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CAMP THREE

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

.......................................................................................Camp One Summary 3..........................................................................................................Overview 4

.....................................................................................................Session One 7

...................................................................................................Session Two

17

...............................................................................................Session Three 33..................................................................................................Session Four 49

........................................................................Supplies List and Materials 61

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CAMP THREE SUMMARY:

MISSION: Teach families how to hear Gods voice and recognize and

acknowledge God in their everyday lives.

EMPHASIS: Family testimonies

FOCUS SCRIPTURE: Psalm 145:4, One generation shall praise thy

works to another and shall declare thy mighty acts.

ULTIMATE GOAL: Upon returning home, families will continue

disciplines from Camps One and Two, read and discuss Hearing God,

and testify to one another regularly about what God is doing in their

lives.


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CAMP THREE OVERVIEW:

SESSION ONE:

....Welcome Activity Right-Way Wrong Way slide show, review principlesfrom Camp Two

..................Teaching What is a testimony?.............Illustrations Mall map, locomotive, house on sand or rock

........................Media Video Testimony.........................Game Who Am I?

..................Dismissal Assign homework Family History sheets

SESSION TWO:....Welcome Activity Video: Cardboard Testimonies

..................Teaching Ezekiel 36:6 God gives us a new heart.............Illustrations Youve Gotta Have Heart (surgery)

........................Media Video Testimony............................Skit Melodrama: Testimony On Trial

.....................Activity Hymnal Testimony; Share Personal Testimonies.........................Game Who Am I?

..................Dismissal Time for Family Project Square DancingSESSION THREE:

....Welcome Activity Video Testimony, Personal Testimonies, Review.........................Game Eyes and Ears

..................Teaching Paul shares his testimony with King Agrippa.............Illustrations Flashlight, Traffic Sounds

.........................Game Who Am I?............................Skit Crossing the Jordan

.....................Activity Hymnal Testimony..................Dismissal Explain take-home assignment; family monument/testimonies;

Camp fire


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SESSION FOUR:

....Welcome Activity Video testimony and review.....................Activity Hymnal Testimony

.........................Game Who Am I?, Toothpaste Game...............Illustration Mouth Devotional...................Teaching Testimonies as given by Biblical figures; 3rd C Catastrophe

.....................Activity Top five reasons that families need children..................Dismissal End with personal testimonies


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SESSION ONE:SLIDE 1.1

[Right Way / Wrong Way Slide Show playing]

Welcome to Family Camp! Were so glad youre here.

[WELCOME ACTIVITY: Review]

{Each of the numbered points discussed during this review will be inserted into a

balloon and popped by campers throughout the discussion. Make sure the balloons

have the corresponding letter and number on them to identify them.}

SLIDE 1.2 - CLICK FOR EACH OF THE FOUR POINTS TO APPEAR

At Family Camp One, we learned the importance of having weekly family devotion

time, family projects, and family huddles.. At Family Camp Two, we learned the

importance of also having a weekly Bible reading time as a family. Does anyone

remember the four things the Word of God does for us?

[A]

teaches us

exposes our mistakes

corrects our mistakes

equips us to do right

SLIDE 1.3 - CLICK FOR EACH OF THE FOUR POINTS TO APPEAR

Thats right! Now who remembers our Family Camp Rules?

[B]

Families stay together.

Families must participate in all family activities together.

Families pray together.

Families must attend all family camp sessions together.


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SLIDE 1.4 - CLICK FOR EACH OF THE THREE POINTS TO APPEAR

Here at Camp Three, we are going to focus on sharing testimonies. Dont worry if you

dont know what that means! Were going to spend all weekend explaining it to you.

By the end of camp, you will:

[C]Know where you came from.

Identify what events led to change in your life.

Know where you are now.

Lets get started!

[TEACHINGWHAT IS A TESTIMONY?]

SLIDE 1.5

{Pass out scripts to families. Call on one family to read the follow passage from the

slideshow.}

Let each generation tell its children of your mighty acts. I will

meditate on your majestic, glorious splendor and your wonderful

miracles. Your aweinspiring deeds will be on every tongue; I will

proclaim your greatness. Everyone will share the story of yourwonderful goodness; they will sing with joy of your righteousness.

Psalm 145:4

[1] In order for us to build a Christian testimony in our families,

we must establish a strong foundation on which that testimony is

built. Our strong foundation is built on Jesus Christ. In Gods

word it states, So this is what the Sovereign LORD says: See, I

lay a stone in Zion, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone for a

sure foundation; the one who trusts will never be dismayed.

Isaiah 28:16


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[2] In that passage, Jesus Christ is the tested, precious

cornerstone that makes a strong foundation and anyone who

trusts in him will not be disappointed in life in the long run.

When it comes to sharing our testimonies, we want to lay afoundation based on Christ. The first step we need to take is to

determine where we came from.

