4/21/2008

The Life of a College Intern Hi, I’m Phil Lashinski.  I’m an intern at Luther Crest Bible Camp.  This is my blog…

Spring has finally arrived!! 

The snow has melted, the birds are singing, and the parking lot is no longer a giant mud-pit!  With the spring weather comes busy times at camp.  This past weekend, Luther Crest hosted three great groups!  Luther Seminary Interns and Supervisors stayed Thursday night, Women from Atonement of New Brighton stayed Friday through Sunday, and an awesome group of youth from Community of Hope of Rosemount!  It was a great weekend full of friends, food, fellowship and worship!

 

We have another exciting week ahead with a number of groups enjoying camp:

Envirathon – Wednesday

Swift County Human Services – Thursday to Friday

Shalom Lutheran Confirmation – Saturday

Key Club Leadership – Friday to Sunday

Rotary District Conference Youth Exchange – Saturday to Sunday

Fron Lutheran Church Council Workshop – Sunday

 

As the pace is quickening and the responsibilities are stacking up, I know my God provides rest!  Christ said “All those who are weary and heavy laden, come to Me, and I will give you rest.”  How great is that!?  Christ is my motivation and my refuge.  I can lay my burdens at His feet and I know He has taken them.  That is why I am able to do what I do.  I would crash and burn if I held on to all of my worries and stresses.  Thankfully my God freely takes them and now I am “Traveling Light.”

 

I would like to encourage those counselors who will be coming to serve this summer with a passage from Ephesians 4:1-16.  We will be working together as the Body of Christ this summer! How very exciting?!

 

Unity in the Body of Christ

1As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received. 2Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. 3Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace. 4There is one body and one Spirit—just as you were called to one hope when you were called— 5one Lord, one faith, one baptism; 6one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all.

7But to each one of us grace has been given as Christ apportioned it. 8This is why it says:
   "When he ascended on high,
      he led captives in his train
      and gave gifts to men." 9(What does "he ascended" mean except that he also descended to the lower, earthly regions? 10He who descended is the very one who ascended higher than all the heavens, in order to fill the whole universe.) 11It was he who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists, and some to be pastors and teachers, 12to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of Christ may be built up 13until we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.

14Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of men in their deceitful scheming. 15Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will in all things grow up into him who is the Head, that is, Christ. 16From him the whole body, joined and held together by every supporting ligament, grows and builds itself up in love, as each part does its work.

 

For those who have been called to Luther Crest Bible Camp, Summer 2008, you will be doing God’s work, and as a community of believers, we will grow in together in Christ as His Body! I cannot wait to meet all of you, and see some good friends for another great summer of ministry!  God’s Peace!

 

(I will be working on loading some non-winter pictures in the near future…)