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.