More than 15 years ago, I became the Barnabas Mentor Coordinator. Having been equipped in mentoring and discipleship before coming to Joy El, I quickly developed a training for our Barnabas mentors. We have added many supplemental seminars through the years, but the foundational mentor training has remained basically the same. A few years…
Volunteers are so eager to share every time a child begins a relationship with Jesus, so we can rejoice together with the angels in heaven. While that is certainly more than enough reason to celebrate, I often ask, “How is God working?” when visiting a Bible Adventure (BA) program because I know that He is…
Today we began our first day of summer camp 2022. We have seen a significant increase in registrations for this summer. We are on pace to have the most campers ever in a single summer. There are an estimated 12,000 camps in the United States alone, and 62% of them are residential. Joy El is…
Perhaps the greatest error we can make is to not know the scriptures or the power of God. Jesus seems to think so when he rebukes the Sadducees. “Jesus replied, ‘Your mistake is that you do not know Scriptures, and you don’t know the power of God’” (Mk 12:24). Think about that. Where could we…
“To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven.” Ecc. 3:1 This verse comes to mind at the change of every season. This spring brought a lot of excitement to Joy El. Registrations started coming in at record pace, weekly reports from Bible Adventure and CIA telling of increased participation…