Media: A Tool for Proclamation
Written by Billy Long
If you've ever asked yourself what it looks like to be the "Media Guy" at a summer camp, I can give you an idea: it's just a little crazy! We, as media guys, wear many hats, both during camp and in the off-season during the school year. We're out in the heat of the day snapping photos and taking videos of every activity; a job where everyone at camp sees you and everyone back home doesn't, since we're the ones behind the camera. We also do a ton behind the scenes! Editing photos and videos, running the slides for chapel and sound ...
Flexibility: Living on God’s Timetable
By Myles Morrison
I don’t know about you, but I like everything to be worked out ahead of time. Make things simpler and easier with planners, schedules, and alarms. Know where everything is and how everything is done; being able to have control. With these things, you can write out the rest of your life. Doesn’t that sound great?
I used to be at a point where I thought I had my life planned out. That was until I allowed this control to become pride. This led to suddenly losing everything, focusing on the negatives, feeling like a failure, and ...
What Does it Mean to Trust God?
By Dennis Farris
If you could run any kind of business, what would it be? Would you run a restaurant, a music store, or maybe a bakery? Maybe your business is successful, incredibly successful, and you make a ton of profit every day. Everyone loves your business, people are coming in from out of town to experience the quality and hard work you’ve put into all of it. You have a decent amount of savings built up and you have your next thirty years of life planned out. Suddenly, it happens. You feel that little nudge at your heart, a little prick at your ...
New Life’s Eve: A Summer Camp Holiday
By Nathaniel Miller
At New Life Camp, we greatly desire for campers to make decisions to follow Jesus. For some, that means repenting of their sin and trusting the good news that the life, death, and resurrection of Jesus can give them new hearts and lives. For others, it means responding to the teaching of the Bible and the Holy Spirit with a renewed commitment to their first love. Each week of summer camp is building toward Thursday, a day we call New Life’s Eve, a day where decisions like these can be made.
It begins with an explanation at ...
Three Reasons Why Long-Term Missions Can Never Be Replaced
By Joshua Paxton
In the high-tech and fast-passed world of today, we often find ourselves asking how can we accomplish things more quickly? How can we meet goals more quickly? How can we expand more quickly? Studies have shown that the current attention span of Generation Z is a mere 18 seconds. This is largely based on social media, in which a person will take an average of 18 seconds to decide if they are going to watch a video they see on Facebook.
“[Short-term missions] will never serve as an alternative to long-term investment in the ...
