by John Carpenter | May 29, 2011 | Camp News, Events, Ministry News
Dear Staff Members,
You all have been in my prayers and I can’t wait to see what God is going to do in you and through you this summer as we minister together to the boys and girls He is going to send this way. Our camp theme this year is . . . “The Solid Rock” – based on the hymn. Thanks, Kendle, for the suggestion last summer.
Camp Del-Haven — Staff Training/Preparation Week
June 6-9 2011
Monday 2:00-Thursday 2:00
If you need to come earlier on Monday or stay later on Thursday, just let me know – it will be no problem at all. If you are in need of a ride just give me a call and we can make arrangements. We won’t have anything formal starting until 2:00 on Monday. If you cannot be here for the entire training/preparation session, please send me the times you will be here so I can schedule the important training during those times.
If you are unable to attend the staff training/preparation week but are still interested in helping this summer please contact me so we can work something out for a training session. Also, if you have not filled out an application please do so as soon as possible. If you are a returning staff member I just need the front page and the weeks you are attending. As always, we are still in need of male counselors. If you know anyone who may be interested (male or female), feel free to pass along this information.
Items to bring during staff week:
Bedding (sheets, pillow, sleeping bag or blanket) – we will be staying in the cabins this year
Clothes (may bring a jacket for cool evenings)
Bug spray/sunblock (if needed)
Personal Items
Towel
Swimsuit
Bible
Fishing gear (optional)
Anything else you may need or want
Ideas…Ideas…Ideas…Ideas…Ideas…Ideas
by John Carpenter | May 7, 2011 | Camp News, Ministry News
John Carpenter is untangling a volleyball net and helping to clear an area for a permanent volleyball court.
Dan and Joshua McElwain are getting ready to take down a couple of old utility poles that are no longer in use.
Marybeth and her son Caleb, spent the afternoon raking leaves.
Dan and Caleb are working together to get the old utility pole to fall in the right direction.
Work Days will continue every Saturday until the first week in June. If you or your church group are looking for a service opportunity contact us for more information.
by John Carpenter | May 4, 2011 | Camp News, Ministry News
Well, May certainly has come to pass as an interesting month. As far as the world is concerned — it marks the end of Bin Laden…and the word of God bares its truth: Pr.11:7-8 “In the death of a wicked man — shall perish his expectation — and the hope of the unjust shall be lost. The righteous is delivered out of trouble — and enters the wicked in his place.” But, as far as Del-Haven is concerned — we’re just one month away from the beginning of our 2011 camp season. There is still much work to do!
“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us — who can be against us!”
by John Carpenter | May 4, 2011 | Camp News, Ministry News
Please remember to pray for our staff as they prepare to minister the gospel to all the children that the Lord sends to camp this year. Also, pray for the children — that they come having been prepared by the Holy Spirit to hear and receive the gospel of the glory of Christ. As the world around us rages on in the ravages of sin and corruption — even so do we press on in proclaiming the gospel of grace. And, in the long run — in the end — the pure truth of the gospel will prevail! Praise God!
This is the month for the review of our note with the bank. Please pray that we continue to be favorably treated. They have thus far been very understanding of our position and track record — in spite of the condition of the economy and everything. May the Lord cause this to continue — so that we can continue — or, until we be able to free ourselves from this debt by paying it off completely — Praise His Name!
by John Carpenter | May 4, 2011 | Devotional
“Wherefore in all things it behooved Him to be made like unto His brethren — that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God — to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.” Heb.2:17
We cannot ever spend too much time meditating on Christ as our Substitute! It is in its truth — the holy glory of the gospel that we love. The debt that we owed — and were unable to pay — required of Him to become like unto us — in all things.
Sin stained everything about us. Nothing was left uncorrupted by it! Because of sin
— we are totally depraved — and in need of total deliverance. He.4:15 says that Jesus “…was in all points tempted like as we are — yet without sin.” His one life of sinless perfection — lived in a worldly environment of Satanic temptation — took the place of all our failures! And, this is precisely what it took for Him to be our Savior.
He had to sustain — no — He had to actually become — the curse of the law on our behalf. Gal.3:13 tells us that “Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law — [lit.] having become a curse for us.” Vs.14 goes to reveal that this had to done in order “…that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ — that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.” His being our Surety gave us access to the Holy Spirit — of faith to believe. Praise His Name!
He.9:11-12 says, “but Christ being come an High Priest of the good things to come — by a greater and more perfect Tabernacle — not made with hands — that is to say, not of this building [or, not of this creation] — neither by the blood of goats and calves — but by His own blood He entered in — once for all — into the holy place — having obtained eternal redemption for us.”
All these things — and more — He is to us — for us — so that He, Himself, can be qualified to be “…a merciful and faithful High Priest in things pertaining to God.” Whatever things God has demanded for our eternal deliverance — including death, which is the very wages of sin — Jesus has done it all — Jesus has paid it all! We, who are His people — the sheep of His pasture — according to Eph.1:3 have been “blessed with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places — in Christ”– our heavenly High Priest. And, we hear His voice — and we follow Him — and He gives unto us eternal life — and we shall never, ever perish. Praise His Name! [Jn.10:27-28]
And finally, Jesus is made like unto us His brethren — His family — that He might be a merciful and faithful High Priest in the things pertaining unto God on our behalf -in order to make reconciliation for our sins. This word is actually — propitiation! He is Himself — before holy God — our approval for God’s acceptance! This means that He — our Substitute/High Priest — is the righteousness of God for us — apart from the law — and because of Him “we need no other argument, we need no other plea.”
For Christ’s Glory Only!
John Carpenter
