• Bonclarken Music Drama Camp (July 3 – 8, 2022) • Camp Bonclarken Session One (July 17 - 22, 2022) • Camp Bonclarken Session Two (July 24 – 29, 2022)
The applications for registration for campers will open on the Bonclarken
Website on December 6, 2021, for campers for all three of these camps. Sugges- tions for helping children come to camp: • Perhaps your church or circles, Sunday School Classes, etc., will help your children from your church to be able to come to camp.
• Maybe if you are a grandparent or parent, you’d like to give a week of
Church (or a church with fraternal relations with the ARP Synod), you may begin applying on December 1, 2021. Please consult the Bonclarken website or contact Trip McGill (
tripmcgill@gmail.com) for details. All registrations for all Bonclarken Camps and the Bonclarken Music Confer-
ence are handled online with Bonclarken. We look forward to seeing you next summer for one of our camps or the Music Conference or all of them!! Thank you again for your support of these camps and conferences, and we covet your prayers as we plan and prepare for what is expected to be another wonderful summer at Bonclarken!
Trip McGill is director of the Bonclarken Music Drama Camp, Co-Director of Camp Bonclarken, and Co-Conference Director of the Bonclarken Music Conference. He is also Organist and Director of Music at First ARP Church, Gastonia, NC, and is the former choral director at Ashbrook High School, Gastonia, NC
By Rev. Matt Kuiken
that exercises faith. What does this mean? Well, theologians often talk about true faith involving knowledge, assent, and per- - ciously accepts as pleasing to him. Think of a man who is drowning in the ocean, when someone tosses him a life preserver ring. He may know and approve the fact that this ring could save him, but until he grabs onto it, and personally depends on it, he has not fully expressed his faith. Without this faith – it is impossible to please God. So as we enter this season, God calls us to please him by exercising faith. This will look like making decisions for ourselves, our families and our church, that make no sense unless is calling us to exercise faith that pleases him:
W Worship
Starting each day by spending time in God’s Word and prayer may seem like a luxury that you can’t afford in your busy schedule, but it expresses faith and your need for God. Similarly, making it a habit to answer God’s call to worship every Sunday morning is an act of faith that trusts that your biggest need every weekend is not physical rest but spiritual rest.
Serve
Find someone or somewhere to serve in which you receive no credit or acclaim. Do it simply because God in Christ has served you. Do it believing that God can and does use you to advance His Kingdom and His Cause here on earth.
Give Jesus warns us that we cannot serve both God and money. Wealth and privilege are toxic to the human soul apart from the
in the Church and in the world. Give and watch how God provides.
Without faith it is impossible to please God. But with faith, God gives us the privilege of seeing him move and minister in ways that we never thought possible.
Rev. Matt Kuiken is the pastor of First ARP Church in Gastonia, NC. 28 The Associate Reformed Presbyterian
- til our eyes grow weary, serve until our bodies collapse - but without this one thing - we cannot please God. What is it? “And without faith, it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists
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