Archive for March 4th, 2009

On Friday, February 20th the youth ministry left from the church parking lot around 4:30 p.m. for Core Camp 2009.  Core Camp is a weekend retreat that our High School program started a couple years ago.  The goal is to take a small group of teens for a weekend and help them learn how to study the Bible.  It is a very intense program with very little free time (about 3 hours a day).  The trip is open to all however we keep the spots limited and it is not the sort of trip that draws everyone.

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acceptance |akˈseptəns|

noun
1 the action or process of being received as adequate or suitable 
approval or favorable regard : the options proposed by the report gained acceptance.

All of us have a need to belong that is wired in to our being.  We all want to be accepted and know that others approve of us.  No matter what country, culture, people, or tribe all have traditions of acceptance.  These traditions vary from slaughtering a bull and drinking it’s blood, to going on a walkabout, to  graduating high school or college.  Each “rite of passage” trying to achieve the same purpose to be accepted.
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