Spring Retreat Recap
By Briana McCullough
Call of Duty: Spiritual Warfare was an amazing weekend filled with fun, food, games and worship. It was definitely a faith-starting and/or renewing weekend for me and many others.
Ephesians 6:12
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms.”
Who is God?
Friday night we started off with Josh Hallahan was telling us about our God that we serve and love. We were taught that our God is our Creator, Pursuer, and Father. God fights for us and protects us. Lastly God Forgives and Redeems us. We ended of the night with ice cream sundaes and a game of “Find Your Team’s Puzzle Pieces.”
Prayer
Saturday morning we woke up to pancakes with sausage. Chapel in the morning was about prayer. A bunch of campers acted out Acts 12 and I must say it was pretty well executed! Leah Palamaro and Dave Hallahan shared prayer testimonies they had experienced. Josh ended chapel with telling us to pray constantly and expectedly. The classes and seminars were about expressing your faith, finding your spiritual gifts, different ministries you can become involved with, making good choices with food and superheroes: our strengths and weaknesses.
That day for lunch we had my personal favorite meal: chicken patties. During the day we played “Wawa man” on the soccer field. We were also divided up into our teams and were sent out to do different obstacles like crossing the lake, going through spider webs, army crawling, blowing up and popping balloons, and an obstacle course. We had a nice dinner of spaghetti and meatballs for dinner.
Devil
Saturday night’s chapel was on the devil and how he is the enemy. We learned that the devil’s goal was to just get us to turn away from God and stop following God’s path for us. Also that the devil is the prince of this world, and is very deceiving. But that the devil also has his doom sealed for hell and will suffer. Ending the service we all laid hands on Julio and said a prayer for him and Jen as he was leaving for Haiti that night. We ended this night with playing “The Lost Platoon” and eating some funnel cake.
Holiness
Sunday morning we had bacon and french toast for breakfast. And ended with good old pretzel roll sandwiches. Our closing chapel was on Holiness. Josh explained it by saying we have to stand apart and glorify God in all things we do. nd lastly that faithfulness is also an act. We got a surprise phone call from Julio, telling us how Haiti was. Then we packed our bags, said our goodbyes and headed home.
Faithful Hearts
By Karin Krause
Dear family,
This is the first of hopefully many more devotions to come. My name is Karin and I have been going to Delanco since around fourth grade. I am now a junior in high school. My hope with these devotions is to help myself and others grow in faith. Delanco has helped me so much throughout the years, and now I hope to give back with my writing. I consider you all my family because we are all brothers and sisters through faith.
Broken hearts are something I have noticed greatly affecting my generation. I do not mean the troubles that come along with the ending of relationships. I am referring to a divided heart. It seems that is so hard for us to just stay true to who we are. High schools seem to tell us to try to fit into certain groups and go along with certain styles. We cover up our thoughts to satisfy others. I wonder why this is. How are we going to make another happy if they are also disguising their self to please us? It seems that it is an unending chain of masks. Where is God in all of this? He is one of the subjects that is commonly hidden from our peers. Many teens are even afraid to mention their religion.
We all have our own voice and our own opinions. We have to be able to be brave and express them to strengthen our faith. We should not be afraid to show who we really are because no matter what God loves us. As Christians it is our duty to be examples. If we start showing who we really are we will have united hearts and our faith will shine. This is something that I am praying for. The Bible supports me in my struggles with these verses,
“Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart to revere your name. I give thanks to you, O Lord my God, with my whole heart, and I will glorify your name forever.” Psalm 86: 11-12
I think this is a good prayer for everyone to pray because in these hectic times it is crazy for everyone to give God their whole hearts. This verse leads one to think about how and why are our hearts divided. We have to be steady in our beliefs for our heavenly father.
Fall Retreat 2009 | MAD: Make a Difference
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Attention Junior High and Teen campers. Have you signed up for our Fall Retreat yet?
We’re having another one this year from Friday, Oct. 9, to Sunday, Oct. 11.
The senior high deans are Jen and Julio Nieves and the junior high deans are Dave Hallahan and Leah Palamaro.
