Good rainy afternoon High Places, this is Chad the youth pastor. I wanted to take a moment to say again just how great it is to be the youth pastor at High Places Church. You all go above and beyond every single year to help provide and support our annual youth camp to Big Ridge. I cannot thank you all enough for all that you do to help our camp experience provide teenagers with the opportunity to connect with God. Coming out of Covid it has been tough to get students and keep students engaged and camp is always such an exciting time for so many students. Many of our regular campers look to camp as their favorite week of the entire year and you all continue to bless these campers with your generosity and support. Camp does not happen without each and every one of you supporting the youth of High Places. It is such a blessing to serve our students with the backing of so many incredible and uplifting spiritual family members. So, with all that I am and with my arms reached out to give you all a BIG HUG, I say thank you for all that you do to help this ministry to continue try to be God’s love and light to our student population. Also, I cannot go without saying thank you to my counselors who spend a week pouring into the lives of our students. Camp is nothing without them and I would ask that we pray for them as most of them will be back to college classes soon. And I am so grateful to my youth staff that works every Wednesday and at camp to provide a place that our students can feel loved and accepted for who they are. Tracy, Regina, and Orion, you are lifelines to these students, and it is a pleasure to get to serve alongside each of you. I am truly blessed with you all.
Speaking of BIG thanks, thank you all for serve at our two events last Saturday. The spirit that you all as a church body poured out into service in the Health and Safety event and the Chili Dog Days of Summer event was incredible. They say that the harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. I say High Places showed up ready for the harvest and God is preparing us for something BIG. Both events were full of smiles and joy and that is what it is all about. So, again I say thank you High Places for answering the call and showing up ready to serve in anticipation for God to do something great.
Finally, we look forward to seeing you all this Sunday at 10:30 am as we continue with part 2 of Sufficiency in All Things. This week, may we all look at everything around us and realize just how blessed we are and just how loved we are by the God of All Things. We have had lots of visitors on Sundays over the last month so look for someone you don't know and say HELLO!