Found Lacking: FOS Winter Camp Day 2

Hello Again,
It is almost midnight here at Ghormley Meadows, and we have some excited kids. We started off the morning with devotions. Each student received a notebook that includes a camp schedule, space for notes, and devotions. It would be extremely cool for the kids to come home to parents asking about the notebooks! They will keep them with them until the trip home, and you could walk through some of their notes, and even the morning devotions they did while at camp. After devotions we hit breakfast, and then had individual devotion time (that means the kids read their BIbles on their own, rather than as a cabin). The pictures you see of groups in cabins are of our breakout sessions. We had 4 total:
1) Ally Fleming- "There's Something About Mary"- Ally is a great youth staffer, and her breakout session was for young women trying to figure out how to be a godly woman in today's world. It was an in depth look at the life and character of Mary, the mother of Jesus. Most of our girls sat through this at least once, and it would be worthwhile to ask what they learned from this one!
2) Nate Wauzynski- "When Push Comes to Love"- Nate is a former youth pastor from Yakima, and has come to FOS with an awesome energy and heart to serve. He has preached a few times, and taught this breakout session on loving people who are "unlovable." He did a great job exposing the Biblical truth that if we don't love these, then no one will. It is our responsibility to love people that are difficult to love. Another great session!
3) Rachael Brown- "Worship Through Music"- Rachael spoke to a few smaller groups (mostly musicians) about the true heart of musical worship. She did a phenomenal job bringing to light the Biblical inspiration of most music, and reminding us that all of our worship should be "Scripture-centric." Every student and leader I saw coming out of this one was processing deep truth.
4) Chase Salyers- "What is He Worth?"- Chase's breakout session was on taking risks for the gospel. Chase just moved to Washington from Ohio to finish school, and is a man of the Word. He did a great job stirring up the hearts of these young men and women to go and share the gospel all over the world.

After our breakout sessions, we had lunch and a bit of a break. At 1 pm we started our game sessions. The most popular of which is likely the infamous "grinder." You'll see pictures that invoke the competitive spirit. The structured games lasted for two hours, and at 3:30 pm the students have free time until dinner. At 6:15 pm we start pre-service prayer, and then head into our service. Tonight I spoke on "Joyful Submission." The big idea was as follows: Having a high view of Jesus allows us to serve Him joyfully. The point of the message was that if we are having a difficult time serving God, and it feels like begrudging submission to a far off God, we have lost sight of our great Savior. I listed ten attributes of Jesus from Scripture: 1) Selfless (Phil. 2:6), 2) Humble (Phil. 2:7-8), 3) Compassionate (Matt. 9:36), 4) Loving (John 15:13), 5) Courageous (Matt. 26), 6) Powerful (Matt. 9:53), 7) Gracious (Luke 23:34), 8) Sympathetic (Hebrews 4:15), 9) Just (Gen. 18:25), 10) Righteous (1 Peter 2:22). In light of all these things, we should be excited to be on Jesus' team.

I hope these emails are finding you well! We have some bumps and bruises, and some sleepy faces, but God is moving in the hearts of our young men and women, and lives are being changed for eternity on this mountain. God is good.

You can see these emails in blog form with picture captions at fosmissions.blogspot.com and foundlacking.blogspot.com

For the Glory of God,
Jake Gamble

Chase's Breakout Session- "What is He Worth"