Red Jeep Journal
August 6, 2017
What were you doing 50 years ago? I remember distinctly what I was going. It was my very first summer camp experience. I was a camper for the first time at Lincoln Lake.
I remember the chapel, which at the time was in a WWII-style Quonset hut building.
I remember the choruses we sang; “With Christ in the Vessel” and “I Know Who Holds the Future.” (I sang with all my little heart and I still love both those songs).
I remember my counselor who was a pastor.
I remember the burning question that I asked him about assurance of salvation.
I remember some trouble I had (It’s personal) and…
I remember the nice nurse lady who helped me.
I remember swimming in the lake and playing “find your counselor.” (He hid under a row boat– nimble fellow).
This week when the campers gather in their chapel at Lincoln Lake I will be their chapel speaker. I hope they have happy memories of swimming in the lake and sleeping in the cabin or Yurt with their buddies. I hope they have a good counselor. I hope the camp songs still ring in their hearts after five decades have passed. I hope they cherish the sweet story of the Cross over the years like I do. I hope are each of them are soundly and securely and sincerely saved and that fifty years from now Lincoln Lake will be a happy memory for them, too.
Ken Pierpont
Deckerville, Michigan
August 6, 2017