For the Sake of the Gospel

By CBM National intern, Timmy Martens - As a CBM National intern, one of my responsibilities during my rotation at Camp Victory is to assist with Released Time (a ministry where we teach the Bible to school children during school hours: https://childrensbibleministries.net/camps/classes), which is something that I haven’t participated in actively since my senior year in high school. Thankful to have been given the opportunity to serve in Released Time once again, I read over my lesson and gave adequate preparation time in case I was asked to teach. Holding the ...

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God is the Creator

By CBM National intern, Timmy Martens I recently had the amazing privilege of working with some teenagers at a retreat hosted by CBM. These teenagers aren’t just your ordinary kids; they are children of CBM’s missionaries, and are stationed all over the country at different camps and areas. Before my intern days, this was the group that I was also classified with: camp “staff kids.” In the ministry world, staff kids are a one-of-a-kind breed. We know what it’s like to have super high expectations on us, and we have a lot of hands-on experience in everything ...

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CBM Intern: 8 Years of Perfect Planning

By CBM National Intern: Timmy Martens In Jeremiah 29:11, God tells Jeremiah that He has plans for him. Good plans. Though I know this verse is a promise to Jeremiah, I know that God has plans for my life, too. Ephesians 2:10 tells me that I am His workmanship, created to do good works that He has prepared beforehand. I often wonder what His plan would look like if written down on paper. Unfortunately, such a document doesn’t exist, but I can clearly see what God has already done. 1994 That was the year I was born. In St. Petersburg, Florida is where I spent my ...

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