Campfire Saturday–Junior High Winter Blast–Good News!

Hello, Blog friends. It’s Campfire Saturday! Please enjoy this sneak peek at one of my blogs written for Camas Meadows Bible Camp.

Our junior high winter blast is such a fun camp!

 

The shouts and laughter of forty campers and their accompanying counselors filled the air. They even made the lodge tremble with their energetic singing and hand motions.

This year, our speaker was the one and only Wiggin!

Wiggin was a camper here at Camas Meadows back when Scruffy and I were . . . much younger. Then he became a camp counselor and finally a youth pastor and camp speaker!

Wiggin spoke about the gospel being good news.

He mentioned how sometimes the gospel doesn’t seem like good news, even though that is what the word gospel means.

Sometimes kids are dealing with some serious church hurt. Maybe their family had a dispute with a local church, fell through the cracks and had real needs ignored, experienced the horror of a church leader who betrayed their trust, or watched the Christians around them treat others in ways that Christ would never have praised.

 

But while Wiggin was honest and serious about the hard things kids have lived and seen, he assured them that the gospel really is good news.

Wiggin shared about the origin of the word gospel. How it came from ancient military clashes where the townsfolk were waiting for the messenger who would run back from the battle to let them know if their army won the day or had been defeated. Gospel, good news, was a message of victory for the worried people who waited.

 

And that wraps up this sneak peek of life at our Junior High Winter Blast this winter. For the rest of the story, please visit The Campfire Blog!