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Camp Discovery decorating creates an exciting, immersive environment for children. To transform your space into an outdoor adventure, we suggest getting started early by asking volunteers in your congregation to share their artistic talents with your VBS program. Our decorating videos and Director Guide help you with tips and comprehensive supply lists.

Check out our trees in Opening and Closing to create your wooded forest! For more helpful decorating tools, visit vbs.cph.org.

At Camp Discovery, our mushrooms, evergreen garlands, and pinecones create great centerpieces for your craft tables. We also suggest using finished crafts to inspire your campers with visual cues as they complete their crafts.

Learn more about Camp Discovery, Concordia's 2015 VBS, at https://vbs.cph.org/2015.

Camp Discovery’s Bible Challenge is a Concordia exclusive, where campers are challenged to memorize Scripture by digging into God’s Word, solving Bible code, participating in science-fun activities, and singing verses put to song. At Bible Challenge, they’ll connect the Bible story, memory verse, and Take-Home Point to their lives and have fun with a new science activity at each lesson.

Learn more about Camp Discovery at vbs.cph.org.

At Camp Discovery, Chester the squirrel makes his VBS appearance from within his Nutty Hollow puppet tree! Learn more about how to set that stage for Chester's grand entrance in your Director Guide.

Visit https://vbs.cph.org/2015/ for more decorating helps!

At Camp Discovery, simple gingham tablecloths can turn your multipurpose room into an outdoor picnic! Combine them with our campfire stand-up and rainbow pennants to get kids excited for yummy treats around their tables. Our Camp Discovery Director Guide gives you easy instructions for framing your snack tables with tree-inspired uprights and colorful flowers made from plastic bottles!

Learn more about Camp Discovery at vbs.cph.org.

At Camp Discovery, our backdrops can easily transform your VBS space into a welcoming campground. These handy scenes easily and quickly convert corners and hallways into full camp sets that engage kids with the Bible story.

VBS ceiling decoration is a snap at Camp Discovery. Learn more at vbs.cph.org.

At Camp Discovery VBS, we provide you many helps for easy decorating embellishments. Our five woodland animals are easy to mount onto foam board. With an easel attached, stand them up around your site to create a friendly set. Cozy up to one of our stand-up campfires, or use our jointed pine trees to line a hallway.

Learn more about Camp Discovery, Concordia's 2015 VBS, at vbs.cph.org.

How are we defined? Are we defined by the world, the church, by our experiences and choices? Are these just influences and that there is something more that gives us our identity?

Intelligent Animal Antics

How intelligent are animals? Can they be taught to understand simple sentences? We’ll answer these questions on today’s Creation Moments Minute.

While debate continues about whether chimps can actually learn to communicate with language, there is little question that they understand simple sentences. However, this doesn’t prove any relationship between man and apes. Research also shows that dolphins and sea lions can learn language.

Dolphins also have a few other tricks up their, um, fins. They try to hide from tuna boats by not jumping when a tuna boat is near. If this doesn’t work, dolphins will swim on the right side of the boat because the cranes and nets are usually on the left side.

As one scientist put it, animals are as smart as they need to be, no more and no less. When God made the animals, He was generous with something He has an unlimited amount of – intelligence.

For Creation Moments Minute dot com, I’m Darren Marlar.

Ref: Shannon Brownlee. 1985. “A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery.” Discover, Oct., pp. 85-93.

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Here is another one especially for ministers. It’s a challenge to actually teach the faith we have been given through the restoration of biblical doctrine and catechisms, which have been broadly abandoned today. The piece also proposes a number of areas of theology, ethics and discipline for churches to teach.

I will put this article up at my holiness and reform website https://www.holinessofthebride.com. The site is an open invitation to join us in reform, and provides many informative resources.

You can read the full text of this piece on pdf here: https://www.holinessofthebride.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Faith-Statement-Restoration.pdf

To support our work towards holiness and reform in the Body of Messiah and in the greater community you can go here: https://www.holinessofthebride.com/donate-2

Lord, please restore the Body of Messiah in godly teaching and lifestyle.

Knowing the time was fast approaching for Him to depart this world, Jesus spent His final hours with His closest friends. As the disciples sat with their master, unaware of what would soon take place, Jesus served them, taught them, and prayed for them.

In this new 12-part teaching series, Lessons from the Upper Room, Dr. Sinclair Ferguson paints a vivid picture of the disciples’ final moments with their Savior. Carefully walking through John 13-17, Dr. Ferguson reminds us of the centrality of Christ in all of life.

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What is keeping you from praying? Satan does "steal, kill and destroy." (John 10:10) What often is keeping us from praying is not the enemy, but ourselves. This video will challenge you and encourage you to be praying. Uploaded with Permission.

Do your prayers seem to hit to ceiling? Do you often wonder if God is listening? Often times our doubts, sin, and world around us gets us believe our prayers lack power. This message encourages you how to empower your prayers once again. Uploaded with Permission

Does your prayer time lack meaning? Do you meet with God and realize you want your prayer time to be deeper and more fruitful? Part 2 will answer these questions and more. Uploaded with permissions.

Are you a new believer who needs training on prayer? Have you been a believer for a long time, but realize your prayer life is hurting? This series is for you. It will challenge, encourage and strengthen you spiritual walk with God. Uploaded with permission.

We explore the difference between leaning on our love for God and leaning on His perfect love for us,

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Join the congregation of First Presbyterian Church of Perkasie Pennsylvania as we worship the Lord by his Word and Spirit. We sing the great hymns of the Christian faith from the original Trinity Hymnal of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. Pastor MacLaren's sermon is "Christianity Confronts Paganism." He is assisted in the service by Joseph Waggoner (Hymns), Rebekah Waggoner (Pianist), Heidi Wolfskill (French Horn), and Mike Taraborrelli (Guitar). Pastor MacLaren alson accompanies on the trombone. First Church is a member of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. The Rev. R. Scott MacLaren is the pastor.

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