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YOUTH ADVENTURE CAMPS!!

Youth Adventure Camps!

This summer, the Youth Adventure Camp of The Christian Community is going to the trail, to the beach, to the rivers. We will run outdoor adventure camps this summer with room for twenty participants on each trip.

Each trip will create an independent and full camp experience, with singing, stories and projects as well as the outdoors camping aspect of building our own camp, cooking our own food, and on some trips, traveling to our next camp location.

How to Heal? A Youth Conference
June 16 – 23, Atlanta, GA
For rising 9th – 12th graders

North Carolina Kite Camp
June 27 – July 3, Hammocks Beach State Park
for rising 6th – 8th graders

NY Backpacking Camp
July 12 – 21, Harriman State Park
for rising 6th – 8th graders

Youth Adventure Canoe Camp
July 26 – August 5, Flambeau River, Wisconsin
for rising 9th – 12th graders

Children’s Canoe Camp – Camp Greenwood Lake
August 8 – 18, Namekagon River, Wisconsin
for rising 6th – 8th graders

Click here to learn more about the trips or to register:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OrCScNgEKJNAoEayodmHlKkz7dNWbwFF/view?usp=sharing

Participation cost is $1000
with a $100 sibling discount for each sibling attending

FINANCIAL AID: No one should stay away for financial reasons! Financial Aid is available on a need and availability basis. Email Youth Adventure Camp director Jen Zimberg at ccyouthadventurecamp@gmail.com

March 2, 2021/0 Comments/by CCNA

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The Transfiguration on the Mountain (Mt.17:1-13)

The Transfiguration on the Mountain (Mt.17:1-13)

Each era has its own images of Christ. Each of these images has its own one-sidedness, but maybe together they form the whole truth. In the first few centuries of Christianity there were only symbols of abundant life and trust: the fish, the anchor, the shepherd. Only in the third century the countenance of Christ was depicted for the first time—the countenance of the Risen One. When humanity was wrestling with questions about death, He appeared in countless representations as the Crucified One—the Man of Sorrows. And when there was nothing left but materialism, His image was reduced to Jesus, the simple carpenter from Nazareth.

Not long ago, a new image appeared, something that had not been seen in the history of Christianity before. In a short time, this picture became famous and went over the whole world. It is the sculpture of a poor man, a drifter, who is lying on a bench in the open air, covered with a coat. Only his bare, wounded feet betray who he is. “Homeless Jesus” is the title of this artwork. This image tells us what we did to Him: in our society there was no place for Him anymore. He has been banished from our daily life. What can we do in our time to give Him a place where He is at home?

HOMELESS JESUS, TIMOTHY SCHMETZ, 2013

Only once in His life on earth Christ showed Himself in His true form, in the overwhelming appearance of His Transfiguration on the mountain. When this image disappeared, the Father gave us a task for all time with the words: “This is my Son whom I love. In Him I have been revealed. Hear His word!”

Christ is no longer visible on earth. He leads a hidden, occult existence. But we can hear Him through the words He spoke, words that want to be weighed in our heart until our heart is moved by them. Or by the still voice in us, the Christ voice of conscience. Then we begin to walk with Him, and He with us. If we listen to His voice, He will find a place on earth where He can live.

-Rev. Bastiaan Baan, February 28, 2021

March 1, 2021/0 Comments/by CCNA

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The Temptation in the Desert (Mt.4)

The Temptation in the Desert (Mt.4)

In countless ways power is wielded over people in our time. True, the battle for power is as old as humanity, but the battle is getting worse. We know the weapons through which this happens: Force is power. Money is power. Knowledge is power. Not only physical weapons are used to subjugate people, but also the more subtle weapons of technology, money and knowledge are employed on a large scale. The newest, strongest, and most insidious means of power is called information. Whoever has data has the future, is the message.

How often do we condemn the powerful of our time, until we come under the spell of power ourselves, and cannot resist the temptation to subjugate or belittle others. In this way, as weak human beings, we all are part of the vicious cycle of power and powerlessness.

Three times Jesus is tempted to the utmost to exercise power:

Power over matter—by turning stones into bread,

Power over the laws of nature—by commanding the angels,

Power over earthly riches—by possessing everything.

He can do it, but all three times He chooses the royal way of powerlessness. In the same way He will also confront His death—as the God of powerlessness. Then, when He has been nailed to the cross, one more time the tempter will stand before Him in the guise of the crowd of people that tempt Him with the words: “He trusts in God; let God deliver Him now … for He said, ‘I am the Son of God.’”

Because He, the almighty Creator, chose for powerlessness, He became truly our Lord.

And we? Are we willing to follow Him on the royal way of powerlessness?

–Rev. Bastiaan Baan, February 21, 2021

February 22, 2021/0 Comments/by CCNA

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