New Camp officers are as follows:
President - Gene Nelson
Vice President - Art Warren
Secretary - James King
Treasurer - Gary Walker
Chaplin - Sonny Raley
Auxiliary officers:
President - Lynn Price
Vice President - Martha Phillips
Secretary/Treasurer - Gail Barkett
Chaplin - Margie McCall
Besides the elections being our primary goal for the evening, news from the state Faith Fund Coordinator, Tim Thomas was on our list. I have copied parts of his letter to all Gideons below. Please make this a part of your daily prayers and upcoming budget.
Players, Coaches, and fans all know the importance of the 4th Quarter. Many a game has been both won AND lost based on how that team plays in the 4th Quarter. Teams who were ahead, and were over confident (and eased up their effort), have fallen behind and eventually lost the game while teams that were behind (and who doubled their efforts) have caught up to, and surpassed superior opponents (winning the game at the last second).
Right now we are deep into the 4th Quarter with the Faith Fund. By the time this article gets to your house (or computer), we will only have one month left to contribute, and then we will know whether we have won or lost with respect to our yearly goal. Just so you understand the correlation, the faithful Gideons who distribute God’s Word (mostly in countries where there’s not a church on every corner and where the Name of Jesus isn’t well known) are the players in our example. The Head Coach is God, and the Assistant Coaches are the Gideon Leadership in this (as well as many other) State Associations, and WE (Gideons and Auxiliary) are the fans. I can assure you our Head Coach has well prepared our players, and the players are willing to continue on and excel in the face of adversity, fatigue, and pain, and our Assistant Coaches have managed our team in such a way as to maximize our chances of success. The question is whether or not WE are willing to continue to give our support to the Faith Fund at the end of this game (the Gideon Year) even though we have already supported the team during the entire game up to this point. You see, fans are WILLING to pay the price of admission.
Currently (at the end of March), we have already surpassed the Yearly Goal given to us LAST YEAR by Nashville in donating over $1,170,000 (Praise God). Sadly, we are not donating money for Bibles for last year and the critical 4th Quarter is upon us. As of the end of March we are still over $147,000 short of our yearly goal and need to double our efforts to reach as many as possible with the Truth of Jesus Christ (and win this game). This means that in order to meet or exceed the Faith Fund Goal for this year, we must donate roughly $74,000 in April and May. This is a goal that our Association is very capable of attaining, but one we must be willing to ‘pay the price’ to reach.
