Camp Ministry & Transformation | Alex Hisey, Director of Camp Pagweak

So, for those of you who do [sighs]

maybe get up in front of groups more

often, um you may be similar to me and

that you have kind of like a a [snorts]

warm-up couple sentences or paragraph,

an intro of some sort to get comfortable

and Michael just stole mine. Um, and I'm

pretty sure this happened last year when

I was here. This is a great

introduction, but I I was going to

introduce myself from the get-go. Um, so

I'm going to go through it again. My

name is Alex. Alexisy. It's nice to meet

you and be with you here this morning.

Originally from Monton. Um, while I've

been involved in camping ministry since

2017, this is my kind of coming up on my

one-year mark on the role uh the camp

director role here for Camp Pegak. And

so, while there's plenty that I am still

learning day in and day out, uh, happy

to be operating with a little bit more

experience now in the role as we kind of

get settled in and chart uh, a course

for where Pegak is headed next. My hope

for today uh as I come to share a bit

with you about Camp Pegak is that we can

first spend some time together in the

word as a form of kind of mini sermon or

devotional moment and let that kind of

serve as our leadoff point to be talking

about camp. It's its biblical

foundations and how that ties into kind

of the practical things that we are

working on right now um out at Camp

Pegak. And so my goal for this morning

is that you would leave here with not

only a sense of what we're doing at

camp, but with a sense of this is how

God uses camp and powerful ways to

transform and grow his people.

Uh so before we jump into it, um why

don't we just take another quick I know

we just prayed, but I'm I'm going to

pray again because that's okay. We can

pray as much as we want to. All right,

let's pray. Dear heavenly father, I

thank you for today. I thank you for

everyone who braved this cold weather to

gather here in community. Uh I just pray

that as we step into your word that you

would open up our hearts, that you would

reveal truth to us and that it would

impact us in profound and meaningful

ways. We pray this in your great name.

Amen.

So this morning we're going to go

through a passage that is found in

second Peter together. Now many of you

might be familiar with this passage, but

it's not necessarily one that we give a

whole lot of air time to. It's not the

top 10 passages that we talk about at

church. Um, but I want to offer us a

space to kind of sit and ponder it for a

moment because I do believe that within

this passage there is a profound truth

about formation and about growth and

what that means and looks like for the

disciple. So this morning we're going to

be in second Peter 1 3-1. And if you

have your Bible with with you, you're

welcome to read along with it will be up

behind me on the screen. It goes like

this. His divine power has given us

everything we need for a godly life

through our knowledge of him who called

us by his own glory and goodness.

Through these he has given us his very

great and precious promises so that

through them you may participate in the

divine nature, having escaped the

corruption in the world caused by evil

desires. For this very reason, make

every effort to add to your faith

goodness and to goodness knowledge and

to knowledge self-control and to

self-control perseverance and to

perseverance godliness and to godliness

mutual affection and to mutual affection

love. For if you possess these qualities

in increasing measure, they will keep

you from being ineffective and

unproductive in your knowledge of the

Lord Jesus Christ. But whoever does not

have them is nearsighted and blind,

forgetting that they have been cleansed

from their past sins. Therefore, my

brothers and sisters, make every effort

to confirm your calling and election.

For if you do these things, you will

never stumble and you will receive a

rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of

our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

Now, as we look at this passage, I want

to make sure that we grasp the context

of it. Every time we're reading

scripture, we need to know our context

if we're able to best understand it the

way that it was originally written and

who it was originally to. Second Peter

is one of the epistles. It's a letters

letters written by the early apostles to

early churches and early believers who

are still kind of just figuring

everything out. Everything's new to

them. Unlike many of them, this uh

letter is not actually written by Paul.

Paul's the famous kind of author for a

lot of these epistles. This one's not

written by Paul. It's written by

>> Peter. All right. Well done. We're

awake. Excellent. Okay, Peter. Very

good. So, these letters are from the

apostles to the early believers and

they're figuring it all out. They don't

have years and years of tradition. They

don't have kind of biblical study. They

don't have pastors who have gone to

Aadia University and have Are you from

Did you go? Nice. Um, the joke landed.

Okay, great. Right. They don't

>> Oh, yeah. Okay. Two, four. Nice. They

don't have Francis Chan. They don't have

CS Lewis, right? They don't have all

these resources to lean upon to

understand the Christian faith. So,

they're very much reliant on these

letters to help them in their

understanding.