[Mall Map Scenario]

{Pass out scripts to families.}

To put this in modern thinking, lets say it this way. Suppose we are in a mall that we

have never been to before and we want to go to Dillards. We have no idea where the

Dillards is, so we walk in the door of the mall, and what do we do to find the

Dillards?

Thats right, we find the map.

What does it say on the map to help us locate where we are?

SLIDE 1.6

[You Are Here with an arrow]

[1] We can then find the fastest route to the Dillards because we

now know where we are. Sure, we could have wandered around

until we stumbled into Dillards but that would have taken a long

time, wasted lots of energy, and kept us confused and frustrated.

[2] Its the same way in our spiritual life. When we dont know

who we are in Christ and what His will is for our lives, we tend

wander around in search of our lifes purpose, which wastes time

and energy and leaves us confused and frustrated.

[3] But if we know who we are in Christ and where we stand with

Him, we can confidently head toward our lifes purpose as we

make godly daily decisions.


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SLIDE 1.7 - CLICK FOR EACH OF THE THREE POINTS TO APPEAR

So . . .

Where did we come from?

What events led to change in our lives?

Where are we in life right now?

In order to answer these questions, we need to start with our family history.

[Train Illustration]

{Pass out scripts to families. Have train on table with several cars unattached to

locomotive.}

{Move locomotive along track without any other train car pieces}

SLIDE 1.8 - INSTRUCTIONS TO CLICK ARE PROVIDED BELOW

Who can tell me what a locomotive is created to do? [pull train cars]

So if a locomotive is running around the track all by itself pulling nothing, is it

fulfilling its purpose? [no]

{Add train cars to the locomotive; move along the track}

What if we add cargo to this locomotive. Now is it fulfilling its purpose? [yes]

NOW CLICK ON SLIDE 1.8 TO BRING UP FAMILY PORTRAIT

[1] This train is a great illustration of how family generations are

created to work. A mother and a father lead their kids spiritually,

who someday have kids of their own and lead them, and so on and

so on until there is a long legacy of spiritual wisdom andleadership passed through the generations. As a result, everyone

in the family knows who they are in Christ and makes their life

decision based on Gods will for them.


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NOW CLICK ON SLIDE 1.8 TO FADE FAMILY PORTRAIT AND STOP TRAIN

[2] {Take locomotive away and all train cars except one; leave

one sitting there motionless}

But what if we dont come from a long line of ancestors that

served God and passed His love from one generation to the next?

Perhaps we dont even know anything about our grandparents or

great-grandparents, and were not sure what kind of people they

were. This may make us feel lonely, sad, or incomplete.

[3a] If this is how we feel about our family history, we need to

know that we dont have to feel sad, lonely, or incomplete.

SLIDE 1.9

[3b] {Replace single train car with the locomotive}

Its never too late to start a new family legacy! We can pass our

spiritual wisdom to our kids, and they will pass it on to their kids

and before we know it . . .

{Add train cars to locomotive, move along the track}

We have a powerful family legacy that lives on long after we are

gone!


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[2] This grieved and angered God so much that He determined to

destroy everything that had the breath of life in it. Only one man,

Noah, found favor in Gods eyes because Noah worshiped and

respected Him. God told Noah that He would send a great flood to

judge the entire world by covering it with water, and Noahbelieved God.

God provided a way for Noah, his wife, their three sons, their

wives, and each kind of land animal and bird to survive the flood

(the sea creatures could survive in the water). God told Noah

exactly how to build a huge ark that was perfectly suited to float

on the floodwaters and survive the storm.

Noah and his family worked on the ark for many years, probably

warning those around them that judgment was coming. However,nobody but Noahs family believed. When they finished building,

God brought two of every kind of animal (including dinosaurs!)

and seven of some, to the ark.

[3] The Creation Museum shows us exactly how all those animals

fit perfectly into the arkthere was room for tens of thousands of

animals . . . even dinosaurs. Did you know the average dinosaur

was only the size of a sheep, and Noah didnt have to take full

grown adults?

Weve all seen the damage a local flood can doripping up trees,

destroying houses, and demolishing everything in its path. Now

imagine the damage done by a flood covering the entire planet!

Nothing would be the same after the waters had left and the earth

had begun to dry. Everything must have looked very strange to

Noah and his family as they came off of the ark!

After leaving the ark, Noah built an altar to the Lord, sacrificingone of each of the clean animals. God promised never to flood the

entire earth again. The sign of this promise is the rainbow we see

today.

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SESSION FOUR BACKUP TEXT:

IN CASE OF SLIDESHOW MALFUNCTION, PRINT THIS PAGE AND HAVE ON HAND

DURING SESSION FOUR

The good man brings good things out of the good stored up in his heart, and the evilman brings evil things out of the evil stored up in his heart. For out of the overflow of

his heart his mouth speaks. Luke 6:45

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