Encounter Faith: “Give Thanks in All Circumstances”
Dear Camp Family, Happy Thanksgiving! We’ve been thinking and praying for you all, and as I wrote my own children in a message on Thanksgiving morning, I wanted to write to you as well. This morning I’ve been reading 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18. “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s…
Choose the Hard Right: Be Authentic
Dear Friends, Do you remember your very first day of camp? How many of you felt ok at home, but when you came to camp you instantly got nervous and wondered if you would fit in and find friends? Did you put your best face on and try hard to let everyone think you were…
Choose the Hard Right: Speak the Truth
The moment the words left his mouth, he felt their impact. A lie is a heavy thing, a blackhole created by our words that devastates the trust in our relationships with others. This lie came out quickly in a self-defensive way. This facade immediately felt weighty indeed. As he turned shoulder and walked out of…
Adventure: Love the Wild
I remember most the silence. Prayer flags and pennants floated from the stone houses around us–houses that seemed to have grown into the landscape itself. They were less like stones stacked one on another by human hands and more like crags in the cold and barren hillside, weathered and roughened by centuries. From that hilltop…
Adventure: Laugh Often
Paddlers have an additional gene. I wasn’t really aware of it growing up. I paddled at camp, but horses were my passion so I didn’t learn about this amazing phenomena. In November David and I were invited to join a fantastic group of people on a rafting trip in the Grand Canyon. A bunch of…
Adventure: An Invitation
“The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil. The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains — mountain-dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature’s work-shops.” – John Muir My…
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