When We See as God Sees

Rick Grover, the featured speaker for the 2007 Christian Heritage Conference held here over the Memorial Day weekend, said, “When we see as God sees, we will do as God does.” The theme of the conference addressed reaching out to meet the physical and social needs of those who are hurting in our communities. It was touching to hear how Christians respond to those in distress around them; sheltering the homeless, counseling women in crisis pregnancies, operating a food cupboard, offering assistance after a disaster.

It is refreshing to consider what God sees when he looks at Wi-Ne-Ma Christian Camp. I am sure He sees the individual campers coming to a place where they can experience His love and respond to His call upon their lives. Do you suppose that He looks beyond the clothes, the hairstyle, the attitude, and the behaviors to look upon hearts open to receive Him? I think God also sees a community of people from Camp staff to a host of volunteers who work hard to find ways to present the Gospel of Christ significantly to a fresh generation. Also within God’s range of vision is certainly the hearts of those who faithfully hold up the Camp with their prayers and with their gifts.

1 Samuel 16:7 says, “The LORD sees not as man sees; man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart.” May God help us to look past the outward appearance to see and minister to the hearts of those who come to this place.

We are in the midst of the summer camping season with about 500 registrations so far. Time is counting down to the remaining Family and Adult camps and conferences. We do appreciate your prayers and enthusiasm for what God has yet to do in the remaining weeks. Please continue to pray for us that having seen what God sees, he will strengthen and equip us to do as He would do.

We would like to also announce that a basic design for the Missions Building has been agreed upon. A sketch will be portrayed in the Windchime coming out in the next two weeks. We are also evaluating bids for a geotechnical survey of the building site. This survey needs to be done to prepare for the blueprints. About $169,000 has been received so far towards the Missions Building project.