River of Life Camp

This weekend, Team Charger Challenge had the privilege of traveling to Irasburg, Vermont to help serve at River of Life Camp. On this journey two new faces joined the team, Kylee Bennett and Amanda Bracelin. Our team was so grateful to have these ladies give up a weekend to travel with us as we journeyed up North. We had a pretty uneventful ride until we were about an hour away from the camp and could see the snow and the mountain ranges. Creation truly reveals God’s majesty, and we really enjoyed scenery of the beautiful camp. When we arrived, Kylee, Amanda, and Eric enjoyed a sleigh ride to travel to their cabins, as they served as counselors for the weekend. T.J. and Lawrence helped out with programming during the weekend. The weather was about 9 degrees upon our arrival, and it took Lawrence a little while to get used to bitter cold
 

The first night we joined in worship with Justin and his team, followed by a strong challenge and testimony from T.J. about allowing God’s life transforming Word. He presented our need to destroy the other “thrones” we place on our heart. God needs to be on the throne, and his Word needs to shape our lives. We followed this us with pizza, playing knockout, basketball games, and genuine fellowship with the students.

 

 

 

 

Saturday’s highlights:
We had the opportunity to go snow tubing. Campers and counselors had the joy of going down a huge hill and racing on top of the frozen pond with the tubes. The best rides were when we had all the tubes linked together racing down the hill.

 

 

 

 

T.J. brought back the German band and the counselors did a pretty good job with it.


The B-Rob concert was a good time to see someone taking music and redeeming it for God’s glory. B-Rob lyrics were solid, and we could tell the students loved every bit of the concert. B-Rob sang about casting our sins to God and allowing his blood to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. That was certainly a message we as team needed. We need to daily confess our sins and allow Christ to cleanse us from our unrighteousness.

Sunday morning:
The weekend was capped off with a challenge by Lawrence from 1:Timothy 4:12. This passage challenged us to truly be an example to beleivers as we leave the camp. Are your words, actions, love, faith, spirit, and purity an example to fellow christians? Or are you a follower of the world instead of an imitation of Christ? T.J. filled the pulpit for the Sunday morning service and challenged us from the book of James. Our faith without works are dead, and we need to live lives committed to meeting the needs of others around us. Our works show that Christ sacrifice on the Cross truly transforms our lives.

 

 

Sunday Afternoon: We ran into some car toubles on the way home, but we are blessed that we are alive and back in Lancaster. We learned that Moses prayer,“So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom” (Psalm 90:12) is applicable to our lives. We don’t know when our lives will be over on earth, but we want to make it count impacting lives for Christ. Are you doing that today?