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LET'S PRAY TOGETHER
Never tire of making our requests known to the Father. We are not begging. We are making our heart transparent. God's will be done.
PRAY FOR:
CONTINUE TO PRAY:
The floods have always taken out golf carts, and something else always takes priority when it comes to replacing them.
We have a group coming that will be cleaning up the Youth Chapel in an attempt to use it as an open air pavilion for camps this summer!
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CGC
Newest "Condition Monitoring" Point for CoCoRaHS in Tennessee
Dickson 9.1 WSW Station Number is TN-DC-36
CGC is the newest collection station of The Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow (CoCoRaHS).
CGC's Chef Rusty Hertzler saw on the evening news that CoCoRaHS wanted to add more collection sites in Tennessee. Rusty thought being a collection point "...looked like it might be fun and with our history of floods I thought it would be interesting to see exactly how much rain we do have and compare it to how the creek rises."
CGC is one of 11,000 such sites in the nation. CoCoRaHS operates in the US, Canada, and the Bahamas.
The network’s volunteers provide weather and climate observations through daily comments, significant weather reports, and condition monitoring reports. Designed to meet a need for local information about drought events and their impacts, “condition monitoring” was initiated as a pilot project in North Carolina and South Carolina in 2013 and launched nationally in October 2016. Volunteers regularly report on how precipitation, or a lack thereof, affects their local environment and community by ranking current conditions on a seven-point scale ranging from severely dry to severely wet and sharing observations through written narratives.
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Am I Praying For the Wrong Thing?
by Finley Knowles
Recently God nudged me as I was praying a familiar prayer. I've been praying for funds to build a new dining facility for CGC for several years now, but on this day I thought my focus may be too much on money instead of the real need.
Sometimes when praying for the same thing over a long period of time, I find my words mundane and my motivation muddled. Prayer seems to come off my tongue more out of habit than passion. I'm thankful our Father shapes our prayers as we pray, so we pray for the right things with the right attitude.
God has restored passion to my praying. What a gift!
Truth is, we need a new dining hall more than we need money. Our current dining hall, Creekside Café, is in the floodplain. We've spent in excess of $600,000 since 2019 trying to restore to usefulness what two floods keep destroying.
My conviction for the sake of stewardship is to have a plan to build a new dining hall well out of the flood plain. The money that we save in flood repairs over the years will pay for this. The financial drain of natural disasters has put a hurt on your beloved campground.
The "dining hall" we have in mind is a multipurpose building that replaces all of the buildings in the floodplain, i.e. offices, conference room, Youth Chapel meeting space, and Snack Shack.
My years of service at CGC have been characterized by floods and pandemics. We can't do anything to prevent pandemics, but we can get our buildings out of the floodplain. I want better for my successors!
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GOD provides
for His purposes in a
variety of ways.
It is not possible
to pin GOD down and say,
"This is how it's done."
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Click
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TBAM pays for the brick and mortar aspect of being ready for the next generation of campers and retreaters
The Ten Bucks a Month Club (TBAM) directs your gift toward the most pressing need of CGC: a Dining Hall at an elevation out of the floodplain. TBAM is the easiest way to give on a regular basis. We can do this as we all pitch in a little!
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PRAYER changes what we SEE...
and what we SEEK.
Each month CGC Chaplain Bob McKenzie prepares a prayer letter.
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