Friday, January 9, 2009 ~ 11 Speakers + 5 Days + Over 10 sessions + the title ‘scientist’ + the Bible = The 2009 Creation Ministries International Super Camp!
CMI (Creation Ministries International) held a camp at PhillipIsland from Monday through to Friday, packed with session after session on Creation Science!Although I didn’t understand all the talks, I thoroughly enjoyed a) the speakers and b) the speeches.Some of the speakers included: Gary Bates, Carl Wieland, Jonathan Sarfati, Tas Walker, John Hartnett, David Catchpoole, Don Batten and Geoff Downes.Also at the camp were guest speakers Rob Carter, John Baumgardner, David Downs and John Sanford.Peter and Cathy Sparrow of the Creation Bus and Rod and Nancy Walsh of the Ark Van were there too. Many people came equaling a great week!
As I mentioned, I didn’t understand all the sessions… the ones on stars and tree ring dating went pretty much straight over my head, but I managed most of the others, some of the speeches* being:
Genetic Entropy - John Sanford
Logic and Christianity - Jonathan Sarfati
Alien and UFO’s - Gary Bates
A Brief, but True, History of Time - Mark Harwood
Egyptian and Hittite History - David Downs
Carl Wieland’s testimony - Carl Wieland
How Evolution Hurts Science - John Sanford
Eve and the three 'Daughters' of Noah - Rob Carter
How Textbooks Mislead - Don Batten
PLUS! TWO question and Answer sections!
And many others
Apart from these amazing sessions there were many extra activities to do.Kids were able to choose a couple of activities at the camp to do Tuesday or Wednesday afternoon; I chose to go on the twin Flying Fox.It was great fun… once I had finally climbed up the ladder and been convinced to get off the ground!I must admit I have this thing for heights.But it was great fun!
Dad, Josh and Nomi went on the giant swing too.I didn’t go, I just helped ‘push’. (Hey, I had made myself do one height-related activity that day; please don’t think I’m going to swing 18m in the air as well!)Unfortunately I don’t have access to photos right now so maybe I’ll post them later.
The food was absolutely delicious!I’m honestly telling you dessert was better every night!I had a variety of chocolate mousse, apple crumble, pavlova and cheesecake!Beautiful cheesecake too!Mmm!
I have come away with several things from this camp.
I am inspired to learn not only creation inside out but evolution like the back of my hand.I need to know the questions that I am going to be asked so I know what I need to learn.
To understand logic (Thanks Dr Sarfati!)
Advance in my passions.I heard about these scientists’ testimonies and passions – and look they are now!If I followed my passions, trusting God has given me one, and, I must say, Do Hard Things, imagine where I might end up!The possibilities are endless – for both you and I.
Dr John Sanford and Dr Rob Carter’s speeches were extremely interesting, as I have delivered a speech twice now on early man’s intelligence.Although slightly different, they both covered genetic mutations** which go along that line of thought. (**Do I sound like I’ve just come home from a science camp or what!?)This was very encouraging and inspiring to know that there is more to know on this exciting topic!
Read more books on science, and…
Learn to cook such good desserts!*afterthought*
I had an incredible time there and learnt so much.I was inspired to learn all I can about God’s incredible creation, and am grateful to all at CMI who put in such an enormous effort to make this happen, as well as all the great speeches delivered.
Coming soon to the blog:
A record of a very cool event Joshua experienced
Perhaps some articles from my notes
Never alone,
Jess
*Not always the exact title given; just an idea of the subject*
Wow, that sounds incredible! I love learning about stuff like that. It sounds like you had a really good time! I'm glad you could go, I'm sure it was a great experience.
Are you doing speech this year? Our club is getting ready for tournaments. I am only doing my humorous interp on Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It has been a lot of fun. The part I'm most nervous about is where I have to sing a couple lines of twinkle twinkle little star...I'm not much of a singer...:-) At least I got up the nerve to do it in front of our club. We break into small sections, called cell groups and I did it for mine. Yikes!!! I thought about skipping that part...
I hope you're doing well. Oh by the way those desserts sounded great;-) I love to cook and bake!
In Christ,
Christine
Friday, January 16, 2009 ~ talkorigins.org
Noted by Anonymous
A good place to check out for the evolution side is
http://talkorigins.org/indexcc/
Sounds like you had an amazing time!
I have awarded you!
Blessings,
Naomi
Thursday, January 22, 2009 ~ Hi!
Noted by Mary Andersen
Hi Jess, It's mary andersen, how are you going? I just got a bloggsite it's homeschoolblogger.com/marzypan ... Marzypan is what my friends call me I don't know why...but yeah! They also call me Gus :D Anyway chat to ya later! Luv mary
Hi and welcome to Little Miss Giggles' blog! My name is Jessica Letchford, otherwise known as Jess, who loves life and despises sleeping in. Reading, organizing, ancient history, computers, crafts, school and writing are just some of my hobbies. I also extremely enjoy singing, playing the piano and praising and worshiping our Awesome God! Because of Jesus' death and resurrection, we can choose to live life, flying the banner of love and flag of joy …so have a wonderfully fantazgreat day!
As I have moved in the blog-o-world, you can find me at JessicaLetchford.wordpress.com where I write about God, crafts, my life and organizing! Hope to see you there and God bless!
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