Roar Camp Day 1

Each morning we are going to gather for a few minutes to help us prepare our hearts and minds so that we can be prepared for each and every kid that will come through those doors.

When Life is Unfair…God is Good!

I asked Lisa if there was an event in my life that was humorous and unfair. She said, “Umm, your whole life?” She was joking.

Story of the hand made boat:

Story of the hand made boat.

Exodus 1:

Exodus 1:5–6 NIV

5 The descendants of Jacob numbered seventy in all; Joseph was already in Egypt. 6 Now Joseph and all his brothers and all that generation died,

The story of Israel getting into Egypt a great famine

Exodus 1:6–14 The Message

6 Then Joseph died, and all his brothers—that whole generation. 7 But the children of Israel kept on reproducing. They were very prolific—a population explosion in their own right—and the land was filled with them. 8 A new king came to power in Egypt who didn’t know Joseph. 9 He spoke to his people in alarm, “There are way too many of these Israelites for us to handle. 10 We’ve got to do something: Let’s devise a plan to contain them, lest if there’s a war they should join our enemies, or just walk off and leave us.” 11 So they organized them into work-gangs and put them to hard labor under gang-foremen. They built the storage cities Pithom and Rameses for Pharaoh. 12 But the harder the Egyptians worked them the more children the Israelites had—children everywhere! The Egyptians got so they couldn’t stand the Israelites 13 and treated them worse than ever, crushing them with slave labor. 14 They made them miserable with hard labor—making bricks and mortar and back-breaking work in the fields. They piled on the work, crushing them under the cruel workload.

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Doesn’t sound very fair does it?

Life can be unfair. Sometimes we can feel like the whole world is stacked against us—like we got a bad deal. The kids coming this morning may feel that way too.

In your fours

When do you hear kids say, “That’s not fair!”

Today we will be exploring the truth that even when things are unfair, God is good.

One of the best ways to remind ourselves of this is to shout out truths that God has made to each of us.

For us as helpers and leaders this week I am going to give us one truth each day that we are going to say to each other.

When life is unfair it is important to remind each other who we are.

Gabe:

In Christ, who are you? A child of God

So I’m going to say, “Who are you?” And I want you to shout back, “A child of God.”

Who are you? “A child of God!”

When life is unfair, you are still a child of God. When life is good, you are a child of God.

Remember that today as you interact with these kids.

Now I want to break into our teams again and pray for the kids coming to camp today. Then when it is time to wrap up, I’ll pray and we will get going.

Nahum 1:7 The Message

7 God is good, a hiding place in tough times. He recognizes and welcomes anyone looking for help,

Pray that this would be a safe place for these kids.

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