Summer
(CAMP)
Humility through Service
> By Scott Daugherty recreation intern
Perhaps our greatest asset and the one thing that we cannot obtain
more of is time. Thus, whatever we spend our time on is the biggest
indicator of what we value most, such as when we decide to spend
our time with the ones we love most. If time is the biggest
indicator of what we value, then what we spend our summer
doing will show us where our hearts lie. Many people will
spend their summers serving themselves by pursuing
self-benefiting acts of pride. However, Christ has called
us as Christians in Mark 8:24 that “whoever desires
to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up
his cross, and follow Me.” One of Christ’s biggest
prerequisites for His leadership to be bestowed
upon us, his followers, is that we must deny
ourselves. We must give up our desires, plans,
and image by humbling ourselves with the
knowledge that His purpose is incorruptible.
This required me to give up my biggest asset,
the summer, to follow Him by serving kids at
Camp Tejas.
One of Camp Tejas’ primary ministry
focuses is on the campers that we directly
accommodate. However, our roles as the
Summer Ministry Team aren’t necessarily
ostentatious. Rather, our service to the campers
resembles that of support, that campers may
forget about their needs to better focus on a lifechanging week of camp. We scrub toilets, clean
dishes, and lifeguard so that they can forget about
the worries of the world and make growth in God
the center of their efforts. Even though the work
isn’t glamorous, the joy that propagates from seeing
a smile stemming from our service resounds so much
greater than anything the world may offer. >>
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“If time is the biggest
indicator of what we value,
then what we spend our
summer doing will show us
where our hearts lie.”
A summer camper races down
the red slide at the pool.
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