Now, many of these letters carry one or

two messages. Either they are letters of

encouragement amidst some very difficult

times and hardship or most commonly in

Paul's case they are letters with some

candid correction for the early church

aka guys get it together what are you

doing now luckily second Peter okay

we're going to stay in the easy side

today second Peter is more of an

encouragement it's more of ancou an

encouraging letter it's a followup to

initial level an initial letter that he

sent you'll never be able to guess the

name of that one um and it's a it's

written to a series of churches and

believers across Asia Minor or what

would be modern-day Turkey and they were

struggling. They were struggling for a

few reasons. They had these these false

teachers and prophets that were kind of

rising up in their midst. There was a

lot of confusion amidst the church

because we know we have different voices

saying different things. And we know

from first Peter that this region is

also under some pretty heavy

persecution. So these churches or these

early believers are probably feeling

fairly overwhelmed on all fronts. And in

light of that, Peter writes them this

letter of encouragement. And the

encouragement that he offers them is

this. Embrace transformation.

Embrace transformation.

The response is almost strange. And I

can only help wonder what these early

persecuted disciples who are just

exhausted and are experiencing turmoil

would have thought when they got this

letter from Peter that tells them, hey,

embrace transformation. They need a

lifeline. They need a sense of hope. But

this is the highest form of

encouragement that Peter offers. But if

Peter is offering this encouragement in

the midst of that hardship,

transformation must be of some

importance.

And so as believers today who may not

necessarily be experiencing that

persecution in the same way they were,

but who may still need that or may still

have that longing for hope. What might

we learn from Peter's words for the sake

of our own journey with Christ? or

better asked, "What does meaningful

growth and transformation look like

according to Peter?"

When we contemplate that question, we

might find ourselves tempted to rush

down to verses 5 through 7, where we

find what appears to be a very practical

breakdown of what formation looks like.

Add to your faith goodness, and to

goodness, knowledge, and to knowledge,

self-control, and to self-control,

perseverance, and to perseverance,

godliness, and to godliness, mutual

love, and to mutual uh sorry, mutual

affection, and to mutual affection,

love. And we might sit here and go

through that checklist and kind of go,

"All right, got it. Got it. Got it. Oh,

self-control. Maybe not. Maybe not quite

yet. Maybe that's where I'm at." Um, and

I do think these are helpful for us to

kind of understand where we might be uh

experiencing God, where we still need to

experience God's growth in our lives.

But I don't want us to rush into these

verses because I think that before this

section on cascading traits, Peter

communicates a lot about the nature of

formation. He begins this passage like

this. His divine power has given us

everything we need for our godly life

through our knowledge of him who called

us by his own glory and goodness.

When it comes to opening statements for

a passage, this one's a powerhouse

because Peter has jammed a whole bunch

of ideas into one line.

He highlights several key ideas on

formation. He highlights first what the

pursuit of this formation is that we

would be able to lead godly lives. He

highlights how our story of formation

begins in response to him who called us.

And he highlights the way in which we

are sustained, provided for and guided

amidst our formation and growth by his

divine power. And in doing so, what

Peter is ultimately saying in some of

the opening lines of his letter of u

that is surrounding growth and

transformation is that transformation is

a divine process. A process in which God

is intimately a part of. He is saying

that when it comes to our growth, the

reality is that our development exists

at least in part beyond ourselves as

people. that we have no reason, no

guidance or no objective to grow towards

without the work of Christ. He continues

this association in verse 9 when we get

kind of the antithesis or the opposite

to what he's saying now. He says that

those who have no regard for

transformation are nearsighted and

blind, forgetting that they have been

cleansed from their past sins. And in

this we get the the picture that to be

in Christ or to be following Christ

means to be transformed. That these

things go hand in hand. And this is a

theme that we find all across the New

Testament. Ephesians 4:21-24

Ephesians 4:21–24

which is literally titled instructions

for Christian living says as such when

you heard about Christ you were taught

in him with important with accordance

with the truth that is in Jesus. You

were taught with regard to your former

way of life to put off your old self

which is being corrupted by deceitful

desires to be made new in the attitude

of your minds and to put on the new self

created to be like God in true

righteousness and holiness. And again,

we see those same ideas of initiation,

provision, and objective given to us by

God. As we consider transformation

amidst this passage, we find ourselves

comforted maybe that our growth isn't

entirely reliant upon us. That we don't

have to get all the circumstances right

or do all the right things in the right

timings in order to be transformed to

become more like Christ. But instead, we

find that this is a journey in which we

have been invited on in partnership with

God. A journey in which he started by

his work on the cross. journey that he

guides us through as he works us works

in us so that he can work through us. A

journey by which we might better reflect

Christ and better be ourselves according

to his design for us.

