
Dear brothers and sisters,
Yes, camp is coming!
I have been thinking about you and am eagerly
anticipating the time we will spend together in LA. Then
Bao and the Hope LA team has been joyfully preparing
fully for our camp. We are all excited with what God
will do.
Today let me share two things with you as our camp draws
near. First, here is something that Bao shared that
impacted me. (He knows that I am going to quote him)
"We wanted camp to be of course about our Core Values.
We also wanted people to depart from camp impacted by
God’s Word by strong teaching great relationship
building, and being in God’s presence.
Most of all, we wanted to bring Jesus to the forefront
of this Camp as it is solely about Him - His Work and
Personhood. We want people to leave astonished, in awe
of , and boasting about Jesus and the cross after 4 days
of worshiping and learning together. From even our times
of learning about The Core, Jesus can be the hero of
those messages and ultimate the Hero of our churches.
From this angle, we pray that God would use the program
to ignite affections for a great, loving, awesome Savior
and respond in humble service to be on mission making
disciples who love Him and planting churches for Gospel
expansion." Bao
Isn't that a good word? We so love Jesus. As followers
of Jesus, we will gather and honor Him.
Secondly, let me share an encouragement for those of us
who may be new to church camps. God's Word in Lev. 23:4
teaches us about the annual feasts. This was a annual
spiritual feast when the people made effort to join in
the festivities as one people under God. Our church camp
is like the annual feast when we unite together to meet
God, to meet our self and to meet each other.
We unplug from the weekly routines to plug into to God.
Jesus calls us to "come aside into a desert place, and
rest a while" (Mark 6: 31). We enjoy spiritual
alignment. The vision is declared. The Word is taught.
The prophetic direction moves us forward. We gather as
Hope North America once a year as one connective church
family. This is always good.
Finally, can I ask that you help forward this message to
our people in the Hope NA family. Thanks for spreading
the word : )
Continue loving Jesus. Look forward to spending some
time together this July.
Loving Jesus and loving you,
Pastor Ben
Regional Director
Our first church in North America started in Seattle in
1988. Our movement, which has been described as
“Evangelical-Pentecostal” first started in Bangkok,
Thailand in 1981. Today we are in 35 countries all
around the world. We are passionate about planting
churches and igniting Christ followers in North America
and all over the world to do the same.
We’ll be delighted to have you visit us in one of our
locations soon!