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my week in arkansas

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Arkansas Clubbin

I just spent a week in Siloam Springs AR doing three 5-day clubs per day. I think I would have to say that this past week was the most amazing week of the summer so far. So many memories fill my head and I know i'll never be able to explain each moment. But let's just say, God is good.

Here are a few memorable quotes from my week-

"Does it bother anyone else that the thing on the toilet says, 'Jiggle me' ?"

-Vanessa

"You need to get your eyes checked, it's probably because you were born in your own room!"

-Fletcher telling a story about the lady when he tried to get his drivers license

"I'm going deaf in one ear and blind in the other."

-Fletch

"Sugar loaf"

-Luke

"Hallelujah! "

Luke after my report about a boy named Tony who accepted Jesus that day

me: "What did Jesus just do for you?"

eight year old Tony looking up at me: "Washed my heart clean!"

"There is a river, that never shall run dry."

-Men singing

"Two Gals' Junk!"

-Vanessa in true Vanessa fashion

"God is cool!"

Charlie

"Oh man! There goes my career as a nun!"

-Ruth

One day in the car we convinced Fletcher that Ruth was engaged to a guy named Jon-

Ruth: "Yeah! His last name is kind of strange"

Fletch: "His name is Chemistry?"

In the car-

Charlie: Hey look Vanessa, it's like a really big parking lot!"

Cathy: "Yeah! It's like a middle school!"

During a game of Blocus-

"Block Block Block Block Block Block Block"

-Fletch

"I woke up at 2 a.m. singing 'Aruba, Jamaica...' "

-Mrs. Atkins

"You should go into a dark closet like that corner over there."

-Alisha

Alisha and Sarah were trying to get me to buy coffee in the morning because I was really sleepy-

"We could just slap her!" -Alisha

"Hey! I'm thinking about something, I'm thinking about something good!"

-Mrs. Myers

"Can I pause this conversation just a second? ALISHA NO! NO!"

-Charlie in the car after Alisha took her Pringles

"Okay we're back in the right county now!"

-Isaac in the car when we got lost

thus

just to know, Thus saith the Lord. 

Fruitfulness

...your fruitfulness comes from me.
Hosea 14:8

CYIA 2008

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Here are some pictures of my two weeks at CYIA.

brightness after rain

2 Samuel 23:3b-4
When one rules over men in righteousness, when he rules in the fear of God, he is like the light of morning at sunrise on a cloudless morning, like the brightness after rain that brings the grass from the earth.

horn creek kid

"if i have a cookie and you want the cookie then I give you my cookie."
-Sean quoting a kid during a family discussion at Horn Creek

so much easier said than lived:

He loves me...and that's enough.

a father quoting his son

"I want to follow Jesus, but it's so hard!"

power to grasp love

Ephesians 3:16-18
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge - that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

name

Glory in His holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice.
psalm 105:3

Glory in His holy name. Wear it draped across your chest in brilliant colors. Proudly declare your father's love to every soul who beholds your body. Declare to the world that you are trusted with a message, a message of a name, the name above all names. That you are special, that you are wanted, that you are loved.

God gets on our level

Hosea 11:4
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love: I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them.

camp quotes

These are phrases, words, and quotes that meant something to me while I was away. Some of them make me laugh, some of them bring back a picture in my mind, but all of them represent a moment of CYIA 2008.


"It's amazing how hard it is to find your nose when you aren't looking."
-Sarah VonBergen

"Go Girl!"
-Elfrida Harder

"Everyones addicted to something...I'm addicted to air!"
-Caleb Banzaf

"PC stands for Pretend Computer."
-Caleb

"We all sound like a variety of frogs."
-Celeste, the day we were all sick

"Oh NO!"
-Luke Myers everyday in the car with a unique look on his face

"Luke! Your sister just passed you in your mother's car!"
-Larson

"God gave..."
-Daniel 1

"Look at the extent God is willing to go in order to have the love of his people."
-chapel speaker

"If you think you know what to do in order to please God then you've got two weeks to get that our of your head."
-chapel speaker

"Love is whats in the room on Christmas if you stop opening presents and listen."
-a child describing what love is

"How big is your God?"
-Josh Gilmore

"It was like God was reaching down and saying, 'I can use whoever I want!' "
-Tim Weddle (camp director) speaking about a struggling student

"I have wept for love of them"
-from the song "whom shall I send"

"God's like, 'hey I have grace for you!' "
-Jordon Lemons, chapel speaker

"Take God at his word when he says he has forgiven us."
-Jordon Lemons

"There is a wage to sin."
-Pastor Myer

"How sad it is to have to live with the consequences of forgiven sin."
-unknown

"You can't get out, that's because you didn't have anything to do with getting in."
-Pastor Bob speaking about Salvation by grace

"The stiller the water, the more perfect the reflection."
-unknown

"Welcome to the family."
-Pastor Bob

"Wow! You have made me a child!"
-Chapel speaker talking to God

"God loves you too much to let you live a mediocre life."
-Jake

"Thank you for giving to the Lord."
-Sang to Tim after learning that he won't be back next year

"I was praying for the kid and all the sudden I felt something that was nothing but joy."
-Forrest, describing a memorable moment in 5-day clubs

"You mean that's all we have to do??"
-Mrs. Myers, remembering a child who heard the gospel in her club

"If you're not prayerful nothing will happen."
-Said by Mrs. Myers, lived out by the staff

"I have but one candle to burn, and I'd rather burn it in a land that is dying in darkness than in a land that is flooded with lights."
-anonymous missionary

"I wanna become like that ant so I can save that anthill."
-Mrs. Myers talking about what Jesus did

home at last

yep these past two weeks were amazing.