Apologies Are In Order - Thursday, August 11th

Philbot here! I once again must apologize to you; I was absent and although I intended to get a substitute blogger to keep you company on here, I forgot to give said mystery writer the password for the blog... and so it did not get written. Or published. I am very sorry if you were looking for updates and there were none to be had!

This week has been simply flying by! As it is the last full week of summer camp, the staff is getting pretty tired so it is a huge blessing that the campers this week are so energetic! Their utter enthusiasm for Camp is not only encouraging to see, it also really fires the staff up to make it through this last final push of the summer. Most of the staff are headed back to college in a few weeks so they are enjoying trying to squeeze a ridiculous amount of fun into these fading summer days. I have said this a few times on this blog, but once again let me thank you for sharing your children with us this summer! We hope that our efforts have been able to draw them closer to Jesus, but know too that their undying love for their Savior does wonders to strengthen the staff's faith and draw us all closer to Him. Your children have been such a blessing to our faith!

Thursday's campfire had everyone in stitches! Everyone in Camp got a chance to watch the antics of Heiste Stealer as he realized he was accepted at Smugwarts, school of Stealcraft and Thievery. Turns out that Heiste's father was actually Lord Blorglamort - who would have guessed?! Be sure to ask your campers about the campfires this week as they return home on Saturday.

Can you see the double rainbow? The sky was on fire at Camp on Tuesday night!

Today's passage comes from I Corinthians 4:2 -

Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful.

Ben Ihlen gave devotion on Thursday, and he opened his devotion by pretending to not have prepared one. After a few awkward minutes he told us it was all to prove a point, because he actually DID have a devotion to give that evening. If Ben truly had forgotten to prepare a devotion for Thursday night, would program director Matthew Bown have trusted Ben with another devotion this summer? Most likely not. In the same way, God has entrusted us with an incredibly valuable thing - His Word! Because we have been given this trust, we have to prove faithful. The way we do this is by telling everyone who doesn't know about Jesus about how He lived, died, and rose again to save us from our sins. It's such fantastic news that it doesn't seem real all the time - but without a doubt, it is something we believe He did. Prove faithful because He loved you enough to invest in you and your eternal life. God loves you very much!

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