June Newsletter

As this article hits the website, the youth from First Baptist Church are away at a mission camp in Talladega, AL. Our group is made up of nine students along with three of our adult youth leaders. We are in the same location as last year, yet our purpose in being here is a little different. This year, we are spending several hours a day working on a project in the community as part of the schedule for the mission camp.

Our project specifically is to do some work at the C.L. Salter Elementary School here in Talladega. Over our days away at camp, we will be painting their playground equipment, washing some windows, and just doing some general cleaning up to give the school a fresh look. I am so excited about how our work here at the school and our time under the teaching of the Word will touch all those who are taking part in the camp this year. Continue to lift us up while we are away, that God may use our efforts to be a blessing to others.

The theme for this year’s camp is FLIP. The key verse comes from part of Matthew 20:16 – “So the last will be first, and the first last.” All throughout the Bible, Christians are told to act in ways that seem so opposite sometimes: love your enemies; rejoice in suffering; if you lose your life, you find it. Later on in chapter 20 of Matthew, Jesus is found saying, “Whoever desires to become great among you, let him be your servant.” That’s what we want to do through our time of working at the school – though the service we perform here at the school may seem unnoticed, that it would be used to create a great impact for the Lord and His Kingdom.

Living for His glory,
Bro. Ryan