Making All Things New 2013

Hi, my name is Dan Bell and I’m serving this summer as the seminarian at Camp DeWolfe! We’ve had an amazing time over the past few weeks in Christian Formation, which takes place twice a day throughout each camp session. We gather every morning and evening in St. Luke’s Chapel to offer our praises and prayers to God, and to learn more about what it means to be God’s people.

This year we’re focusing on the theme “All Things New” and reflecting on some of the many ways that God wants to do a new thing in our lives. Campers are having the chance to consider the fact that God not only created us but also wants to recreate us by making us more like Jesus Christ. To help campers understand this, they’ve taken part in many fun activities as part of the chapel program. For example, they’ve worked with clay to think about how God the Potter wants to shape them into new people, and they’ve run in t-shirt relay races as a way to act out what it means to be newly clothed in Christ.

It’s been an incredible privilege for me to direct this summer’s Christian Formation program at Camp DeWolfe. I’ve had the opportunity to work with awesome counselors and staff as together we’ve sought to make God’s love known in word and deed, all the while having loads of fun! As our time draws to a close (we have one more week left!), I feel truly grateful to belong to the Camp DeWolfe family.”

Christ at the center