April 18 2023 Vol 23.3

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Sacred Heart Catechism
Tres Dias Men
Tres Dias Women
Nazarene Ministerial Candidates

LET'S PRAY TOGETHER

Last month I reported the the log jam was over at the SBA. Well, that didn't last long. They are questioning whether our flood insurance coverage is enough. Keep this matter in prayer.

Please continue praying for CGC's Chaplain, Bob McKenzie. The latest on his heart condition is that his heart needs time to heal. There's not a routine treatment option.

Never tire of making our requests known to the Father. We are not begging. We are making our heart transparent. God's will be done.

PRAY FOR:

We are in the final weeks of fielding a team of interns to participate in our Summer Small Group Experience. www.surveymonkey.com/r/CGCIntern20
Summer Camps are almost upon us, kicking off with Family Camp on May 28 continuing through the first week of August. Pray for the lives God will change as the Good News is presented to thousands of children and teens!

CONTINUE TO PRAY:

Pray that TEN BUCKS A MONTH Club continues to grow in support. TBAM is a very important part of our plan to repay the SBA loan once we begin making payments. You say," $10 won't really make a dent." I say, "Tell that to the $2,004 already coming in each month!"

Access to an excavator with a grapple. This goes a long way to help us deal with the lifecycle of our mature trees and wooded areas. It also is a necessary part of maintaining our creek. We can do A LOT in a few hours. (6-12 days/year)

Still need 2 well-maintained golf carts. A side by side would also work.

The floods have always taken out golf carts, and something else always takes priority when it comes to replacing them.

Still praying about funds to get the Youth Chapel back on line.

We have a group coming that will be cleaning up the Youth Chapel in an attempt to use it as an open air pavilion for camps this summer!

CGC

Newest "Condition Monitoring" Point for CoCoRaHS in Tennessee

Dickson 9.1 WSW Station Number is TN-DC-36

CGC is the newest collection station of The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS).

CGC's Chef Rusty Hertzler saw on the evening news that CoCoRaHS wanted to add more collection sites in Tennessee. Rusty thought being a collection point "...looked like it might be fun and with our history of floods I thought it would be interesting to see exactly how much rain we do have and compare it to how the creek rises."

CGC is one of 11,000 such sites in the nation. CoCoRaHS operates in the US, Canada, and the Bahamas.

The network’s volunteers provide weather and climate observations through daily comments, significant weather reports, and condition monitoring reports. Designed to meet a need for local information about drought events and their impacts, “condition monitoring” was initiated as a pilot project in North Carolina and South Carolina in 2013 and launched nationally in October 2016. Volunteers regularly report on how precipitation, or a lack thereof, affects their local environment and community by ranking current conditions on a seven-point scale ranging from severely dry to severely wet and sharing observations through written narratives.

Pay for meals. Plenty of dormitory space available. Add your name to the waiting list for a lodge room. Click HERE..

Am I Praying For the Wrong Thing?

by Finley Knowles

Recently God nudged me as I was praying a familiar prayer. I've been praying for funds to build a new dining facility for CGC for several years now, but on this day I thought my focus may be too much on money instead of the real need.

Sometimes when praying for the same thing over a long period of time, I find my words mundane and my motivation muddled. Prayer seems to come off my tongue more out of habit than passion. I'm thankful our Father shapes our prayers as we pray, so we pray for the right things with the right attitude.

God has restored passion to my praying. What a gift!

Truth is, we need a new dining hall more than we need money. Our current dining hall, Creekside Café, is in the floodplain. We've spent in excess of $600,000 since 2019 trying to restore to usefulness what two floods keep destroying.

The dining hall is the most frequently used building on campus.
The dining hall contains the most expensive contents of any building on our campus, so when flash flooding occurs, we have large expenses to replace commercial equipment of all kinds.
Funds spent on flood recovery can't be spent on the bread and butter of the ministry of CGC.
As I pray, my sense is that more floods are in our future. I'm not a prophet (or the son of a prophet), but we have all seen the increased occurrences of disastrous weather events. Christians and Christian organizations are not exempt from these tragedies.

My conviction for the sake of stewardship is to have a plan to build a new dining hall well out of the flood plain. The money that we save in flood repairs over the years will pay for this. The financial drain of natural disasters has put a hurt on your beloved campground.

The "dining hall" we have in mind is a multipurpose building that replaces all of the buildings in the floodplain, i.e. offices, conference room, Youth Chapel meeting space, and Snack Shack.

My years of service at CGC have been characterized by floods and pandemics. We can't do anything to prevent pandemics, but we can get our buildings out of the floodplain. I want better for my successors!

GOD provides

for His purposes in a

variety of ways.

It is not possible

to pin GOD down and say,

"This is how it's done."

Click HERE to go to the online application.

TBAM pays for the brick and mortar aspect of being ready for the next generation of campers and retreaters

The Ten Bucks a Month Club (TBAM) directs your gift toward the most pressing need of CGC: a Dining Hall at an elevation out of the floodplain. TBAM is the easiest way to give on a regular basis. We can do this as we all pitch in a little!