Archive for February, 2010

Power House Adopt-A-Camper

Published by
Char Chandler
at February 21, 2010 in Uncategorized. 0 Comments

This is our second year we will be doing our Power House Adopt-A-Camper campaign!! You may say, what!? Power House, say what, say what!! (A little too much Hannah Montana!) Power House was able to send 16 kids to camp last year and this year we are pursuing to send 16 kids again that may not ever get the opportunity to go if it weren’t for a program like Power House Adopt-A-Camper. Adopt-A-Camper is when we partner with these Power House kids who were exceptional students at each of our Power House sites to help them achieve the goal of raising the funds needed to attend kids camp.

You may wonder why Power House is so excited to have these kids experience kids camp??!! We see how each of their lives are affected by attending Power House one time a week. Imagine if you will what it would be like as a child to be saturated in the presence of Gods love for 4 1/2 days at camp, experiencing God on a whole new level..relying on Him for each physical challenge that is new and exciting and sometimes a little scary to someone who may have never experienced even being out of the city?!
Wow!!! What an incredible way to minister to a child, by partnering with them in a life changing experience!

We have some great way’s you can become involved in helping support this awesome cause!!

You, can make a difference and be a partner with these kids and Power House by attending our Flapjack fundraiser on Saturday, May 22nd from 8:00 AM-10:00 AM at Applebee’s in Grandville off Rivertown Pkwy at 4488 Potomac Ave.
Tickets are just $6.50 and include egg’s, bacon, all the pancakes you care to eat and your choice of beverage.

Tickets must be purchased in advance!!
Contact Char @ (616)261-3778 or charc@reslife.org for ticket’s.

Keep posted for future updates of events that you can be involved in to support Power House Adopt-A-Camper.

You can have influence in a community..

Published by
Char Chandler
at February 16, 2010 in Uncategorized. 2 Comments

I once heard that it takes a community to raise a child. Think about that statement! Look around the communities you live in, drive through, and what’s going on in each one. You can tell when a community is interested in its youth.

It’s so wonderful to see when a community embraces a child, their gifting, their talents, and their interests. I have seen neighborhoods that have gone from run down with graffiti to cleaned-up neighborhood gardens and a community arts center for kids right here in the Grand Rapids area. I also have seen that it was a local church that took an interest in the community where they have felt God has planted them.

The bottom line is Jesus makes a difference in all of these areas I have mentioned. With out the love of Christ we would never really win in life.  Sure, you may have what the world may call successful or rich.  The fact is Solomon had all the wealth and things many things man may consider all you could want, wish for, dream of and more.  But there is only one thing that can fill that empty spot and that’s Jesus. Solomon talks about that in Song of Solomon in the Bible.

At Power House we are able to partner with a community for their youth, to help them raise up a generation of winners. Winners, you may ask??!  Yes, winners!  When these kids that we minister to receive Jesus, they also receive so much more. We train and equip these kids for successful, meaningful, and purposeful lives. Power House is only powerful because of the One who has sent us…God!

Jeremiah 29:11
For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.

We share this message with the kids we minister to. They are more than what society has told them they are.