Dan Haseltine said: "our songs ... [are] not really there to explain our faith," but are "written about our life that is affected by our faith."

Shirt Update

Alrighty campers here is where we are:

Tye-Dye Green & White is @ 17 votes

Old School Green is @ 12

That being said I have found a source for shirts that is price friendly. So this looks like a go and the Cutts family will not have to become a tye-dye factory (they might be disappointed!).

Here is the concern:

The green and white tye dye shirt are not as fun and flashy as you might think. The green being used is more of a forest/hunter green (dark) and not really a fun happy green :(

I am thinking of pulling rank and ordering the common rainbow tye dyes....you know the over the top, insane, happy, fun, cheerful type :)

If you would like to weigh in on this thought process just "hit" comment.

If I, and whomever might weigh in, pull rank that means that we will have disillusioned the 29 souls who have thus far voted for either of the above choices....thoughts?

camp is cool

Camp is cool!

Why?

Because you can be yourself and yet you are loved.

Why?

Because the people at camp are trying to be like Jesus and love.

Why?

There are lots of reasons as to "why" we want to be like Jesus.

Lots and lots of academic reasons,

but the bottom line is.....

it just feels right

spring has sprung

Good AM campers!

It's a Sunday!

A day to worship Him
Sing to him
pray to Him

Pray...pray constantly, always talk to Him

Who by worrying can add one day or hour to their life?

Do the birds worry about being fed?

God loves us all so much.
His love is greater then ANYTHING we can even imagine
We cannot even comprehend Him

Do you realize that your home is not your home?
What will you do on earth that will matter?

Our home is with Him
Him who gives l ife eternally
Him who forgives,
loves without question

May your foundation be on the word of God
May you take this day and give it to God
Let others see the Holy Spirit in you

love to love

activities

Where do you start? Canoes, rifles, hay rides, horses, nuke-em, tether ball....the list goes on and on and on and on.....activites are awesome. I love 'em! I have watched campers catch their first fish and shoot their first rifle and ride a horse for the first time. Great stuff. I have witnessed some very, very intense tether ball games. Camp is people. People who have been made in the image of God~~~

WOW!

I love the activities and the land that camp sits on, but without you, made in His image, camp is nothing.