Impact: Firing on all Cylinders

 
Thanks for your patience this last week! We seem to need a couple days to rest once Impact wraps up before getting our Blog summary up. We always get to it but it does take some time to recover from this...

IMPACT!

This is our oldest camp of the summer. One of the reasons why we leave it to the end is because we typically empty our tanks for this one. Evening programming after chapel every night keeps up until midnight, sleep in breakfasts, giant wide games, and more give Impact a different kind of flavour.

We played a night game, had a late-night cookie ice cream bar down at the field, played our experiential game - Bible Smugglers where campers got a very, very small taste of what it's like to be a Christian working to shine God's light in a closed country, a night of extended worship, and finally - Homemade Jam.












We laughed a lot, played tons of games, and had amazing conversations. I think what makes Impact different than a lot of camps - other than the fact that we don't go to bed before 11:30pm - is how the students come wanting the deeper conversations rather than activities. It's much more common to see cabins during Cabin Time blocks sitting at the dock on the canoe pond or sitting at the creek watching the water flow by because they're good conversation spots.











These campers are living in a hard and confusing world right now and we love providing a place where they are able to ask hard questions and where our dedicated cabin leaders can lean into how God would have us live in this world.

Here are some of the testimonies from Impact:
  • I learned a lot about the Holy Spirit and you need to treat others how you want to be treated.
  • God doesn't just pick specific people to shine His light.
  • In the face of your greatest adversity, your greatest strength will come out.
  • Do unto others as you would do to you.
  • Love your neighbours no matter what.
  • I learned the true meaning of grace.
  • Even in the darkness, God is with me.
  • God has a plan and if can't see it, sometimes all we have to take is one step.
  • We are the light of the world.
  • I'm not alone.
  • You are loved no matter what you do.
You are LOVED no matter what you do. You are not alone. I think that if all of us were to take a moment to let those words sink into OUR hearts. God loves you no matter what you do. God is with you - ALWAYS. Such powerful, powerful truths.

Here is the song list from worship:
  • We are - Kari Jobe 
  • Filled With Your Glory - Starfield 
  • Happy Day - Tim Hughes 
  • Blessed Be Your Name - Matt Redman 
  • Take it All - Hillsong 
  • Alive - Hillsong My 
  • Redeemer Lives - Hillsong 
  • Pharaoh Pharaoh - Toby Sbrana 
  • Romans 16:19 - various artists

Extended Worship: 
  • How He Loves - David Crowder Band 
  • Revelation Song - Kari Jobe 
  • From The Inside Out - Hillsong 
  • It Is Well - Bethel Music 
  • Nothing But The Blood 
  • Come As You Are - Crowder 
  • Be Thou My Vision 
  • I Surrender - Hillsong 
  • Running in Circles - United Pursuit Band 
  • Doxology 
The URL for the video this week is: https://vimeopro.com/campevergreen/2017-impact 

It's hard to believe that youth camps are now done for 2017. We have one more Family Camp starting tonight and a Jr./Sr. High Retreat that is happening at the end of September. We are overwhelmed with how big and amazing our God is. Thank you to all of the staff, campers, families, and volunteers who made this summer what it was. Transformational.

Now...Go shine your light.

Much love,
Jogee

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