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The McClendon House replacement van has arrived! It is a 2007 12-Passenger with 20k miles. The former van was hit and totalled. Thankfully, no boys were in the van and no one was seriously injured.
Thank you to Bob Moore Auto Group and those who helped us upgrade after the accident. What a tremendous blessing! Thanks again to all of you who made this happen.
I had a friend call a few weeks ago asking if the retreat cabin was available over the July 4th holiday. Amazingly it was. He said it wanted to come out and spend some time away with his family. "Oh, and do you have anything that needs to be done on the property while we are there," he asks. He said he was on vacation. When you see what they did below you'll know that they worked their tails off! Let me know if anyone needs a working vacation. Do we have a destination for you!!!!
Arrived Wednesday afternoon. Departed this afternoon at 5p. His family and the people he brought out were a tremendous blessing:
A portable stage was build for the gym, painted, and ready to use.
The remaining fence in front of our bunk cabins was completed.
A blind was built to hide a propane tank at one of our staff houses.
Outside maintanance was done on the outside of our retreat cabin and some overdue spring cleaning inside.
40 acres were finished mowed on the camp property with our new John Deere, and several projects that I did not know about yet.
I never cease to be amazed at the people that join us in this project. Thanks for sharing the same passion for this place! It is these kind of people who make this place happen. We are very grateful for all of you who invest your life and your resources in WSBR and JL Camps!
Concrete sidewalks at the Nichols Graduate House and the bunk cabins are scheduled for Monday. More roads are also scheduled to be graded and graveled. We hope to have a replacement van for the McClendon House by the end of next week.
Thanks to all of you who are helping develop our property and make this a first class place to invest in people. Thanks for making a difference!
Enter ye in at the strait gate . . because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way... Matthew 7:13-14
If we are going to live as disciples of Jesus, we have to remember that all noble things are difficult. The Christian life is gloriously difficult, but the difficulty of it does not make us faint and cave in, it rouses us up to overcome. Do we so appreciate the marvellous salvation of Jesus Christ that we are our utmost for His highest?
God saves men by His sovereign grace through the Atonement of Jesus; He works in us to will and to do of His good pleasure; but we have to work out that salvation in practical living. If once we start on the basis of His Redemption to do what He commands, we find that we can do it. If we fail, it is because we have not practised. The crisis will reveal whether we have been practising or not. If we obey the Spirit of God and practise in our physical life what God has put in us by His Spirit, then when the crisis comes, we shall find that our own nature as well as the grace of God will stand by us.
Thank God He does give us difficult things to do! His salvation is a glad thing, but it is also a heroic, holy thing. It tests us for all we are worth. Jesus is bringing many "sons" unto glory, and God will not shield us from the requirements of a son. God's grace turns out men and women with a strong family likeness to Jesus Christ, not milk sops. It takes a tremendous amount of discipline to live the noble life of a disciple of Jesus in actual things. It is always necessary to make an effort to be noble.
~Oswald Chambers, My Upmost for His HIghest July 7