CAMP SIX

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TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Camp One Summary ....................................................................................... 3

Overview .......................................................................................................... 4

Session One ..................................................................................................... 5

Session Two ................................................................................................... 13

Session Three ................................................................................................ 21

Session Four .................................................................................................. 23

Supplies List and Materials ........................................................................ 27

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CAMP SIX SUMMARY:

MISSION: Enable family members to know what is worship, how do we

worship, who we worship. Begin to worship as a family.

EMPHASIS: Family worship

FOCUS SCRIPTURE: John 4:23 "But the hour is coming, and now is,
when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for
the Father is seeking such to worship Him. "God is Spirit, and those who
worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

ULTIMATE GOAL: Upon returning home, families will continue

disciplines from Camps One, Two, Three and Four and Five, as well as,
make worship a family lifestyle.

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CAMP SIX OVERVIEW:

SESSION ONE:

Welcome Activity ..... Welcome, Camp 5 Review, Testimonies, Songs, Family Huddle
Teaching ................... Sin
Game ......................... Rules--Basketball Game.
Story ......................... Boxing Basketball Story
Game ......................... Strength and Weakness
Game ......................... Obstacle Game
Game ......................... Imitators Game
Illustration ............... Worship comes from within.
Teaching ................... What is Worship?
Teaching ................... Who is to Worship?
Dismissal .................. Family Huddle, Homework

SESSION TWO:

Welcome Activity .....Welcome, Review Session One, Homework Discussion

Media ........................ Camp Songs
Skit ............................ Woman at the Well
Teaching ................... When do we Worship?
Teaching ................... How do we Worship?
Teaching ................... Where do we Worship?
Illustration ............... The Components of Worship?
Dismissal .................. Family Huddle, Homework

SESSION THREE:

Welcome Activity ..... Welcome, Review Session Two, Review Components of Worship
Activity ..................... Worship
Dismissal .................. Homework, Family Huddle, End of Session

SESSION FOUR:

Welcome Activity ..... Welcome, Review Session Three

Camp Seven .............. Go you into all the World
Dismissal .................. Homework, Family Huddle
................................... End of Session Four of American Family Camp Six and Seven

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SESSION ONE:
Camp Six Main Idea:
Worship

Key Scriptures:
John 4:23 "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will
worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship
Him. "God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

Session One Main Idea:

Rules/Law/Heart. What is Worship? What do we Worship? Who is to Worship?

[REVIEW: Camp Five]

SLIDE 1.1
Review Confession.
Ask if someone has testimony about previous camp and how confession worked in
their weekly family time at home.
If a friend of yours in another family asked you what you did during family camp
weekend about confession how would you explain the benefits of your confession
teaching in your family?

[SONGS: Camp Music]

SLIDE 1.2

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[FAMILY HUDDLE]

SLIDE 1.3
Lord we thank you for the opportunity to be at Family Camp 6. Lord we ask you to
open up our minds and our hearts and show us what you want us to learn about You
and Your Word this weekend. Lord we thank you that we are here safe and we ask
you to keep us that way through our weekend. Lord teach us all what we need to
know about confession and show us how to work with our family as you would have
us do.

[RULE REVIEW]

SLIDE 1.4
{Have slide with rules and go over the rules of the camp.}
FAMILY CAMP RULES:
1. Families stay together.
2. Families must participate in all family activities together.
3. Families pray together.
4. Families must attend all family camp sessions together.
5. There are no rules.

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[BASKETBALL GAME]

SLIDE 1.5
{Go outside to the basketball court. Appoint two people as captains. Have the
captain choose teams. Start the game. Don’t call the game basketball. Let them
figure out what the game is by having them on a basketball court and giving them a
basketball. If they ask about what the rules are tell them to figure it out for
themselves. Let them play according to the rules they know. Let them play and have
fun playing their game. Disrupt the game by breaking the rules. As teams play
game someone runs from off the court and grabs the ball and shoots the ball. Not
following the rules. Not dribbling the ball. Throwing the ball to anyone they wish.
Taking over the game.}
Question?
How do we know how to play the game?
How do we know the rules?
What was wrong with playing the game without the rules?
Is it still basketball?

