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Arenzville UME 2018

Summertime. . . camp stories. . Me: Rural Bible Crusade, Wheaton, Illinois Performing Arts Camp. . . year? Tammy Zink grade school This church was the first to support us . . and still in finances and prayer A few camp stories. . with the assistance of Jax

JAX: Matthew 15: When the chief priests and the teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the children shouting in the temple courts, “Hosanna to the Son of David!” they were angry. Jesus said, “From the lips of children you have called forth praise.”

Us guys in the back row

JAX: Matthew 18, verse 2:  He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. Therefore, whoever takes the lowly position of this child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.  And whoever welcomes one such child in my name welcomes me.

Kidnapping the boy

JAX: Proverbs 22:6 Start children off on the way they should go, and even when they are old they will not turn from it.

Deuteronomy 11, verse 19. Teach these things to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.

Jonathan Turner boy. . anti, now camp manager

JAX: Matthew 18, verse 10. See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father in heaven.”

Last summer. . finally talked a little girl into singing. . music stopped. . 100 kids singing

JAX: Psalm 100: Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth.
     Worship the Lord with gladness;
    come before him with joyful songs.
 Know that the Lord is God.
    It is he who made us, and we are his 
    we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.  Enter his gates with thanksgiving
    and his courts with praise;
    give thanks to him and praise his name.
 For the Lord is good and his love endures forever;
    his faithfulness continues through all generations.

Michael Gross. . .truckload of boys

JAX: Psalm 98 from “The Message”: Sing to God a brand-new song.
He’s made a world of wonders! He rolled up his sleeves,
He set things right. He showed the world what he could do. The whole earth comes to attention.
 Shout your praises to God, everybody!
Let loose and sing! Strike up the band!  Round up an orchestra to play for God,
Add on a hundred-voice choir.  Feature trumpets and big trombones,
Fill the air with praises to King God.  Let the sea and its fish give a round of applause,
With everything living on earth joining in.  A tribute to God when he comes,
When he comes to set the earth right. He’ll straighten out the whole world,
He’ll put the world right, and everyone in it.

Boy wanting to pray where his father had accepted Christ

JAX: John 3:16. For God loved the world so much that He gave His only son, so that whoever believes in Him will have eternal life.