Tag: gospel
We love to celebrate Christmas at the Zandstra house, do you? If you were to ask your friends and families why we celebrate Christmas, you will no doubt get varying answers ranging from, “It’s a time to celebrate family” to “Santa Claus” to “Jesus’ birth.” But, I want to ask a different question… Why do […]
Tags: christmas, faith, gospel, jesus, lessons, savior, scripture
We had the privilege of having a foreign exchange student as a camper at the Timbers during week 3! She is from Mexico and has been in the U.S. (Houston) for six months and will be returning back to Mexico on Monday. She and her counselor talked about her family life and how it has […]
Tags: counselor, gospel, international, jesus, lessons, mexico, prayer, salvation, timbers
by Jake Collins
“Zacchaeus was a ‘wee little man’”… But the Son of Man came to seek and save the lost (Luke 19:10), and found him… just outside of Jericho. “… and a ‘wee little man’ was he…” (Rom. 3:23) Then, there was a tree. I’ve always been challenged and impressed by the steps of courage taken by […]
Tags: application, bible, faith, gospel, jesus
With Week 4 wrapped up and Week 5 on the move, campers and counselors will tell you that time has been flying by at camp! And every week God is making his transforming power known. Recently a camper at the Shores was baptized, proclaiming the truth of this power publicly. This was a great snapshot […]
Tags: baptism, counselor, faith, gospel, jesus, life change, shores, story, transformation
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here! 2 Corinthians 5:17 Arriving after a long journey from their home in Pennsylvania, they drove through the Pine Cove Woods Family Camp entrance where she witnessed enthusiastic counselors jumping up and down and waving at her […]
Tags: family camp, gospel, jesus, lessons, life change, redemption, savior, story, woods
At Pine Cove, we have a wide variety of campers from many different of backgrounds. Sometimes that is a camper who waits for Pine Cove year round and loves it more than anything, and other times it’s campers who have never been before and didn’t want to come, have disciplinary problems, have hard home lives, […]
Tags: counselor, discipline, faith, gospel, hebrews, lessons, life change, prayer, salvation, savior, timbers
Camper Share is one of our favorite times of the week. We love getting to hear about what the Lord is doing in the lives of our campers! Here are a few things that our campers have shared so far this summer: “After this week, God has changed my life and I want to follow Him […]
Tags: bible, camper share, faith, gospel, lessons, spiritual, summer, truth
As some of you may or may not know, each year Pine Cove has the incredible opportunity to send out hundreds of our staffers to Latin America. We are able to partner with CCI, or Christian Camping International, to put on Campamentos de Impacto, or “Impact Camps”. It is an awesome time of training Latin […]
Tags: commission camping, gospel, international, latin america, lessons, missions, peru, prayer
Have you ever felt inadequate? Truly unprepared or unable to accomplish a goal or a task? How about in elementary school when you went toe-to-toe in a spelling bee with the top speller in the class? In middle school when you only skimmed the assigned reading material and then was asked to share your synopsis […]
Tags: faith, fears, gospel, matthew, story
by Matt Murphy
This is a guest post by one of our summer staff, “Thunder Showers”. So, it is week 7 here at the Ranch and things are going great! The sun has been out all week and the kids are loving each activity class and theme night. We have a lot of counselors who have had their […]
Tags: gospel, ministry, ranch, summer staff