Monk's Musings: Job Well Completed!
Beacon Bible Camp
So the wall was completed on the twenty-fifth of the month of Elul… They realized that this work had been done with the help of our God. Nehemiah 6:15-16
As I write these lines, yesterday was our last day of the last camp of the Summer Season at Beacon. The Lord has helped us complete the task He gave us to do this summer! When the Jews completed rebuilding the walls of Jerusalem about twenty-five centuries ago, they, and all the nations around them recognized it was because God had helped them. And we also freely admit that it has only been possible because God has helped us. In addition, Nehemiah only succeeded in completing the wall because many volunteers worked wholeheartedly until the project was completed. And the same is true for Beacon. More than 200 volunteers joyfully gave a week or more of their time to love campers, challenge them to trust in Jesus and build them up in their faith. We thank God for each one of you.
Now that life returns to “normal”, God has other projects for us all to work on. He wants to use each one of us to build up our family, our friendships and our local church. Perhaps you are facing “ruins” similar to the ones Nehemiah had to deal with. Take courage, God is powerful to restore and rebuild. He specializes in bringing beauty out of ashes. But He chooses to work through you and I. Let us do as Nehemiah and his contemporaries did: pray and work together. Don’t let the enemy discourage you, for “greater is He who is within you than he who is in the world”. God has promised to complete the task, so let us “trust and obey” Him.
So may we all be encouraged, as we enter this next chapter of life, to continue serving the Lord where He has placed us. And we encourage you to make Beacon a part of your “building plan”: Invite a friend or a family member to come with you to one of our camps, whether as a couple, or as a family, as a single adult, as a senior, or indeed encourage and sponsor someone else to come to Beacon. Look up the details on our website, and register this week!
On behalf of all the Beacon Staff,
Andrew ‘Monk’ Nunn