"But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves." - James 1:22

Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Wilds Day 2 Update

I am going to call this the Tylenol Tuesday update. This is the day that my muscles boldly ask the question, "Why have you not used me for a year?" I am a little sore today but it has been such a good one. Again, great weather all day. We had a couple of little short showers. They were not anything  that hindered any activities.

Tuesday is an action packed day. There is very little "down-time".  We have moved from one location to another trying to catch all of our teens in their activities. We enjoyed a quality chapel today with the teens then immediately hoofed it up to our sponsor session where Ken spoke. I will highlight those two messages in a few.

Scotty and I did take time out today to enjoy a new attraction here at The Wilds. Today was the only day that sponsors were allowed to ride the new Zip Line over Third Falls. For those who don't know. The Wilds have four spectacular waterfalls on their property. Pictures and words can not do them justice. For many many years, only First Falls, Second Falls and Fourth Falls were accessible to campers. The Third Falls have never been seen by any campers. The reason is Third Falls is inaccessible due to the rugged steep terrain. The Wilds built a new observation deck that overlooks the Third Falls and have installed a sophisticated zip line. You can now zip line above the Third Falls literally traveling directly 200ft above it. Views and vistas are amazing!!! We had a great time doing this activity. Thank God for good engineers! I was expecting to see a lot of steel and re-enforcements but much like the "Big Swing", it is made from what looks like light poles. I guess they knew what they were doing because here I sit explaining it.

We caught just about all teens as they were enjoying free time this afternoon. This is a great time for each teen to group up and simply do the things they enjoy or become really adventurous and tackle one of the big scary attractions.

We used new technology this year. We trialed it for just a short time this afternoon. It seemed to go well. We are going to organize a time where we can get more of the teens together. This afternoon, we simply wanted to make sure it would work. If you would like to see us at camp "live" you must download the free "Periscope" app. It is owned by Twitter and works alongside with twitter. Check it out if you would like to. We had some great pictures of today's activities and we hope you all enjoyed them. We are trying to get pics of everyone. It is hard to catch everyone sometimes because of the different schedules and it is simply hard to find everyone in the large crowds. 

Scotty & Amanda attended the JBC (Junior Boot Camp) evening service tonight along with Neil & Christy. Scotty mentioned it was focused from Proverbs 4:23. Mark emphasized the importance of protecting their hearts. Both of our junior ladies are doing wonderfully. I went and visited them for a short time this afternoon during their free time and they were ALL smiles.

Teen Chapel service was teaching the teens that Christians are to have an  influence on the world. We are the salt and the light. If we have lost our savor then we are just bland we don't taste good. As Christians, if we have lost out savor, we are simply worldly. We are also the light of the world. As you all know, our world is really dark right now. We as Christians need to let our light shine because light "exposes". 

The sponsor message with Ken was simply rich. I could mention several things about how he biblically expounded on The Wild's mission statement. But, instead I am going to mention one thing that stood out to me. He listed God's Mission.....God is on a mission to redeem and restore fallen people to the likeness of His Son to the praise of His glory.

Tonight's focused on having us make Christ our All-in-All. We all need to cultivate a passionate pursuit of Jesus Christ. We need to work and study to find out who Jesus really is. Our commitment to Jesus is to be intentional. We must always be killing sin, or the sin will kill you.

There is so much more I could mention about each service. But remember God speaks to each of us differently through the preached word. If one of the others were typing this update, I am sure they would mention other things, other points, other declarations that hit home with them. 

Use the updates to ask your teens what the messages said to them. Use the updates to help them remember which service it was and let them expound on what God told them.

Nighty - Night

Wilds Day 1 & 2 Pictures

Here are just a few pictures from the first 2 days of Camp, there will be plenty more for the slide show on Sunday night as well as here on the blog through out the week:  Click on the pics for larger view!







 


Camp Wilds Day 1 Recap

"Thank You Lord, for who You are and what You do for us each day. Thank You for loving us and saving us. Thank You for safety in travel and beautiful weather today. Thank You for allowing us another week at The Wilds."

God certainly has blessed us with a great day. The weather up here has been perfect. It was slightly over cast, cool with a cool breeze. We just got out of this evening's service as I write this. It is 10:56. When we walked out of the activity center is just started to rain a little. Staff has told us that it was extremely hot last week so we are looking good for this week.

We have seen everyone and all are doing well. Everyone seemed very tired after tonight's service. It has been a long day. My eyes are crossing as I type now. It's going to be a short update.

Will Galkin is the speaker this week. I'm not sure if I am spelling his last name correctly though. He laid a baseline message tonight speaking on how God's glory is revealed in His creation. The love of the Lord is perfect, it is flawless and God always gets it right.

He left us with three prayers that we all need to pray tonight.
1. Pray our secrets sins will be revealed. These are the sins that we don't even realize we are committing ourselves.
2. Pray we are protected from our presumptuous sins. Don't let them have dominion over you.
3. Pray the words of our mouths and hearts be pleasing to you.

Looking forward to a great day in the Lord tomorrow!

Good night all.