Springs Of Living Water

“Locks Of Love” Inspired by our last Youth Pastor, Mitch Thomas,  who past away after a battle with Leukemia.  One of our Youth, Cameron Fields decided to grow his hair our for Locks Of Love. After 2 years, and many comments about his hippie hair, it was finally time to cut his hair.

We turned this into a youth fundraiser.  Our church members put in bids to be one of the people to cut it.  During the church service 4 lucky winners got to take a swipe at Cameron’s hair.  It went over really well, and we raised $140!!  See the video here, lockoflove.wmv.

The locks of hair will be donated to http://www.locksoflove.org/

Greetings in Jesus Name. His Name is above all others. I hear Him speaking Peace to us in these days. In John 14:27 ” Peace I leave with you: my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
If God is sovereign, and I believe He is, then He is in control. And I can rest in Him. We do not need to be afraid about what the government is doing.
When we have opportunity to have our say as citizens I believe we should speak up. When we have opportunity we should fight evil in all its forms. But we do this with confidence and not fear. Jesus walked through this hostile world in peace and so can we. May we trust Him to help us do so.
Love in Jesus, Pastor Lowell

Our environment is made up of attitudes and attitudes can be either positive or negative. Both of them are very powerful. Positive attitudes can encourage. Negative attitudes will discourage. Positive attitudes can bring hope. Negative attitudes bring despair. Positive attitudes can heal. Negative attitudes cause illness and disease. Everyone likes positive attitudes and no one likes a negative attitude. Positive attitudes cause people to work smoothly together. Negative attitudes bring critical comments and chaos. In Philippians 4:8 we are told to think positively. “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy— think about such things.”
I trust a word to the wise is sufficient.

Pastor Lowell

Creation Frestival is right around the corner! Our little group of 20+ has been going for several years now and I believe we have it streamlined into a pretty slick operation. To start off our planning we make sure to put together a kid and camping friendly dinner menu and an easy breakfast and lunch.  Our saving grace being premade meals that can be heated on the BBQ, and a wonderful small sized chest freezer cooled with a generator a few hours a day.

Once we get there it is a matter of surviving 4 days of HEAT with youth that get bored around camp.  Don’t get me wrong, there is a LOT to do at creation but whenever they start gathering back at camp you will suddenly forget every game and activity you have ever done.  Yes, the heat tends to make you a little slower then usual. You will need to bring a list of activities, both active and sitting ones, to keep everyone engaged.  In fact I’ll put one together and link it here soon.

Here are some of the print outs I use each year:

List of what the whole group needs for camp

List of what each individual needs to bring

Loose schedule of the week

Food I’m asking each person to bring (while we provide dinners, it is much easier for each person to bring their favorite of each item)

Letter to each Camper

Permission Form for under-age campers

Creation contract concerning behavior (thanks to the Creation East survival guide)

It is also a good idea to have some sort of chore schedule to insure the camp site stays clean and the adults aren’t doing all the work. :-)  Other tips I have are, lable the coolers to avoid too much opening, pre freeze jugs of drinking water so you don’t have to buy more ice, you can never have too much duck tape and a kiddie pool for people to soak their feet in to stay cool.

I am remainded of the statement Jesus made in John 14 ; 27 ” Peace I leave with you. Not as the world gieveth give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled niether let it be afraid.” He said this to the disciples who lived under a cruel government.
I believe that God is soveriegn. He has all things under His control. We may rest with that.
He has promised to supply all of our needs acording to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
So dear ones, let us be confident in the care of God. And may we walk before Him in Peace.
Love in Jesus, Pastor, Lowell