Last weekend SMMM was recognized at the Appalachian Regional Conference of the Association of North American Missions (http://www.anamissions.org/) with the presentation of ANAM’s The Great Commission Award. This award is given annually to an organization or individual for “outstanding, widely recognized contribution to the cause of Christ – especially in North America.” Doug Clark, ANAM’s [...]
Yesterday Debbie and I received an email from a good friend. We’ve known Dan and Rita since my freshman year at Wheaton College. It is a friendship that was solidified by weekly trips in the early 1970s to Joliet, IL to minister in a coffeehouse outreach (remember those?). Some Saturday nights we would drive Dan’s [...]
It’s kind of a slower paced day around camp today. I’ve been catching up on my desk work which gets woefully behind during the summer weeks of camp. I’m slowly discovering that the top of my desk is mostly black, not papered in white.
I took advantage of this lull to review some pictures of the [...]
Today I had a great reminder of the wide variety of gifts God gives to His children. As I walked across the camp grounds a little while ago, I heard a mower cutting grass over by the swimming pool. I heard hammers up on the hill where maintenance is rebuilding a porch damaged by a [...]
There are two days in my life that have impacted me more than any other experiences I’ve ever had or will have. The first one is the day I accepted Christ as my personal Savior. I don’t honesty have a calendar day for that but I was six years old and it was a Sunday [...]
