Michigan Camp Meeting 2024: As For Me and My House

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Michigan Conference of Seventh-day Adventists

What Kept You in the Church

Jennifer Landis

01 What Kept You in the Church

02 What Kept You in the Church

03 What Kept You in the Church

04 What Kept You in the Church

05 What Kept You in the Church

You are about to enjoy a presentation recorded at the 2024 Michigan Conference Camp Meeting held at Cedar Lake, Michigan.

We pray that the Lord will bless you as you listen.

Father in Heaven, we're so grateful that we have this special time to talk about life and how we can help young people and help kids get to know you because this is what you want.

You want to spend eternity with all of us, with us as families, as family units.

So I pray that as we share today and as we talk, as we share ideas, that your spirit would be with us to guide us and to lead us and teach us.

All right, so if you missed yesterday, yesterday I told you about this amazing book club.

Tomorrow we're gonna be talking about education and teaching tools, things that are really helpful if you're homeschooling your kids or even if you're not homeschooling your kids but you want to do some stuff outside of your schooling whether Adventist or public that can be a real blessing to them.

And so I'm going to tell you more about it then but just a little snippet.

My mom when we were younger and I know if you're here yesterday you heard this before my mom when we were younger wanted us to read really good Avenis mission story books.

Because if that's what your nose is in, that's where your heart is, right?

I loved missions growing up because I was reading amazing books all the time.

So she started this fantastic program where she said if you read 100 Avenis books, have to be more than 100 pages, and I think it started when I was like 8 or 10, you'll get $100.

So I was very excited and not really realizing that was a dollar a book.

And so that's a lot of books that I read.

But really what it did for me was it instilled in me a love for first our Adventist publication, which is a wonderful thing.

It also instilled in me a love for missions and it gave me amazing role models because as we talked about yesterday, we talked about the fact that you know I grew up in churches that had no young people around me.

And sometimes we worry that that might stunt, you know, our kids' growth in spirituality, or their growth in the church, or their desire to stay in the church.

I found my best friends in the older individuals of our church, they became my mentors, they became my best friends and still are today.

And, but even outside of that, I found more mentors and I found them in these books.

And so every day I'm sharing 4 different books, we're gonna choose 2 names and 2 people get to take a book home.

So we have the 2 that left over from yesterday.

We have a book about Desmond Doss written by his wife.

And it's basically, it's like The Unlikeliest Hero.

And this is a plus, it's also signed by Desmond Doss and his wife.

Then we have The Richest Caveman, and if you have not read this book, then I feel like I should require you to choose this book because it's so good.

If you start reading this book, you cannot put it down.

You see how God has taken a life from where Doug Batchelor was to where he is today.

It just gives you an amazing realization of the power of God.

Our 2 new books I'm gonna be sharing with you today, this 1 is called Project Sunlight.

And for avidness book lovers down the ages, this has just been a classic that has, you know, been on everyone's bookshelf.

It goes through a based on a true story event of, you know, someone that goes from not knowing Jesus at all to coming to Jesus.

And then it uses what we know about the future to kind of give an ending where Jesus comes again.

It's a beautiful story, and it gives, I think, a really real picture to young people How to get to know Jesus as a friend.

Beautiful book, really great for young people to read.

And this 1, friends, not a lot of people talk about this book, but it is so good.

I read it for the first time 2 years ago.

If you know anything about his books, excellent author.

He wrote Strangers in the Land, John Seeger's going to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's another excellent book.

I read it to my students in my classrooms every single year.

This 1 is entitled Brave Men to the Battle.

Raise your hand, have you read this book?

It's kind of story form, a little bit more history form, but it is all about the Waldensians and Huguenots.

And you will read things that you've never heard of before.

And you, when I read this book, every time I would finish a chapter, I felt like my heart was just melting because I was like, what they went through, first of all, I've never even close to experience, but like the persecution and everything, but I was so inspired to stand like they did.

And really, that's what you want for your kids.

You know, you want them to read these books of people that stood for Christ and be like, whoa, I want that.

Because what they do is they see how people were persecuted, and you know, they're probably not thinking, I want that.

But then they see how God delivered them.

And then these young people are like, wow, could this happen in my life?

All right, so I think we have names for everybody.

We need more numbers, because we have more people.

Anyway, as she's doing that, I'll just talk a little bit about what we're going to be talking about today.

We talked about how churches can be the nucleus of your life.

It was especially for me as a pastor's kid, but even if you're not a pastor's kid, it can be and it's really a beautiful thing.

But we talked about how the church can be the nucleus.

There's a lot of really great stuff there.

Today we're going to be talking about missions, and the importance of missions in a young person's life.

He's gonna be standing up and sharing with us a little bit as well.

I've been going on mission trips with him to Mexico and to Cuba for the last 9 years.

So he's gonna talk a little bit about that.

But I think we're ready now, we'll do this.

Series

What Kept You in the Church

02 What Kept You in the Church

Transcript

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03 What Kept You in the Church

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