Summer Camp
Worship
By Garrett Frazier, Community Bible Church
Hello my name is Garrett Frazier and I am from Community Bible Church in San Antonio. I have been a member at CBC since
1998 and through all of those years, I have participated in numerous children’s and youth programs, but my favorite by far is summer
camp. This summer will have been my 10th year at Camp Tejas. I love Tejas and I have since day one! The camp is gorgeous, the programs are wonderful, the escape from reality is perfect, and the fun in Christ you have there just tops it all off! This year I was talking
to a friend and counselor who is in college now about how long we’ve been going to camp, things that have changed, and things that
haven’t. Some of the things that have changed are staff members, camp facilities,
size, and me! I have changed a lot! I used to be so timid and even kind of fearful. I
remember the Tejas staff members praying with me to go off the Tejas Tower, now
I jump off backwards and hang upside down. But more importantly, the things that
have not changed include the love of Christ amongst the staff (they still pray with
kids at the top of the tower), the fun times we have at camp, and the powerful
Spirit filled worship! As we sat there, we talked about friends we’ve met, connections we’ve made, our growth in Christ, and the worship and Bible study sessions.
We came to an agreement that those sessions are the best.
The growth in Christ and the Spirit filled worship are some things that
never get old. Every year at camp we have fantastic worship sessions, and this
year on our third night at Camp Tejas we started our worship after the sermon.
As the band started to play everyone went up to the front of the stage and just
knelt down before the altar to worship, praise, and cry out to the Lord. Marmax was
so filled with the Spirit of God. He swept over every camper, counselor, and staff
member in the room. While we worshipped in His presence He began to manifest
Himself in each of us. So many lives were being altered and remade you could
literally look around and see your friends worship with every fiber of their being
and know that they got it. The things that really stick with me from camp were not
what team I was on or how many games we won or even the free time fun I had;
the things that stuck were the counselors that helped me, the friends I made, and
the growth in Jesus that I experienced.
There is literally no way I can convey the power of The Lord through words; you have to experience Him yourself. I have encountered Him most powerfully through praise and worship. Over the years, times of worship at Tejas have been some of ??????????)???????????????????Q???????????$???????????????
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