from your staff at Redwood Glen

With Jay Nordgaard's departure as Executive Director at Redwood Glen, Marshall Coleman, our Associate Director, will be providing monthly updates and reflections about the camp and our ministry.  Please keep him and the staff in prayer as they continue our mission of reflecting Christ by serving others.  Please also keep the Board in prayer as they consider applications for the new Executive Director.  For more info, click here.

 

 

Don't you just love change?  No? I do.  I always have.  I always think that there is a better way to do something, say something or prepare for something.  And when I find the "better way" I am content and, then, after awhile I start thinking, "There's gotta be a better way."

When I was younger, I worked in an ice cream shop.  I was trained on how to make about 20 different ice cream sundaes.  It was a tremendously busy shop and it struck me how not even one sundae ever looked like the pictures on the menu.  The training I received was more about expediency and cost control then about customer perception.  My mission became to change the way I made my sundaes so that every sundae I produced would look just like it's namesake in the menu, plus I would do it without losing any time in making it.  Once I met this personal challenge I was fine for awhile, and then I decided that I needed to show others what I knew.  I didn't want to change anything about the ingredients or design a new sundae.  I just wanted our customers to see exactly what we were telling them to be looking for.

Jesus Christ came into this world to show and to tell humanity that what was told them would be happening exactly as they were told it would happen.  Jesus did not come to change anything.  He came to fulfill everything that God, the Father, had promised.

So, maybe it is not so much a matter of "change", but rather just a better way.

Redwood Glen is always looking for a better way to present the gospel.  It happens in our summer camp programs and by providing services and hospitality that is conducive to what God has for the campers and guests who come here for the purpose of getting to know Him better.

As we close out the 2009 calendar year, would you consider partnering with Redwood Glen financially?  Would you prayerfully consider if God is calling you to make a year-end donation that will assist us in covering the cost of building His kingdom.

The staff of Redwood Glen - Carl, Christina, Yessenia, Chino, Jessica, Peter, Rob, Antonia, Chuy, Chad, Larry, Loma, Ginny and Marshall - wish you a very MERRY CHRISTMAS and a new year filled with His blessings!

In His Service,
Marshall Coleman
Associate Director