Sunday

Robot Races - Friday, July 8th

Ahh yes. The end of the week. It has come once more, and once more I am very sad to see these awesome kids go home - can we just keep them here for the rest of the summer?

No?

Okay.... can't blame a robot for trying!

This week's Friday night Robot Convention was AWESOME! Not only was the food extra-tasty for some reason, but we got to play Robot Races with Justin Heise afterward! For this game, each cabin got a special mission and was sent to a different station somewhere on Camp property to attempt to win supplies that could be used to construct a robot. Some girls had to go to the Big Toy and collect different items from Camp like toilet paper headbands and berries. Some boys had to face the scary Wisco 3 basement and try to solve some riddles to win items. When all was said and done, the dust settled and the Sonshine campers had built some pretty nifty robots! It was an exciting way to cap off an already exciting week.

The cabins also did a really great job of not wasting food this week... so to reward the campers, Jason Schleef had to rub huge gobs of mustard and ranch dressing into his hair. 01111001 01110101 01100011 01101011 00001101 00001010 !!!!!!!!!!

For Friday, we focused on a great section of scripture from Titus 3:3-7. It's a bit of a longer section, but it's worth reading all the way through:

At one time we too were foolish, disobedient, deceived and enslaved by all kinds of passions and pleasures. We lived in malice and envy, being hated and hating one another. But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of his mercy. He saved us through the washing of rebirth and renewal by the Holy Spirit, whom he poured out on us generously through Jesus Christ our Savior, so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life.


The love of Jesus is truly amazing. I'm blessed to hear this saving message all day every day here at Camp Phillip, but when I stop and think about all the people in the world who don't know about what His love is capable of doing, it hurts my heart in this rusty chest of mine. So much of the world is shrouded in the darkness of unbelief; they're enslaved in the bondage of condemnation, and all it would take to lift them out of darkness into life is faith in the message that Jesus lived, died, and rose to save all people from sin. Because of this, we're HEIRS! We're not just warmly-thought-of acquaintances, no - we are written in the will. We're part of the family. And because of this, we can eagerly await the day when we will get to be with Jesus in heaven. We don't have to live in hatred, in malice, in envy! We can live in the light of His grace.

Campers, when you go home, encourage all your friends to spread this amazing message of God's love to everyone they know! And parents, see your children's zeal for the Lord and let the Holy Spirit encourage you too to jump refreshed into adamantly proclaiming God's love to the world.

He saved us - not by anything we can ever do, but simply by His love!

Thanks for a great week, everyone!

(Check out this song by Shawn McDonald called "Captivated" - God is amazing!)


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