[Boxing Basketball Story]

SLIDE 1.6
When I was in high school my PE coach was also my football line coach. Tough guy,
always coming up with an idea for us to have fun, get tougher and in better shape.
He came up with the idea that we could play basketball with each player having one
boxing glove on a hand while using the other hand to handle the basketball. Now is
this basketball? No! These were not the rules of basketball, which is why he called
it boxing basketball. See, it is ok to change the rule, but just call it what it is. Don’t
try to make it the same game. It’s not the same game. Call it a new game and agree
on the rules.
The rules show us our strengths and weakness.
Romans 5:20 “God’s law was given so that all people could see how sinful they were.”

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[GAME: Strength and Weakness]

SLIDE 1.7
{Have Hoola Hoops ready and ask for everyone who can make a hoola hoop work to
raise their hands. Then ask who cannot make a hoola hoop work to raise their
hands. Call a family forward and give each one a hoola hoop. Tell them to work it.
Some will be able to hoola hoop well and others will not. What is the difference?
Everyone has their strengths and weakness. Is it the fault of the hoola hoops that
we cannot make them work? No! The hoola hoops only allowed us to see our
weakness; they didn’t cause it.}
[Sin is in our way. It uses what was for our good to make us do wrong.]
Romans 7:13 "But how can that be? Did the law, which is good, cause my doom? Of
course not! Sin used what was good to bring about my condemnation. So we can see
how terrible sin really is. It uses God’s good commandment for its own evil
purposes."

[OBSTACLE GAME]

SLIDE 1.8
{Make paper airplanes. Hand out paper to each family. Have them write their
family name on their plane. Stand them all on one side of the room and see whose
airplane flies the longest time. After all airplanes are on the ground, point out that
no one's airplane is still in the air.}
Stand them all on one side of the room and see whose airplane flies the longest time.
After all airplanes are on the ground, point out that no one's airplane is still in the
air.}
Why is this? What law makes the airplanes come back to the ground?
Law of gravity.
Does this mean that the Law of gravity is wrong?
No, it is just a law. No matter what you think it is still a law. No matter how much
you would like to fly and stay in the air you are going to come to the ground. You can
come up with any plan or scheme but you will have to deal with the law.
If you don’t want to follow the law of gravity and you just don’t want to follow the law
then just go to the top of a tall building and jump. What will happen? You will face
death. Death from our rebellion to the established law. The law of gravity points out
our weakness.

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Does this mean that the law of gravity is bad or should be eliminated?
No, we cannot eliminate it so we have to learn to live with it.
Sin uses the law to condemn us. It makes us feel guilty or like failures. When really
the law just points out the weaknesses in us and we must grow and learn how to
change our character to do what is right.
[The rules are not the trouble—We are the trouble.]
Romans 7:14 The law is good, then. The trouble is not with the law but with me,
because I am sold into slavery, with sin as my master.

[IMITATORS GAME]

SLIDE 1.9
{Have everyone find a partner. Have an adult with a child. Have them face each
other and have the adult be the leader. Ask the leader to perform an action and the
person in front of them is to follow the action as performed. Continue doing things
and following. Ask:}
What are we doing? We are imitating.
Who are we as Christians supposed to imitate? Jesus
Why? Because God sent him as his son and God himself to become flesh to be an
example to us here on earth and to defeat sin and death. Then who is better to
imitate than Jesus so that we can defeat the sin in our lives.
You can make your children obey your rules when you are around, but how do we
accomplish getting our children to obey the rules and not have to experience the
consequences of their rebellion when we are not around?
[Worship comes from within.]
Matthew 15:8 "The people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain."

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[GAME]

SLIDE 1.10
{Have a member of the audience come up and ask you to play catch with a
basketball. When he asks, tell him you are busy, but you really want to spend time
with him. Let your lips do some talking but demonstrate that your heart is not in it
by your inability to perform.
Have him call up another member of the group who demonstrates that he wants to
play catch. Enthusiasm.}
Can you see the difference in the two people?
The one gave lip service and the other showed by his actions that he really wanted to
do the task.
Worship is a lifestyle. God wants us to worship in the good times and the bad times.
[Who sets the rules?]
Who sets the rules? Who set the rules of basketball?
God set the rules over our life.
2Samuel 22:31 As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the LORD is proven; He is
a shield to all who trust in Him.
God sets the rules:
Whether we like the rules or not, they are the rules.
God’s rules are the law and are the truth.
Get in line with the law or face the consequences.
What happens if we jump off of a building to defy gravity? What happens if we defy
Gods law? Death

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[TEACHING: What is Worship?]

