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.