CREATE IT

Imagine a long hallway with sunlight streaming in through floor to ceiling windows. A violin softly invites you to sit and meditate. A tranquil fountain gushes water atop a peaceful, still pond. Thirty children sit at tables meditating on God’s Scripture and painting their hearts in colorful offerings of worship. You have just stepped into “Create it!” You are at e-camp, yes.

We listen to Scripture read in a “lectio divina” style. Lectio divina (pronounced lex-ee-o dih-vee-nah) means a holy or sacred reading of Scripture. It begins with cultivating the ability to listen deeply to hear with the ear of our hearts. As we quiet down, we listen to the Word of God for the day. Today we heard 1 Chronicles 29:10-12

David praised the LORD in the presence of the whole assembly, saying, "Praise be to you, O LORD, God of our father Israel, from everlasting to everlasting. Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O LORD, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.

We listen for a word or phrase that God is speaking to us. Maybe He gives us a picture. We pray for Him to speak to us individually through His Holy Word. We begin to paint as an act of worship to offer to God our gifts and our adoration. We are Levitical priests tending to our souls – temples of the Living God!

What a privilege it is for me to get a front row seat in the holy of holies in the hearts of these precious children! I cannot imagine a more beautiful scene than children worshipping their Creator. Can you?

Do you find it hard to believe that your child can be quiet for 50 minutes and listen? Do you wonder how it is that a group of 30 children go from 100 miles per hour to zero in less than 3 minutes? Do you want to know a secret? They can do it! Know what else? It is beautiful!

Daily Notes - Honor GOD

Daily


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Honor 
GOD

Verse of the Day!
“Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and wealth, wisdom and strength, HONOR and glory and praise.”

Revelation 5:12

DON’T FORGET!

• Sign up for childcare with the names and ages of your children so you can attend the Parent Breakout on Family Worship in the Home in room LC219 of the Learning Center while your campers are at FWN warm-up.
• If your child is still hungry after they have finished their purchased lunch, please feel free to send additional food to go with it.
• Campers will be wearing denim shorts and their camp t-shirt for FWN. Thank you!
• Your camper received a CD yesterday of the music we will sing at FWN on Friday. Please be listening to these OFTEN!

Family Worship Night (FWN)!
We will be celebrating our fabulous week with a fun night of singing, dancing, drama, drumming, and psalm reading all to the glory of our King Jesus! And what’s a celebration without ICE CREAM! Please join us for an Ice Cream Social in the back barn immediately following Family Worship Night. Bring your favorite box of popsicles, ice cream sandwiches, or push pops to share along with your appetite for frozen treats and fun!

Grasp It!

What do you get when you put 120 kids, 30 plus adults, silly songs, drum sticks, pizza, bananas, games, chocolate milk, stones, pretzels, water bottles, popsicles, and BACON together? Day 1 of E-Camp!
What an amazing day of SEEKing after the one true God who created us to worship! I have the privilege of speaking to all campers during one of the morning break out sessions: Grasp It. David and Goliath are the subjects. Do you know how tall Goliath was? By the end of the week, your camper should be able to tell you.
We all have giants in our lives; the sins that so easily entangle us. Daily SEEKing God with our voices, eyes, minds, and hearts will protect us from those giants. The 5 smooth stones serve as a reminder that God has given us 31,103 verses in his word to use as our weapons. Memorize them and hide them in your heart to bring out in times of struggle. What an awesome tool God has given us to fight off our giants! The white stone is a reminder of the stone we will receive with a new name written on it that no one knows except the one who receives it. (Rev 2:17) I don’t know about you, but I can’t wait to get my new name!
The lions may grow weak and hungry but those who seek the Lord lack no good thing. Psalm 34:10.




by: Stacia Hudspith,
      e-Camp Leader
      Grasp It!

Daily Notes - Seek GOD

Daily
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Seek 
GOD

Verse of the Day! The lions may grow weak and hungry, but those who SEEK the Lord lack no good thing.

Psalm 34:10

DON’T FORGET! We will be taking a large group picture tomorrow with our camp t-shirts! Please send your child in denim shorts so we can have a uniform look for the photo. We will put their camp shirt on over the shirt they wear to camp. Campers will be wearing denim shorts and their camp t-shirt for Family Worship Night . Thank you! Family Worship Night (FWN)! While your children are warming up for Family Worship Night, please join us in room LC219 in the Learning Center for a Parent Break Out on Family Worship in the Home. There will be childcare provided for those who sign up! Then, we will be celebrating our fabulous week with a fun night of singing, dancing, drama, drumming, and psalm reading all to the glory of our King Jesus! And what’s a celebration without ICE CREAM! Please join us for an Ice Cream Social in the back barn immediately following Family Worship Night. Bring your favorite box of popsicles, ice cream sandwiches, or push pops to share along with your appetite for frozen treats and fun!

Good Morning e-campers! We are 8 days from the official start of e-camp and the anticipation is mounting!! We are SUPER excited to see what God has in store for each of you in this jam packed week of worship and praise! A few items for you and your parents to be aware of....

• We need your Registration Forms filled out and in our possession before the first day of camp. You can drop them by the church office this week, Tuesday-Friday.

• Our campers are being prayed for by name!

• e-camp has a group on facebook. Look us up and join. There are pictures posted from last year and we will post pictures and give updates their during e-camp 2010 as well!

• Please email us if you have any questions or concerns.... (or if you need us to send you the Registration Forms via email) ecamp@fbctn.org

Your statutes are the songs in the house of my pilgrimage. Psalm 119:54

SUMMER 2010

BIG NEWS.... BIG NEWS.... e-camp is back! e-camp dates are.... (drum roll, please...) June 7th-11th, 2010 Info and registration forms are coming ASAP. Come, let us worship our KING!

Re-entry

I need Jesus

I need Jesus

Your the only One who can help me

I need Jesus

I need Jesus

I need You to help me with my life

by:Hannah Morlan

My sweet 9 year old wrote this song while we were in Peru. She really had a hard time with worry and anxiety while we were away. She was encouraged to lay her fears at the feet of Jesus, and this song came out of that exercise. In the picture above, she is singing it for us the day we returned using her homemade microphone.

The words to her song have been the cry of my heart since our entry into the United States. The simplicity of her lyrics have met me in the deep dark places of re-entry...

I will continue to update the blog with the rest of our week in Peru. We were bombarded with exhaustion and sickness at the end of our week last week, so updates stopped and survival began. Now that we have been home several days and the fog is somewhat lifting, the desire to document what God did in Peru is rising up in me again!

Great and marvelous are Your works,

Oh Lord God, the Almighty;

Righteous and true are Your ways, King of nations!

Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify Your name?

For You alone are holy;

For all the nations will come and worship before You,

For Your righteous acts have been revealed!

Revelations 15:3-4