Dunedin Church of Christ, NZ

Podcasts are available now!

Family Camp podcasts of the lessons Steve Doty shared are being uploaded to the site now.

Click the podcasts link on the top of the page, or click here to go there directly.
Make the most of a great opportunity to hear and be encouraged from these great lessons.

After the excitement of our Family Camp, what with being stranded due to high waters, and having the Police Search and Rescue visit us….here is a link to Jerod’s sermon when he got back to the US.  Check it out, as he does a great job preaching the Word, drawing on his experiences to provide an encouraging message with a challenge issued also. About the first 20 minutes is the “sermon illustration” as he recounts his afternoon/evening out in the NZ bush.

We look forward to seeing you again Jerod, keep on preaching the Word! (and don’t leave home without your GPS)

Click here for a link to download and listen to the podcast of Jerod’s sermon “Search and Rescue“.

Our brother was lost, but we left the 99 to find the one.

As the week draws to a close, we reflect back on Family Camp for 2010 and have to give God the glory for what was a truly spectacular weekend.  What made it so? As someone mentioned on Wednesday night, the ‘spirit of the camp’ was different this year. The lessons were very meaningful, challenging in many ways, while also being extremely encouraging and edifying.

Here are some photos from camp, and some comments passed on from Wednesday night.
if you have more photos send them in to me, and feel free to add comments about camp below.

Some comments when asked about highlights from camp this year:

• a repeated theme through the lessons that “the things God has done for His people, and yet they are quick to forget”….”How we can be like the Israelites in that way”
• recurring through the lessons was “the power of God”
• “in the first century Christians were dying for their faith, how many people are ‘dying’ for their faith, or dying to go to church, today?”
• we need “truth revealed, not truth concealed”
• “we can’t move forward with concealed sin in our lives” (referring to Achan,  looking at how that applies today)
• “being righteous is not just the absence of evil” – yep, that’s right, just because we didn’t knock over a little old lady and steal her purse today….
• “thought provoking food for thought” -> “Sabbath rest”, “how God manipulated the events of the OT shadows for the NT reality”

This is a group photo of the ‘strandees’…those who stayed an extra day at Family Camp because the rivers were too swollen and fast in order to cross.  It meant we managed to have two additional lessons from Steve, and a ‘freebie’ as he put it.

The "Strandees" at Family Camp

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