![]() ![]() Your monthly investment at a level that’s meaningful for you, mixed with some faith in the transformative power of Bible camp, will yield incredible results. The point is, once you get started, your gift will grow and multiply and do more than you ever imagined. In the Gospels of Matthew and Luke, it is immediately followed by the Parable of the Leaven, which shares this parable's theme of the Kingdom of Heaven growing from small beginnings. These are some fun examples of how a seed or some fermented yeast can grow and expand into something so much bigger than it began. The Parable of the Mustard Seed is one of the shorter parables of Jesus. $50 becomes $600, and provides one camper scholarship for a family with need.New Living Translation but it becomes the largest of all garden plants it grows long branches, and birds can make nests in its shade. $25 becomes $300, enough for two 2-person tents in the Boundary Waters Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.$15 becomes $180, enough for a weekend of s’mores supplies for Seeds campers at Wapo.$5 becomes $60, enough to provide a week’s worth of trail snacks for a Wilderness canoe trip.How would your gift of $5, $15, $25 or $50 a month provide seeds or yeast for the ministry that happens at Camp Wapo, Ox Lake and Wilderness Canoe Base? Yeast is a magical ingredient (it’s really a fungus) that can be activated to create carbon dioxide and alcohol and make a little lump of dough expand to many times its original size, providing enough bread to feed a crowd. A familiar sight in Palestine was a six to twelve foot mustard bush filled with a flock of birds. Although it is the smallest of all seeds, yet it grows into the largest of garden plants and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and nest in its branches.' Mark 4:31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds sown upon the earth. The parable in today’s lesson can also be found in Matthew 13:31-32 and Luke 13:18-19. ![]() Or maybe the parable of the yeast that a woman mixed in with three measures of flour until all of it was leavened, resonates with you. You will be amazed at the bridges you build. ![]() It might not be the perfect analogy, but even a few coins or dollars set aside every month over several months become enough to buy something that helps the community-so that children, youth and families can come and be safely sheltered and find a space to experience God’s love. You know the parable where Jesus says, “the realm of heaven is like a mustard seed that someone took and sowed in his field it is the smallest of all the seeds, but when it has grown it is the greatest of shrubs and becomes a tree, so that the birds of the air come and make nests in its branches?” (Matt 13:31-32) ![]()
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