It is critical that in our own view of

formation, we we not make the mistake

that it is up to us or it is our own

doing that brought us there because we

might fall into this pitfall of thinking

that we have achieved a certain status

or a sense of purpose or a certain role

within our communities on our own

accord.

But this isn't the only thing that Peter

communicates to the reader in this

passage. This truth about God's intimate

involvement in our transformation is

also surrounded by a series of calls to

action

through the through these things. He has

given us his very great and precious

promises so that through them you may

participate in the divine nature having

escaped the corruption in the world

caused by e evil desires. For this very

reason make every effort to add to your

faith goodness and to goodness

knowledge. And he continues through

these traits we were just discussing

later in verse 10. Therefore, brothers

and sisters, make every effort to

confirm your calling and election that

you may participate in the divine

nature. And then two different instances

which should be sending all the alarm

bells for us of who repeated words,

repeated words, right? two different

instances of make every effort.

Alongside Peter's message to become

reliant upon the Lord in the case of our

growth, there is also a series of of a

call to our involvement.

And this might seem paradoxical at

first. This might seem like it

contradicts one another. But when we do

our best to hold these ideas in tandem,

knowing that they are both true, that

they are both good, we find that there

is room for our participation as well.

If we hold both of these things to be

true, we might conclude that even though

God initiates, sustains, and informs our

development, that does not mean that we

sit back in the proverbial lazy boy and

just wait to be like Christ. Well, the

spirit's doing his thing. I'm just going

to I'm going to sit here. here. I'm

going to wait it out and then and then

when I'm done, then when God's done with

me, then then he'll send me out. But

until then, I'll sit right here.

But instead, we take action to further

step into our relationship with Christ

by joining him in the story that he is

working in our lives. And so, while we

trust that God is working in us and

working through us, we have a

responsibility to play our part. Does

that mean that the Lord is dependent on

us? that he requires us to do these

things so that he can work that he's

barred from doing any work in our lives

until we are ready for it. No, God can

and still works through the heart. Even

of th those who have no regard for this,

right? Even for those of us who um are

distracted or more commonly too busy.

I'm just too busy to be worked on right

now, Lord.

When we take the time to create space,

engage with worship, practice rhythms of

faith, exercise our spiritual gifts, we

posture ourselves to better experience

him. And it is through that experience

of him that we we better realize our

design. In engaging with the creator, we

the created become more of ourselves.

Our own denomination explores this

apparent paradox between God's role in

our story and our own participation

through this idea of the trellis. I am

not a gardener by any definition. Okay,

you don't even want me to try to plant

anything.

But as I understand it that the trellis

is this wooden or sometimes metal

structure that helps to give support to

a plant as it grows, right? It holds it

up so that it can better receive

sunlight so that it can have more space

to grow and this way it helps the plant

to realize the fullness of its

potential. Does the trellis actually

grow the plant? No.

But it opens us up to its highest

potential. And in the same way, we don't

grow ourselves by the things that we do,

but through rhythms such as prayer and

scripture reading and spiritual

disciplines, through setting setting

ourselves up with a community of faith,

whether that be Sunday morning church or

like Michael was saying and kind of

pushing for earlier today, getting

involved with a small group, right?

These things matter. These things are a

big deal. By engaging in these things,

we cultivate openness within our hearts

and the spirit capitalizes on that.

God's continuous work within us or the

divine process and our participation is

the basis or the foundation for

formation.

It is also the basis for camping

ministry.

Camps like Peguyak exist because we

believe that while God is the only one

that actually grows us as people, as

leaders, as disciples, we have been

offered, invited, and instructed to

partake and participate in our own

development. And there's multiple layers

to that. Yes, we we think of camp as

here are some leaders that are

participating in the development of

campers, but we also believe that our

leaders, our camp staff are

participating in their own development.

and that we can teach our campers to

participate in their own development.

This is core to why camp ministry

exists. So why don't I unpack for you a

little bit more about that.

