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.