{"id":5953,"date":"2021-05-27T12:12:05","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T12:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/?p=5953"},"modified":"2021-05-27T12:20:40","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T12:20:40","slug":"encouraging-camp-stories-from-the-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/encouraging-camp-stories-from-the-past\/","title":{"rendered":"Encouraging Camp &#8211; Stories from the Past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Betty Bernardo made her way to camp as a little girl because her pastor, Robert Dasher, encouraged her to go. \u201cLutheridge stole my heart that first summer,\u201d she shared. Betty continued attending summer camp as a camper and then served as a counselor for three summers. \u201cI met my best friend at camp. My daughters went to camp and I always try go back for reunions.\u201d Betty went on to teach mathematics, and often found herself wishing the children in her classroom could experience a week of summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery child needs that experience \u2013 a place to take off the mask.\u201d While in our world of covid today that means something quite different, it remains the way Betty thinks about it. \u201cChildren need a place to drop the facade of being the cool kid or a place they aren\u2019t known as the poor kid, or whatever label the world gives them. Children need a place of unconditional love and acceptance. In all my years teaching, I have seen so many children who need that. It is so heart-breaking to not be accepted. That is why I contribute as much as I can to the ministry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5956\" src=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" srcset=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Simpsonwood-Betty-Tanya-7-7-06-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2560px) 100vw, 2560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Betty\u2019s life was changed the day her pastor encouraged her to go to camp. She found unconditional love and acceptance and continues to make it possible for other children to find the same. We invite you to think about the children in your neighborhood or community who might need that same message of welcome and acceptance. Encourage them to attend a week of summer camp.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Encouraging-Camp-Stories-from-NovusWay-Ministries.pdf\">Encouraging Camp Stories from NovusWay Ministries<\/a> PDF Download to use in your church.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betty Bernardo made her way to camp as a little girl because her pastor, Robert Dasher, encouraged her to go. \u201cLutheridge stole my heart that first summer,\u201d she shared. Betty continued attending summer camp as a camper and then served as a counselor for three summers. \u201cI met my best friend at camp. My daughters<a class=\"excerpt-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/novusway.org\/encouraging-camp-stories-from-the-past\/\" title=\"ReadEncouraging Camp &#8211; Stories from the Past\">&#8230; Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5954,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45,44,33,31,35,30,32,71],"tags":[],"featured_image":{"full":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967.jpg",1008,1028,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967-294x300.jpg",294,300,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967-768x783.jpg",768,783,true],"large":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967-1004x1024.jpg",1004,1024,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967.jpg",1008,1028,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967.jpg",1008,1028,false],"news-post-feat-image":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967-395x403.jpg",395,403,true],"post-thumbnail":["https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967-125x125.jpg",125,125,true]},"acf":[],"fimg_url":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/Betty-Lutheridge-1967.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novusway.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}