Earlier I mentioned we were or actually

probably didn't but Michael was me was

mentioning he took my intro remember

was mentioning that at camp we're doing

kind of this refining work right we're

going from we're finding ways to go from

good to great

and the reason we're doing so is because

we strongly believe that the changes

that we are making will help us to

better meet the needs of a changing

world and in turn and here's the goal to

be more infect to be more effective in

ministry and this has been an ongoing

process for us over the last year we've

been working on so many different things

but we're sticking to our core and

because we want to honor the last eight

decades in which formation and

transformation has already been

happening at camp pegak

leadership development disciplehip all

of that has been taking place already

but we want to find ways in which hey

hey how do we get a little bit better at

this

we recognize that a key element in this

refining process has been to revisit our

mission vision and values our previous

mission statement was very comprehensive

and that was great. Uh but amidst all

those details, it became really hard to

pick out, okay, what's the main thing

though? What's what's the main [snorts]

thing? And so when we go to make

decisions as a camp, um that that can

get a little tricky sometimes.

And so we want to make sure we're

keeping the main thing the main thing.

And so this fall that actually led us to

approve the following mission statement

that you'll see up on screen that Camp

Pegak exists to serve communities and

further Christ Church by developing the

whole person through set aart

transformational experiences.

Simply put, camp exists to develop

people and then to send people.

Sometimes it's easy for us to come up

with different definitions or

understandings of camp based on our own

experiences. And and this is where

camping ministry in general needs to do

better because we often have these

dynamics where man camp is so awesome

that it's indescribable.

So then how do you then go talk about it

with people, right? Um and we're trying

to close that gap. We're trying to

invite people more people into the

conversation. Sometimes we think about

man camp is a week of fun and a week of

memories. Sometimes we think of oh well

camp is for those who don't know Jesus

yet. uh or you know camp is a spot where

a kid would never go to church but that

kid might go to camp instead. And we

kind of reduce our definition or

understanding of camp to just these few

things. And while they may still be

true, is camp a memorable spot full of

fun? Yes, absolutely it is. Is camp a

spot that a kid who would never come to

church comes to camp instead?

Absolutely. We have almost the majority

of our campers are coming out of an

unchurched space, right? Is camp a spot

where kids who don't know Jesus at all

come and experience him for the very

first time? You better believe that

happens.

You better believe that happens because

summer 2025 at Camp Pegak existed. There

are 12 young boys and girls who had

never heard about Jesus before. I had

never had that personal relationship

with him. But now eternity is different

because camp meant something to them and

God used that process to develop them.

And now their life which is now eternal

is forever changed.

>> And so yes, we celebrate that. We

celebrate that.

But we also know that camp is doing so

much more at the same time because as

much as there was those 12 young boys

and girls, there were still 186 other

campers, 20 volunteers, 20 staff who all

engaged with formation

throughout our summer. Whether that be

because somebody was investing into them

or because they were learning the

rhythms of leading themselves,

participating in what God was doing in

their own lives. And we celebrate that,

too.

And now those young people have returned

to their churches, through to their

communities, to their schools,

and now they're on camera, I guess.

Sorry, I just I found that both of our

camera operators today are camp.

Um, that that joke was for me, not for

you guys.

Uh, what I hope that you take away from

this morning, church, is that camp is

far more than any one of these reasons.

And it's far more than the sum of them

as well. Camp is so important because

formation of the whole person, not just

spiritually, of the whole person happens

at camp in the way that it doesn't

happen anywhere else. We are unique in

the way that we get to invest into

people. And here's why. When a kid or a

youth comes to camp, they will

experience a Christ-c centered community

that is focusing on on helping them to

discover their design. They experience a

temporary community where they feel like

they can try new things and fail in

front of everyone cuz they might not see

it see anybody ever again. They

participate in novel activities that are

constantly inviting them out of their

comfort zone. They experience daily

rhythms of prayer, Bible reading, and

teaching, exposing them to God's story.

They experienced nearage mentors of

faith who are a living example of what

faith might look like in the season just

beyond where they're at now.

They experience intentional reflection

where their experiences sink in for long

lasting impact. They experience the

wonder that God has placed in their

hearts as they step into nature. They

experience freedom from the social

pressures and expectations from home

that we know are growing and growing and

growing in our in our young people's

lives.

Folks, camps is camp is built to help

young people grow to help people of

every age grow. And we at Pegak are hard

at work to better live into that

potential.

