We will be holding Good Friday and Easter Sunday services! Find out more here

Youth Camp 2014: Theme and Focus

The annual Youth Camp will be held from 19-23 December. We've asked this year's camp commandants, Hannah and Nathan to share with us a bit more about the theme and what they hoped to focus on and achieve during the 5 days.

The Hunger Games is both an award winning novel as well as movie that both youth and adults enjoy watching. In the story, various districts sacrifice tributes annually to participate in the Hunger Games. In return, the capital would provide peace and security for that district. Tributes would then hunt and kill each other in the arena, hoping to be the last survivor. Survivors are promised wealth and prosperity, but we saw in the second movie that Katniss and Peter were once again placed into the Hunger Games arena even after winning, into their little rat race.

Such a movie can only make us ponder about the vanity of the life we currently live in now. In our bid to succeed, what are we fighting against? Are we fighting against sin and Satan or against each other? What are we saved to? As we begin Youth Camp, these are the questions that we will seek to answer.

Campers can expect to learn more about the beauty of heaven as well as living in light of that hope of future glory when Christ returns again. It will expound on daily applications as well as a gospel call to follow Christ. Our camp theme verse for this year is taken from 2 Cor 4:17-18a, and we hope that the 5 days at camp will be a meaningful and fruitful time of examining the gospel, and how we can live it and be encouraged by it.

"For this light momentary affliction is preparing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not only to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. It is our hope and prayer that the youth will be able to live in the light of Christ’s coming daily." (2 Cor 4:17-18a)