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Annual Report 2020 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 CYC DISCOVER the JOURNEY Sunset on Tautuku Beach @ 2020 Adventure Camp CONTENTS Big Country @ 2019 Hunting Camp Contents Report - Chairman's 4 I love what you do and the experiences that you Report - Manager's 6 give these kids. Keep it up!! - Camper's Parent Report - Ministry Camp Coordinator's 10 Report - Ministry Development Coordinator's 14 Report - Accommodation 16 Report - Camping Committee 18 Report - Facility Committee 18 Report - Family Camp 2020 20 Report - Farm 20 Ministry Camp Summaries 22 Memorial Minute for Lois Clark 30 Report - Financial 32 Proposed Budget 42 Annual General Meeting 44 Proposed Society Rule Changes 44 2 CYC WAIHOLA Annual Report 2020 Contents 3 Bubble Soccer @ 2019 Boys Winter Camp Chairman's Report What a wonderful hope we have and through the seeds of the gospel sown Thank you also to the volunteers who share as followers of our Saviour. It is a in their hearts, they may each discover give of their time freely to support our hope that is sure because it was gained and know the hope that is in the Lord staff with the work of the camps and by our Saviour’s death and resurrection Jesus Christ. campsite. and we are held fast in that hope by the power of God. Many of you have served on these The Lord has continued to bless the camps as leaders, cooks, directors, and camp with sufficient finances to It is this hope that we share with all speakers, and without your hard work continue the upgrading of our facilities. Blessed be the God and Father of our the young people who come through and sacrifice we would not be able to Even though the Covid virus has cut the Lord Jesus Christ, who according to our camps each holidays. This hope run camps, there would be no ministry. camping season short, our Lord has His abundant mercy has begotten us offers them something far greater than Your efforts are greatly appreciated. supplied for our needs through other again to a living hope through the anything this world has to offer them We thank you and look forward to a means to see us through the winter and through it, lives are changed and continuing partnership in this ministry. months. Thank you to all who have resurrection of Jesus Christ from the drawn into God’s family and become a contributed financially to support us dead, to an inheritance incorruptible We are very thankful for the ongoing part of His Kingdom. through the past year and especially we and undefiled and that does not fade efforts of our staff, Tim and Rochelle, are thankful for all the prayer support away, reserved in heaven for you, Abseiling @ 2020 Adventure Camp It is a privilege to be a part of this Sarah, and Heidi who has stayed on you give. It is the Lord’s work and He ministry which the Lord has blessed after the completion of her internship. delights to answer our prayers. who are kept by the power of God abundantly over the past year. We have Thank you all for facilitating the camps, through faith for salvation ready to seen good numbers of campers at all dealing with the paperwork and As to the future we do not know what it be revealed in the last time. our camps with encouraging numbers ongoing legislation around running the holds and we may be entering unsettled of campers showing interest in the camp and it’s many activities, keeping times, but we can be assured the Lord talks and wanting to know more. As the campsite operational and being the will be with us as we serve Him here, 1 Peter 1:3-5 [NKJV] always the fellowship and fun had at face of CYC to the many outside schools holding fast to His Word and the task these camps will have created lifelong and groups that use our facility. He has set before us. memories and our prayer is that Russell Harrex Society Chairman Swingbridge @ 2019 Junior Tramping Camp 4 CYC WAIHOLA Annual Report 2020 Chairman's Report 5 Beach Campfire @ 2020 Adventure Camp Manager's Report Throughout the Bible we have spend Eternity?”. This sermon was Lord and Saviour to nearly 300 campers the phrase, "from everlasting to crucial to Arthur deciding to tell others has been the foremost highlight. For we know that all creation has been everlasting", to describe God. In 1 about his faith. It is estimated that he Chronicles it is used by the Israelites to wrote the single word “ETERNITY” Towards the end of our financial year groaning as in the pains of childbirth praise God for the Ark of the Covenant around five hundred thousand times in it did look as if a storm was gathering right up to the present time. And we arriving in Jerusalem; in Nehemiah it is chalk on the pavements around Sydney on the horizon ... and sorry I am talking believers also groan, even though used by the Levites in their confession over 35 years. He narrowly avoided about Covid-19! Our faith in the Lord looked as if it was to be tested with we have the Holy Spirit within us as a of sin before the Lord; multiple times arrest about twenty-four times. Each thoughout the Psalms it is used as time he was caught, he responded the beginning of the global pandemic. foretaste of future glory, for we long a phrase of praise to the Lord and in with a simple explanation: "But I had Without any great leaps of imagination, for our bodies to be released from sin Habbukuk the prophet cries out to the permission from a higher source". we can agree that camps are the and suffering. We, too, wait with eager Lord for justice using the phrase. gathering of people together from Likewise here at CYC Waihola we have different locations, and therefore lock- hope for the day when God will give us I believe that the phrase, "From an incredible privilege and "permission downs and social distancing do not go our full rights as his adopted children, everlasting to everlasting..." should from a higher source" to share our well together with traditional camps. Crafts @ 2020 Boys Summer Camp including the new bodies he has draw us, no matter who we are, to the hope, our faith and our destination for Here in the CYC office we started promised us. We were given this hope thought of eternity. And if our trust eternity with each young person that is in the Lord then eternity should graces our camps with their presence. looking and exploring other ways to when we were saved. (If we already be something we look forward to proclaim the Gospel though such things have something, we don’t need to with desperate and longing hearts as We should not take this privilege lightly. as digital camps. Thank the Lord that Our world is becoming increasingly here in June as I write this report we look hopefor it. But if we look forward to Romans 8:23 describes. However if we secular and hostile towards our Hope, to be coming out of the crisis without something we don’t yet have, we must do not know the Saviour then it should invoke a great fear and trembling Jesus. Even in Bible in schools, lessons the need for this digital resource as we wait patiently and confidently.) within our spirit. of morals and ethics devoid of a Saviour track towards running our July winter are required to be taught in order to camps as normally as can be. From the 1930s to the mid 1960s, a keep secular parents happy. Each year Romans 8:22-25 [NLT] graffiti tag simply saying ‘Eternity’ was what can be said is so eroded way that However as we see what the coming written in beautiful copperplate script it could be preached in any religious months (and possibly years) bring we with yellow chalk on the pavements of temple in the world without offence. must continue to trust in the Lord. Sydney everyday. Commuters arriving As Jerimiah 17:7-8 states: in the city each day would see the So therefore, we must treasure our opportunity here at CYC Waihola to Blessed is the man who trusts in the word freshly written, but never see the Lord, writer, and so, "The man who writes share the Gospel in all it's richness and truth - as a day is coming - as whose trust is the Lord. Eternity" became a legend in Sydney. He is like a tree planted by water, The Sydney City Council got so annoyed promised by our Lord - where we will be persecuted even within our own that sends out its roots by the Back road trekking @ 2020 Girls Horse Trek about the graffiti appearing every day stream, on their pavements that they got the gates for proclaiming with boldness this message of Hope and Life. and does not fear when heat comes, police to find out who was doing it. The for its leaves remain green, man, Arthur Stace, was found to be the Please continue to pray for each and and is not anxious in the year of perpetrator. Arthur, who had been an every camp we run here at CYC Waihola drought, alcoholic converted to Christianity, was - that the truth of the Gospel will impact for it does not cease to bear fruit. heavily influenced by a sermon soon the lives of all who come to our camps.
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