What are we up to be beyond the summer

the kind of this past summer that you

see highlighted in the the handout that

you found on the in the chairs and I

have more of of those. If if you're

interested in in taking one with you,

please do take one with you. What are we

up to? So, we've recalibrated our

mission and vision and values to help us

better focus on cultivating

transformation. In summer 2026, we are

launching a whole new lineup, completely

brand new lineup of programs for our

campers, all the way from ages six all

the way up to volunteering. Um, and

these programs not only are tuned to

their specific age groups, but they're

tuned to their specific de developmental

needs depending on where they're at in

life. They're also integrated into one

another so that a camper coming in

summer number one has a continuous

journey when they come back for their

following summer.

We're evaluating our facility and we're

asking ourselves big and difficult

questions about its suitability. Not

just because we want it to be safe as as

much as we want it to be safe um but

because we want it to be a space that

like does is this a safe roof over a

head? Yes. But more than that, is it a

space that helps fulfill our mission?

We're tuning our staff culture and the

attitudes and beliefs and the ways that

our staff operate and they have been an

absolutely fantastic gift amidst this

process. We're we're building a

leadership pipeline so that we have a

consistent train of leaders because we

recognize we're a sending place where we

have people come in for either a week or

a summer or a few summers and then they

are being sent into the next season of

life.

Amidst all the things that camp is, camp

is not a replacement for church.

It is not a replacement for church. As

potent and the as the impact that

happens at camp is, camp is temporary.

And that's part of why it's so trans

transformational. We are the immersive

intensive, but that isn't sustainable

long term for anybody. We say come and

get away to a place away from the noise,

away from the pressure and expectations,

away from home. Come encounter the

living God in changing ways. And now go

back. Go back having been transformed to

be that light in your community, to be

that leader in your school.

We are the intensive. We're the

temporary. But ultimately, what every

disciple needs is a permanent community

to come home to. And church, that's you.

That's you.

So ultimately, we need to be in

partnership with one another. We do

things that the local church can't do.

just because of our context, because of

our circumstances, we have an ability

and a flexibility to invest into people

in a way that the church can't. But we

cannot be this temp this permanent

community. And that's ultimately what

our young people need as they return and

are now processing the things that

they've experienced and the things and

and the ways that they are now

different.

And so we need your help. And that's a

big part of the process of going from

good to great for us is how do we get

closer and closer with our partnering

churches.

And as much as we need your church's

partnership, we also need your support.

Both you as a church, yes, but also you

as an individual or as a family, we need

your prayer.

If camp is a place of transformation and

we believe that transformation only

comes by the power of the Holy Spirit,

then we need you to pray. Pray that as

kids step into what is often an entirely

unfamiliar

unfamiliar place with unfamiliar people

that they will experience love,

belonging, and that will allow them to

begin exploring, trying, and discovering

who God has made them to be. Pray that

our staff team who works almost

constantly throughout a week of camp not

only has the energy to make it through

the week but has the wisdom to meet

their campers where they're at and to

help them take that act of faith of

participation.

Pray that the Lord would be would bring

out more and more campers so that this

region might be better transformed and

better impacted by the leadership of

these young people who we know are

interested and capable to lead.

We also need your generosity. Finances

are often an uncomfortable topic,

but let's just call a spade a spade this

morning, okay? And recognize that in the

world that we live in today, mission

costs money.

That's our world. Mission costs money.

As you hear about the wonder and the

potential of camp, what you might not

realize is that in order for camp to

operate for a year, it costs almost

$225,000.

That's staff. That's food. That's

electricity. That's insurance. That's

every that's that's food in stomachs.

That's activities played with.

Now, if we were in this camp thing for

the sake of just running a business, we

would go, okay, well, that's how much it

costs us to run for the year. So, let's

take how many kids that we have coming

in the summer. Right now, our capacity

is 268. An easy division to find out how

much it will cost each kid. Not a big

deal. We'll just charge every kid $839.

And all the parents in the room

know that that's not practical for most

and completely not possible for for

many,

but we would have met our costs. And so

what we do and what we have done for

years is that we set our registration

fee as a subsidized fee. For every

single camper that attends our program,

they are subsidized

to less than half the cost of what it

actually costs us to have them and host

them. And so, even though it's a

terrible business strategy, like the

business people in the room are kind of

starting to square them on me right now,

terrible business strategy, we'll admit

that it's intentional. It's done on

purpose. It's done for the sake of

mission because we believe that what

camp will do for people or more

accurately people who give believe what

camp will do for young people. I need to

take just a a quick aside here for a

moment and say if you are a regular

donor to us at Camp Peguak, thank you.