SLIDE 1.11
Romans 12:1 "Therefore I urge you, brethren, by the mercies of God, to present your
bodies a living and holy sacrifice, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service
of worship."
Worship is the attention that we give to what we value the most.
Worship is an activity of the human soul. Everybody Worships something.
How do you know what you are worshiping?

Questions?
Where do I turn when I experience a crisis?
When I am hurting or afraid, to whom do I go?
When I have a financial problem, whom do I want to tell first?
Where do I seek comfort when I am under stress or discouraged?

Worship is about time, energy, affection, allegiance, belongings.

[TEACHING: Who is to Worship?]

SLIDE 1.12
Psalm 86:9 "All the nations you have made will come and worship before you, O
Lord; they will bring glory to your name."
God’s master plan is that all humans will find Him and worship Him.
Matthew 15:8-9 "These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far
away. Their worship is a farce, for they replace God’s commands with their own
man–made teachings."
Jesus said this to the Pharisees—the religious leaders of his day!!

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[End of Session One]

That ends Session One of Camp Six. We will have breakfast tomorrow morning at 9
am and will meet back for session Two at 10:30 am. We will discuss: How we
worship, when we worship, where we worship.

[FAMILY HUDDLE]

SLIDE 1.13
{Have slide of Family Huddle come up and gather your family to pray. Do not tell
others what to do. Lead by your example. Pray with your family.}
Let’s have a Family Huddle. Let’s pray that God show us this weekend how we have
missed the mark. Let’s ask God to open his Word to us this weekend and bring it into
our hearts so that we may have the wisdom and understanding that we need to run
the race He has set before us. Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to help us to correct
ourselves. Let’s thank Jesus for giving his life to that our sins can be forgiven and
that we have no condemnation or guilt.

[HOMEWORK]

SLIDE 1.14
Discuss with your family what we have learned in Session One. Discuss:
What is worship?
Why do we worship?
Who do we worship?

Return tomorrow morning ready to discuss your conversations!

CONCLUSION OF SESSION ONE

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[CAMP SEVEN]

SLIDE 4.4
Camp Seven Main Idea:
To take what you have learned and share it with others.

Key Scriptures:
Mark 16:15 "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation."

Discussion:
We have been through six camps which have taken almost two years. So the
question is, “What are you going to do now? What do you do with your hard work?
What do you do with your new habits?”
What does God say that you should do with it? That’s right, give it away.
In Mark 16:15 Jesus tells his disciples, “God into all the world and preach the gospel
to all creation.” They were kind of in the same place that we are if you think about
it. They had spent three years following Jesus and learning from Him and now His
time was over and it was up to them.
We have worked hard for two years. Some successes and some failures. But, always
working to this end. Now it is time to make a decision. What are we going to do?
Well, we will end Camp Seven of American Family Camp with some homework that I
strongly encourage you to do.

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[HOMEWORK]

SLIDE 4.5

Who in this room has ever been on a mission trip? {Wait for a show of hands. If no
one has ever been on a mission trip, then use as an example a mission trip that you
have been on.}
{Questions}
When did you go on a mission trip?
Why did you go on a mission trip?
Where did you go?
What did you do?
What did you get out of it?
How do you set up a mission trip?

This is your homework. The ones of you who have been on a mission trip, help the
others that haven’t. I encourage you to do something big. If possible, go out of the
country and really do something big. You must set this up and do it yourselves. I am
not going to do it for you. Share the responsibility. Don’t just have a few people set
this up. Work as a group and as a family. Leave no one out. Discuss, prepare and
achieve the goal to share with others. I can participate with you and help you any
way I can, but I want you to set it up.

When you have completed this Camp Seven Homework, I want each of you to return
to your church, speak with your church leaders, show them what you have
accomplished and set up a family ministry in your church. I will help you to do this.
You have all the material and you just need to do it for all the other families that
need it. And they all need it!

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[FAMILY HUDDLE]

Now let’s end our Family Camp together with a Family Huddle. Pray that God use
you and what He has taught you in His word. Pray that we gives you vision and the
way to follow through. Pray that he never let’s you forget to do your camps in your
family.

[DISMISSAL]

Now go and do your Camp instructions. Do them in your families for the rest of their
lives. Make sure that your children do these things with their children. Teach
others in your church about Family Camp and don’t get stuck! Go into all the world
and preach the gospel to every living creature.
It has been our pleasure to spend this time with you. We hold it dear. We look
forward to hearing of your successes as God guides you in His work and service.

CONCLUSION OF CAMP SIX

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