As we allow Christ to pour into us, we will overflow and pour into others.
May 29, 2010
training [trey-ning] the education, instruction, or discipline of a person ....
10 days of consuming education, instruction and discipline for Summer Staff 2010. We are learning routines, regulations, systems. We are opening ourselves to creativity and exploring what it is to be part of Sonlight. But most of all, we are opening ourselves to why our work matters.
"Most important of all is to see whatever you do as being holy, sacred work. As believers in Jesus, Christians ought to have a profound sense of why work matters. Scripture says humans have the job description of cultivating and caring for the world around us - creation, culture and community (Genesis 1:28). God can do all of this without us, of course, but work matters to God because He wants our efforts to bring honor to Him."
"If a child is to keep alive his inborn sense of wonder, he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it, rediscovering with him the joy, excitement and mystery of the world we live in."
Rachel Carson, born 5/27/1907
May 27, 2010
Teams course training, Spy things showing up all over camp and a green, green meadow.
May 25, 2010
Staff are arriving! Leadership staff have been getting details for the summer organized. Staff training officially starts tomorrow. We're on the edge of summer 2010, It's a great feeling to be close to implementing all we've been working on since last September.
May 21, 2010
"Mother Teresa pointed out that the great tragedy in life is not hunger or disease, but feeling unwanted. This tragedy is as prevalent in America as India. Everywhere, abandoned, isolated people ache with loneliness. As you're rushing through life, take time to stop a moment, look into people's eyes, say something kind, and try to make them laugh. Tell them life is easier than they think: a person need only accept the impossible, do without the indispensable, bear the intolerable, and be able to smile at anything."
Erma Bombeck
JT is sporting a new Sonlight t-shirt in Oklahoma, with Keith, Stephanie and Elizabeth. Nice lookin' shirt!
May 18, 2010
Sometimes the key to passion doesn't lie in finding new truths but in reminders of old ones.
“Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had since the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.” – 1 John 2:7
So, here are a few reminders that will bring life to you if you are feeling dead:
*God’s love is unconditional, and his forgiveness is larger than any crime you have ever committed.
*If you will stand up for Him before people, Jesus will stand up for you before the Father in heaven.
*Eternal life is real and available at this moment.
*The past is dead, but you are alive in faith.
*There is no greater peace to be found in life than intimacy with your Creator.
-Andrew Schwab: Relevant Magazine
Winston is finishing up the staff bath house today- water/waste water and plumbing. What an addition! We've been talking about this building for years. Summer leadership staff starts to arrive today- Heather and TJ will be here. Katie and Andrew arrive by the end of the week. Staff training starts next Wednesday- and off we go!
