What's your purpose on SS?

I’m sure we have all toiled with many questions and thoughts as we think about our time together.  What will this time be like?  Will I get along with the other people working?  What will my job be?  What will the room we stay in be like?  And then we have the questions that pertain to our spiritual life:  How am I going to grow?  What am I going to get out of this experience?  And these are just a few.  

While these questions are valuable, I wouldn’t want you to miss your primary purpose this summer:  To serve God and proclaim the Gospel. 

 By serving God and proclaiming the gospel you will gain many things from this experience and grow in crazy ways but please don’t miss out on your first priority while at camp.  No mater where you find yourself working this summer, remember you are there to proclaim the gospel.  It is easy for us to see the camp speaker or even the leaders bringing kids proclaiming the gospel but as we work together as the body we too share in this work. Just like the body has different parts that work together, we all have different functions on summer staff but as we work together we work for one purpose:  for kids to know that they have a God that loves them deeply and would stop at nothing to restore a relationship with His creation.    As it says in 1 Cor. 12:6 “There are different kinds of working, but in all of them and in everyone it is the same God at work.”  We have a high calling this summer but I want to encourage you that God has gone before us as a summer staff and camp team and all we have to do is listen to his voice and follow his lead.  I feel like too often I complicate things and let things distract or get in the way of fulfilling my primary purpose.  

Is my life reflecting the gospel?  Am I living an intentional life for Jesus?  I would encourage you to ask yourself these questions as we prepare for our time together.  Remember we are not just preparing for an assignment but instead a lifetime with the Lord.