Summer Camp Report. Praise God for another great month of summer camp ministry at Elkanah! We had an

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1 Summer Camp Report Praise God for another great month of summer camp ministry at Elkanah! We had an incredible summer full of fun games, powerful preaching, and meaningful connections. Over 300 campers came through our grounds and heard the gospel proclaimed and experienced the love of Jesus through their counselors and the rest of the camp staff. Speaking of staff, this was a great year for summer staff. God provided enough staff for each position, and each team member contributed to the experience of camp. This was also the first year we added a tough color (a mud race/color war) to our high school camp, which was a blast! It was so great to see God break down walls and work on the hearts of the campers and on us as staff. We are grateful to all of you who stood with us in prayer this summer; God definitely answered! Please continue to pray that campers would get connected with local churches in their communities and grow in their grace and knowledge of God.

2 (The BMCBA pastors praying over Tom Selman) Camp Transition

3 As many of you already know, the leadership here at Camp Elkanah is in transition. Tyler Walsh will be moving on to vocational church ministry at the end of August, and Tom Selman will take his place as the director. There is more information about the search for an Assistant Director below. Tyler and Tom co wrote a letter to the Camp Elkanah community. To read that letter click the link below: Click here to read Tyler and Tom's letter Introducing Our New Assistant Director As many of you may already know, we have been working hard to decide who will be the next Assistant Director of Camp Elkanah. The Assistant Director has the primary roles of maintaining and improving our facilities, hosting all of our rental groups on site, coordinating and growing our volunteer ministry, helping lead our summer camp program, mentoring summer staff, and working shoulder to shoulder with the Camp Director on other projects and initiatives as we follow God s leading in the ministry. We are pleased to announce that, after much deliberation and interviews with several qualified candidates, Landen Reddington will be the new Assistant Director for Camp Elkanah. Landen graduated from Eastern Oregon University with degrees in business and music. He and his fiancé, Josie, have served on our summer staff for several summers. They are getting married in mid August, and being working for Camp Elkanah at the beginning of September. Thank you for praying!

4 Prayer Requests At Elkanah, we believe we can do nothing apart from the Lord Jesus Christ (John 15:5). Please be in prayer for Camp Elkanah. To see current prayer requests and to signup to receive our monthly prayer letter click the button below. Donation Needs Financial donations towards septic update and new cabin Shalem. A volunteer to convert VHS tapes to DVD. A refrigerator

5 Click Here to See and Signup for Prayer Requests Full of Joy If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father s commandments and abide in his love. These things I have spoken to you, that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be full. John 15:10 11 Set the stage for this conversation in your mind s eye: It s Passover, Jesus has taken his closest friends to the upper room, the King washed the feet of his servants. The Messiah knows his betrayal, suffering, and death are impending. The Word has some final instructions for his beloved children. Fully knowing the suffering ahead at the hand of some of these beloved children, Jesus heart is for the joy of his people. What mercy, what love, what a precious act on my behalf. Jesus is concerned for my joy. It wasn t enough for him to die, in my place, as payment for my willful sin, but his love for me was so great that his last hours on earth were spent making sure my joy would be full. And how, does he say, that my joy will be filled to capacity? It centers around the question, Where is my heart making its home? To abide is to dwell, reside, remain, make a home in. If you chose to place yourself in the love of Christ, joy will overcome every part of your heart. How do we go about placing ourselves in the love of Christ? By keeping his commandments, like the ones from chapter 13&14: Love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another (13:34 35), Let not your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. (14:1, 27), Abide in me (15:4). Actively chose to place yourself in Christ s love and joy will overcome your heart. Olivia Walsh

6 The Elkalendar (Elkanah+Calendar)