This retreat is open for those who are in 7th to 12th grade and it will be $75 per student ($100 for walk-ons). It’s the first retreat where you’ll be able to pay and register for your camp all online (thanks to the wonders of PayPal).
Living on purpose
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By Kim Zayac
This year at Delanco, the theme for Teen II was “Living On Purpose.” We were taught throughout the week to be “rebels” for Christ, because, quite frankly, not many teens our age are doing that. We were taught to stand out in our faith, and live “on purpose” for Jesus.
We spent the week in classes that were taught by Jenny and Jon Falcone, Julio and the Rambos. Each class had a different theme. Jenny’s class was about promises and John’s was about listening. In the Rambo’s class, we were taught more about Uganda and what they would be doing to serve God in Africa. And in Julio’s class, we talked about our futures and what we thought our purpose in life was.
In Jon Falcone’s class, we had to sit and listen to the silence for ten minutes. When he asked us to do it, right away I was like, “Oh yeah, this is going to be so easy.” I was really surprised at how increadably difficult it was to just sit and listen. I was constantly thinking of something else, my mind drifting. Or something would catch my attention and I would lose focus on what I was supposed to be doing. Listening to the voice of God is a really difficult thing to do, but John told us with practice, we’d be able to do it. Now I’m looking forward to just shutting up and listening 
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Personally, I think the highlight of my week was the service on Wednesday night. Upon entering the Tabernacle, we all had to pick up a stick or a log outside and bring it in with us. I remember thinking, “What the heck?” But at the end of the service, we were told that the log was representitive of the thing in our life that held us back from giving God our all. The log stood as a symbol for the piece of your life that you weren’t willing to give up to God. Then, once we left the Tabernacle, we were supposed to go down to the fire ring and burn it. And Scott Rambo said, “Once you put something into fire, it can’t come back.” It was just a really emotional experience for me personally, and I feel like it helped me grow in my faith. Letting go of something in your life that’s holding you back can be so relieving; the pressure from it just disappers once it’s gone. And letting go and giving into God is the most awesome feeling, and I definitely felt that during the week at camp.
Teen II this year was, in my eyes, a huge success. We all had tons of fun playing the night games and in planned rec. The devotionals and services were great, Jamie Damm was an awesome speaker and I believe that every camper got something out of the week. The verse on our T-shirts for the week was 2 Corinthians 5:5, which says; “Now it is God who has made us for this very purpose and has given us the Spirit as a deposit, garunteeing what is to come.” I encourage everyone who was at camp this past week, and also those who weren’t, to live for a purpose, and to live for God.
Skating Delanco Camp
We don’t have a skatepark at Delanco (unfortunately), but that didn’t stop teen camper Matt Rossett from getting a little creative last week on the shuffleboard court. The video below captures an ollie Matt managed to do over an oversized soccer ball.
Teen 2 recap
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By Sarah Herman
As the summer slowly comes to a close, there was the second and last, week of teen camp. Its theme was “Living on Purpose” meaning we, as Christians, should stand out among the world, be rebels for Christ, and truly live with a purpose of serving Christ. The deans were Steve Tucker, Julio Nieves, and Jen Nieves (though still Tucker to me). They did an amazing job with the week and put together an incredible staff.
The speaker was Jamie Damm and like I said, spoke on “Living on Purpose”. One night was all about being rebels for Christ. He played us a song called Rebel by Lacrae; which was all about how if everyones doing the things of the world, it’s no longer rebellious to sin! If you wanna be a rebel, go out and live for Christ, cause no one’s doing that. Jamie also spoke about how we need to live out our faith at home, and some practical ways to stand out.
The games for the week consisted of the familiar; amazon men, musical boys, pirates, duck duck wham, wawa man, and then some other games like; an army based game, the ever-so-fun toothpick game (haha-ask someone that went about that game), and many many more.
Overall the week was a total success (in my opinion at least). It was great to hang out with friends, play fun games, and overall grow in God and learn amazing things about Him.
If you didn’t get a chance to come out to Teen camp this summer, come to one of the Retreats! The first one is taking place in October, and it will also be a great time.
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