value: love!

Love!
We represent Christ.
In everything we do, we seek to be a community that serves one another,
driven by our whole-hearted love for God and self-giving love for one another
(Matthew 22:37-39).

"How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!" (1 John 3:1).

The Bible is full of descriptions of what love is: for example, 1 Corinthians 13 or the entire book of 1 John. Matthew 22:37-39, the verse above that simply and completely describes why love is one of our values, says: "Jesus replied, 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: love your neighbour as yourself'." It doesn't get clearer than that, does it?

As for the why, it comes back to one of the first memory verses I ever learned, in Pioneer Girls, was 1 John 4:19, which explains that "we love because he first loved us."

Everything that we do here at Camp Evergreen should be marked by love. We don't always succeed, because we're humans! But we are always striving to be people who are defined by the love that we show to our guests, to our campers, and to one another on staff. We want our actions, our words and our motivations to be marked by love for God and by love for one another ... because God first loved us! Practically, that's how love-as-a-value plays out: in our actions, our words and our motivations.


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