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Big Picture of Ministry

October 12, 2015
  • God's love and grace was illuminated this summer at Sunset Lake Camp. By the numbers:
  • 26,840 meals served
  • $26,699 raised for camper scholarships
  • 670 campers
  • 206 decisions for baptism
  • 155 first-time decisions for Christ
  • 150 campers attended because of scholarships
  • 93 hours of banana-boat rides
  • 84 pages memorized in one week for the evening drama
  • 80 awesome staff
  • 49 campers attended the first-ever Festival of the Arts
  • 12 baptisms at camp this summer
  • 7 epic performances of Illuminate, an originial camp play
  • 6 confirmed sightings of Jerry the Bear
  • 1 incredible summer
  • 0 campers turned away because they couldn't afford camp
  • 1,000,000 "Your glory fills the sky, a great and holy light, shining like a million stars, I'm amazed by who You are!"
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