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2009 Camp Hosanna - Camp Songs and Growing Faith - RECAP
“I am a C H, I am a C H R I S T I A N…” This chant of Christian faith, with its upbeat pounding cadence in a shouting happy chorus of young voices, echoes in our minds as we remember one of the highlights of Camp Hosanna 2009 – Praise and Worship time after lunch each day. The morning’s lessons for the building of the campers’ reading and writing skills are behind them, and the afternoon’s lessons and activities on Bible stories from the Gospel of Luke are ahead, but for now it’s time for fun, with one praise song building on another, lifted to the lofty peaks of the Sanctuary in New Bethel Missionary Baptist Church.
It was a time of children learning and bonding in their grade-groups, forming and building friendships and rivalries, collaborating on crafts and projects, shooting hoops and racing around the huge gym
in mostly-organized games. The red-shirted campers gained in confidence and cohesion under the guidance of their blue-shirted teachers and counselors. Above all, it was a time of challenge and
fun in a truly Christian environment.
Over eighty volunteers from the Kirk and its partners, New Bethel and First Presbyterian Church of Birmingham, experienced in full the rewarding fellowship of Christian service for God’s children. The Kirk can be proud of the energy, talent and spirit that came into the presentation of Camp Hosanna under the leadership of its Ministry With Pontiac. In this project, we continued to build a solid record of teamwork with our church partners and the children’s families, in humble appreciation of the daily challenges and struggles of so many parents, grandparents, foster parents and guardians who love and want the best for their children in spite of often difficult circumstances.
The Kirk's Ministry with Pontiac thanks the Outreach and Mission Committee, the pastors, and the members of the Kirk for their support, particularly the funding and the work of the many volunteers who made it happen.
To read a hand-written thank-you letter from one of the campers,
click here.