To rally, equip and deploy Bay Area Youth to serve in the Kingdom of God as a Biblically-sharpened and spirit-filled positive influences to win souls for Jesus Christ through transformed lives.

Encounter Bay Camp is a Christian Summer Youth Camp with the purpose of preparing young people for the adversity they will face in their formative years to adulthood. The camp provides an environment to equip the youth with foundational teachings toward a growing relationship with Jesus Christ and to provide them wit a memorable and life-changing experience.

Encounter Bay Camp is a collaborative partnership of local Bay Area Christian churches that seeks to unite Bay Area youth in fellowship with Jesus Christ. The youth between the ages of 12-21 gather for a time of Biblical teachings, powerful praise and worship, and fellowship between like-minded believers in Christ Jesus.

Encounter Bay Camp is a time for young people to experience passionate praise and worship, form lasting friendships through fellowship with others, and learn how to deal with life challenges from a Biblical perspective, and gain spiritual refreshment, renewal and transformation through the Love of the Lord.

Encounter Bay Camp's purpose is to ground the youth in God's Word while inspiring them to live for Jesus Christ. The camp will feature powerful, relevant and entertaining messages that lead the youth to have a meaningful understanding of God in their lives, their relationships with family and friends, and to live lives rooted in faith in Jesus Christ. The camp will also include small group sessions to provide a more interactive setting to discuss what was learned and minister to each other in an atmosphere of prayer and meditation. In addition, workshops dealing with topics such as sexual purity, prayer, worship, family, and the power and influence of the media, will be presented to address specific needs of youth believers.

Monday, July 25, 2011

God Wants You Free From Worries

Matthew 6:25"
"Therefore I say to you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink; nor about your body, what will you put on.  Is not life more than food and the body more than clothing?"

Is you heart full of worries about your health, finances, family or future?  Even when all is well, some people still worry because they have heard others say, "You should worry when everything is peaceful because something is wrong when the devil leaves you alone."  So they worry even when there is nothing to worry about!

But Jesus does not want you to worry about what you will eat or drink, or about your body and what you will put on your back.  He tells you not to worry about your daily provisions because God, who is your heavenly Father, knows that you need all these things and He wants to add these thing to you. (Matthew 6:32-33)

God is the same God who took care of the children of Israel in the wilderness, feeding them with manna every day for 40 years! (Exodus 16)  Under His care, His people had no lack.  When the people wanted meat for dinner, He simply rained quails on them (Numbers 11:31-32)  The children of Israel only had to pick them up.  If they had gone to  look for meat themselves, they probably would not have found any in the desert.
The problem with us today is that we think that we must do something to help ourselves.  Some of us may even think that it is easy for Jesus to say, "Don't worry.  Take no thought for your life," because He does not understand the problems we face in life.

But the truth is that Jesus understands the problems we face in life.  In fact, He faced what I would call the "final problem" - death.  Death is the "final problem" because it puts an end to all our other problems.  Jesus faced death at the cross, conquered it and rose from the dead.  And because He conquered the problems of problems, we can trust him when He tells us not to worry!
You don't even have to worry about your salvation...Jesus took care of that...JUST BELIEVE!!!

God Loves You and I Love You!  Pastor Erwin

 

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