Tri-County Work Camp

To anyone who reads this. I messed up.

The name of the work camp is "Tri-County Work Camp." Maybe it can become a tri-state event. We'll see.

Tri-state Work Camp

Awesome! Amazing! Fun! Spiritual! Fulfilling!.....You list a positive adjective and it would fit. The first annual Tri-state Work Camp was extremely successful. My personal thanks to Toney Stowers for putting everything together. All the planning, preparing, buying of materials, arranging work sites, food, and housing, and general leadership was provided by him. I can't begin to express my appreciation for his work. I love you, man.

We worked at individuals homes, the Faith Mission in Hurricane and the St. Albans Twin City Mission. Four work teams spent a full two days of work mowing, weeding gardens, weed eating, cleaning, painting, folding clothes, visiting, etc. I can't even list everything that was done.

We worshipped together in the morning, at lunch, and at night. What a unique experience for everyone involved. There were 51 teenagers from three congregations -- Hurricane, Kanawha City, and Cross Lanes. Maybe next year there will be more.

Most of all we began to see ourselves as one big youth group instead of three distinct groups. I only hope we can keep it that way. The "Jesus Effect" is that we are all one in him.

I can't wait until next year.

Simplicity!

“For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day

according to the Scriptures.”

I Corinthians 15:3-4

From Max Lucado…

The computer age has given rise to a new breed of geniuses -- techies. The problem is, they don’t always know how to tell us what they do. They spout terms like megabytes, software, and hard drive. Our response is, “Huh?”
Long before computers had techies, the church had theologians. Again the problem is, they don’t always know how to tell us what they do. They spout terms like predestination, sanctification, and propitiation. Our response? We tilt our heads and say, “What?”

Don’t you wish we understood the simplicity of the Gospel of Jesus? Paul in I Corinthians gives us the “skinny” on the Gospel. It is the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus. When we understand that, then we will be able to connect with the world about the need for a Savior.

What if we all decided to simply share Jesus with those around us? Not the church, the L0rd’s supper, our stand on women, instruments, orphan homes, etc. Just Jesus.

Would it change the way people see us, the church, the Lord’s Supper, orphan homes, instruments, etc.? I believe it would. This week try to share only Jesus and his Gospel and see what happens. It may even change you. I know it changed me.