You have created an avenue for kids to

come to camp in ways that you may not

have even thought of.

You are directly responsible for

creating an avenue for them to come in

at an affordable rate. What has happened

with your giving is that where we should

have set our prices at $839

like that price tag, you have

effectively stepped in with your giving

to go charge them less. Charge them a

rate that they can afford and I'll make

up the difference. I'll make a path for

them.

And that's not even speaking to our

sponsorship fund, which is designated

for those who can't find can't make up

the the money for our registration fee.

For every single one of those campers,

your giving has meant a week of

belonging, of love, of community, of

opportunity, and of course, growth.

For some that growth was small, small

tangible steps towards knowing

themselves, towards knowing their

creator. For others it was drastic. A

complete change in behavior, a complete

change in attitude. And for others

that growth and change was eternal. And

they will never be the same because of

it. Because we subsidize the cost for

every one of our campers. We only c we

only cover around half of our annual

expenses in our registration through our

registration fee that that guardians and

parents pay when they send their kid to

camp. Meaning that we have around

$100,000 that we need to find every year

in order to help camp not only sustain

but to continue to grow.

And this summer we are moving to what's

called a tiered pricing system where

parents will have the opportunity to

select different levels of subsidy um so

that those uh who may can maybe are able

to afford a bit more are given the

opportunity um to pay a bit more. We

suspect that our fundraising needs will

be effectively the same because we often

deal um with families that don't have a

lot of expendable income. uh and we want

to make sure that they have a space and

an avenue to come to camp as well. While

things like rentals and um grants

certainly play into the picture, we're

looking at some at our 2026 year and

we're going, you know what, there's

probably about $60,000 that we need to

find still in in donors and in giving.

And we do it all amidst the whatever

stress that it might bring um all the

work that it might entail because we are

convinced of what God does in and

through camp.

And this is part of the growing pains of

going from good to great.

And in order to do that, we need your

support. If this morning as we talked

about the the mission of camp and kind

of some of its biblical foundations, if

that has captured your heart and you

feel the Lord prompting you to become a

donor, I would be more than happy to

have that conversation with you after

the service. We would be overjoyed to

receive your one-time gift, whether

that's through e transfer, via check,

and I can give you all the details you

need on those things.

But if you are looking for the avenue

that helps us best, would you consider

becoming a regular giver? We have an

avenue of giving called pre-authorized

giving in which you have the opportunity

to uh give a selected amount at whatever

interval you're most comfortable with.

And that's huge for us, especially as a

summer ministry because we often see a

lot of money in and money out come that

spring season. But the reality is we

have year round expenses. Uh, and so you

can really help us mitigate some of

those year- round costs uh by signing up

to be a automatic giver, pre-authorized

giver. I have forms with me today if

you're interested. I brought 10 with me

and I would love to leave with none.

Um, and so if you're being prompted, if

you feel that the spirit is pressing

upon you that today, if you have

experienced the transformation and

potential of camp in your own life, in

the life of your kids or your grandkids

or the neighbor down the street that

used to be really annoying, but now

they're kind of chill, right?

If you've experienced God working in and

through camp,

then would you consider doning, be

becoming a donor?

As we close this morning, I hope that

you've gotten a sense for who we are,

what we're up to, and why we do it. Why

we do it. There are so many camp stories

all the time, and I'd be delighted to

share many of them with you. My favorite

one is actually included in our 2025

snapshot. That was kind of a highlight

moment for me. Um, so come and connect

with me after the service. Uh, as we

continue to gear up for summer 2026, we

would love for you to stay informed. We

are we're on Facebook, we're on

Instagram. That's the fast way you're

going to get updates. If you're

interested in becoming uh someone who

receives regular update emails for us,

from us, um we have an email list. Uh

and that's been reworked over the past

year or so. So, if you're like, I used

to be on that, but now I don't get them

anymore, come talk to me. I will get

your email onto that list so you can

stay up to date as well.

So, as we close, would you consider

helping us be a partner for us in

mission? Whether that be to be the

community that campers, volunteers, and

staff come home to, whether that is to

be a prayer warrior for us, or whether

that is to champion um financial giving

as well. Would you help us to make every

[snorts] effort? Let's pray together.